-Welcome to the show! -Hello.
Hi. Thank you having me. -How are you?
-Good, good. Yes. -I'm so happy you're here.
-Yes. Thank you for having me.
-Happy Halloween. -Happy Halloween.
Happy Halloween, everyone. -Happy Halloween, everyone.
[ Cheers and applause ] Do you have any plans?
Will you do anything? -No, I'm gonna be at
my mom's apartment, giving candy to little people.
-Well, that's something, yeah. -It's something.
-You'll be giving out candy. And then, you grew up in city.
So is that -- Would you just sort of, like,
go, like, down the apartment hallway and whatnot?
-That's exactly -- Yeah, I grew up in a building --
I grew up, like, in a multiple-story building.
So it's weird, yeah. 'Cause I see, if I watch, like,
American pop-culture movies about Halloween,
it's in a neighborhood, it's on a street.
But I did it in a building with a row of apartments.
Not a bad thing. Just different.
-Yeah, I mean, I assume you, like, knock out way more.
I would have to go, like -- I'd have to go to five towns
to knock out as many. [ Laughter ]
-No, I had, like, sugar-intake problems growing up.
-Yes? -Yeah, I was --
-I know you have -- Do you have a favorite
Halloween costume from over the years?
-I have, like, a couple of favorites.
Like, I did Yugi from "Yu-Gi-Oh" one year.
-All right. [ Cheers and applause ]
-A couple of "Yu-Gi-Oh" enthusiasts here.
[ Laughter ] I did a -- okay.
I, like, was on the Spider-Man enthusiastic tint one year.
-Yeah, okay. -So, I just got the outfit.
But then, that, rightfully,
seemed kind of douchey or something.
Like, to just wear the outfit is kind of, like, weird.
-Yeah, that's a little show-off-y, yeah.
-No -- Yeah -- you see, okay.
But then, that was the year --
That was "Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark"
was on Broadway that year. -Yeah.
-And that was the Broadway version,
not the celebrated Tom Holland, highly profitable version.
This was -- This was, like -- They had a lot of accidents.
A lot of people were, like, getting very hurt on it.
-A lot -- Yeah There was, like, sort of
a trapeze-y type Spider-Man show,
and there were some injuries. -They were not real Spider-Men.
-Yeah. -They were real --
They were stuntmen with very real bones.
So I just -- just threw a cast on and some crutches and --
[ Laughter ] -So, you were Spider-Man --
-I was Spider-Man on Broadway. [ Laughter ]
And that -- And this is the bit
where I really should have a picture now,
and I don't know why I don't have one.
And I was so, like, I don't know, confident about it.
I have a friend from high school here with me.
And I was like, "Remember when I did the
Spider-Man, like, on Broadway thing?"
He has no idea what I'm talking about.
[ Laughter ]
-Well, I wonder if people saw it and they jumped ahead to,
one, you were doing Spider-Man on Broadway,
or if they were like, "Oh, that poor guy
broke his leg before Halloween, and he's still toughing it out."
-Yeah, so it was a little bit of that.
It was also the fact that it was spandex.
And I don't know how many spandex enthusiasts
we have in the audience, but that's a weird thing.
-Yeah. -And there's body parts
that are not used to that. [ Laughter ]
And so I was figuring that out the whole night.
-Yeah, yeah, that's a lot. -Yes.
-I'm so glad you worked through that Halloween.
-Thank you. I appreciate it.
Appreciate it. Yes.
-This is wonderful. One of the people
you're working with, who was in that clip is Joel Edgerton.
-Yes, he's be on here.
-Yeah, he's one of my favorite guys.
Was he as much fun to work with as I would think?
-A lot of fun, an extraordinary actor.
The director of this movie, Joel Edgerton,
the cinematographer, they're all Australian.
Ben Mendelsohn, another great actor.
-Yeah, Aussie! -Aussie in the house!
Okay. [ Laughter ]
And so I felt like I was jumping into this
creative Australian circus.
And -- And Joel and I, Falstaff and Prince Hal,
in the movie, they're quite close.
So we tried to get quite close in real life and hung out a lot.
We did a Q&A recently. I got in trouble
'cause I said I'd never gone out with somebody that old before.
-Yeah. [ Laughter ]
-And that was, like, no shade or anything.
But Joel is 94 -- No, no, no, Joel is --
[ Laughter ]
Yeah, anyway. It is what it is.
-It is what it is. Can't take it back.
A lot of people have commented on your haircut in the movie.
-Yeah. -That's not a wig, right?
That's the real deal. -That's real.
-Are you -- Very appropriate for the film.
Are you happy it's grown out?
-Yeah, I'm happy to be done with it.
[ Laughter ]
And, you know, the big lesson is, like, nobody cares.
And that's the lesson of life, I guess.
-Yeah. -But I don't know.
For things of hair, personality, whatever,
you think people are -- No one cares.
-Yeah. -No one cares.
-I would imagine, though, you have a haircut like this
and you're on set, and it's, you know,
all these incredible costumes, these incredible actors,
and they all have their hair and wardrobe,
and then the minute you walk off the set,
you must have a moment like, "Oh, this is a weird haircut."
-Oh, no, no, no. I have, like, an extraordinary
hat collection that -- [ Laughter ]
Yeah. So, I got good at that.
Also, like, isn't it -- Maybe I shouldn't even say this.
But isn't it true, like --
You know what? Never mind, never mind,
never mind. [ Laughter and applause ]
-It's funny, there are some people where I would push on it,
and already with you, I'm like,
"I think you're making the right call."
-Yes. -Yeah.
Whatever it is, I think you're making the right call.
This is very exciting.
You're gonna be in "Little Women."
This is a reunion. -"Little Women"!
[ Cheers and applause ]
-And the co-stars -- -And the woman warriors!
Okay. Sorry. -Saoirse Ronan, Greta Gerwig,
who you worked with on "Lady Bird."
And we've talked -- I've talked with some of your cast mates
from that film about how Greta, as a director,
tries to make everybody feel very close and welcome.
-At ease, yeah. -At ease.
They wear name tags.
And I heard she had sort of a dance party.
Or I guess a dance rehearsal... -Yes, yes.
-...for "Little Women." How did that come about?
-Well, there's two big dance sequences in the film.
One's with Meg March, who's played by Emma Watson,
and one's with Jo, who's played by Saoirse and --
Saoirse Ronan, should say her whole name.
And, basically, as an icebreaker, as a way to,
you know, lose our masks and our shields of defense,
of insecurity, Greta had us
do this dance class in this big room.
And being the only guy was not the deficit.
There maybe was no deficit.
But I will say, like, I grew up on "Harry Potter" in some way.
I grew up seeing those movies.
So that first time seeing Emma Watson --
This is gonna be weird for her to see now.
[ Laughter ]
But that was, like, definitely a weird moment,
and I had to work past that. -You worked past it, yeah.
-Yeah, yeah. -Do you think at the time --
-It was tons of therapy. It was like a lot of therapy,
but that's fine. -Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I mean, I think a lot of time, the first time people
see Emma Watson, they then have to at least
do, like, a year of therapy. -Yeah.
[ Laughter ]
-Depending on how big of a "Harry Potter" fan you are,
it might even be longer. -Yeah, I can't like --
-Do you think -- -I'm ready to wholeheartedly
agree with everything you say up here.
That was dangerous. I was like --
I don't know if I agree with that.
-This is -- It's very exciting to have you here
and so great to finally meet you.
I've been a fan for a long time.
-Yeah. -Timothée Chalamet, everybody.