{"id":137984,"date":"2025-11-16T14:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T14:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/137984\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T14:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T14:30:07","slug":"timothee-chalamet-and-adam-sandler-talk-oscars-basketball-and-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/137984\/","title":{"rendered":"Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet and Adam Sandler Talk Oscars, Basketball and Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\u2018Tis the season for star-studded awards season convos, and Saturday night delivered as Adam Sandler<\/a> and Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet met up at Fairfax High School in Los Angeles to talk both movies and ball. <\/p>\n

\n\tSeated on the school\u2019s basketball courts and brought in through a tunnel of USC cheerleaders, Chalamet and Sandler discussed first meeting on 2014\u2019s Men, Women & Children<\/a>, which the Dune star\u2019s scenes were cut out of.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI was at the [premiere] party at the Toronto Film Festival and I was sitting there and I was bummed, and you were leaving the party and you gave me a nice little shoulder pat; man, it meant a lot,\u201d Chalamet told Sandler, then recalling how the two reconnected around the time of Uncut Gems. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhen we were doing the circuit, walking around talking about Uncut Gems, you did a speech one night about Uncut Gems and you had, like, the greatest speech of the night, just pumping it up,\u201d Sandler noted. \u201cI remember seeing [director] Josh [Safdie] watching you say that speech going, \u2018Fuck, I\u2019m doing a movie with that guy.’\u201d Chalamet admitted, \u201cThat\u2019s what I was doing man, I was kissing the ring. I was trailing the Uncut Gems crew so much that Idina Menzel, the great Adele Dazeem, said to Josh, \u2018Is he in the movie?’\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThroughout the conversation \u2014 put on by Vanity Fair and centered around Chalamet\u2019s work in Safdie\u2019s Marty Supreme<\/a> and Sandler\u2019s performance in Jay Kelly<\/a> \u2014 the two reflected on their careers through a series of film clips while also bonding over their love of basketball. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe times we\u2019ve played basketball, we haven\u2019t had great luck. We played these random kids and that was rough,\u201d Chalamet remembered, as Sandler added, \u201cYou\u2019re very good, awesome. I\u2019m fine. We played these two kids, just out of nowhere they just so happened to be so fucking good.\u201d (Soon after, one turned up as Sandler\u2019s waiter on a night out). <\/p>\n

\n\tThe pair discussed moments on Saturday Night Live, as well as Chalamet shooting Call Me By Your Name, Dune (revealing he just wrapped the third film<\/a> four days ago) and A Complete Unknown; for Sandler, the Punch-Drunk Love segment was a highlight, as Chalamet gushed, \u201cTo actors across all ages but really my generation, it\u2019s one of the most important performances \u2014 impactful, deeply moving. I think because you\u2019ve ascended to such commercial heights that the people that aren\u2019t really in the know don\u2019t understand how impactful that performance was and how incredibly nuanced and deeply lived in and heartbreaking it is.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe younger star continued, \u201cHopefully Jay Kelly<\/a>, it should have been Uncut Gems \u2014 I know it\u2019s not about awards but you should have a golden man in your hand because you\u2019re one of the best fucking actors.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSpeaking of Jay Kelly, Sandler brought it back to basketball while noting he used to play with co-star George Clooney, as Chalamet responded, \u201cNo way, he balls?\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHe\u2019s great. We played ball when he hosted SNL. He took the whole cast, I think he rented out a YMCA,\u201d Sandler replied. \u201c[Chris] Farley and me and a bunch of goofy comedians, we all went and played ball with Clooney and he was fantastic.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tChalamet asked Sandler how he keeps his comedic edge with such a stable personal life, as Sandler turned the \u201chow do you do it?\u201d question back on him after seeing what he deals with in public. \u201cYou have it worse than me because you\u2019ve got so many fucking photographers following you and shit, which makes life nuts,\u201d Sandler said, as Chalamet joked that was only when the pair were playing basketball and he called the paparazzi to come to capture the moment. <\/p>\n

\n\tGetting around to Marty Supreme<\/a>, Chalamet said of his latest project that Safdie \u201cempowered me to be something I would almost be wary of being in this world and this day and age, which is to be openly aspirational and want to live out your dreams to huge heights\u2026 I feel like the gift of my life is to focus on this acting thing the way [his character] Marty Mauser is locked in on ping pong.\u201d And to bring things full circle, the two stars closed out the night with a surprise two-on-two basketball game against a pair of fans (which Chalamet and Sandler unfortunately lost).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018Tis the season for star-studded awards season convos, and Saturday night delivered as Adam Sandler and Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[43985,430,156,3685,43987,56403,111,139,69,45005],"class_list":{"0":"post-137984","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-adam-sandler","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-events","12":"tag-jay-kelly","13":"tag-marty-supreme","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz","17":"tag-timothee-chalamet"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}