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Timothée Chalamet Says Tom Cruise Inspired Him to Be a Better Leading Man · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Tim today Shallome returns as Paul in the upcoming Dune
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  Speaker 2: Part two. If you note a change in his performance
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  Speaker 2: in physicality from the first installment, you can thank Tom Cruise.
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  Speaker 2: Tim is a massive Cruise fan. In fact, when they
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  Speaker 2: were shooting the New Dune he went to see Top
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  Speaker 2: Gun Maverick eight times. But it was an email he
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  Speaker 2: received from Tom after Tom watched the first Dune and
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  Speaker 2: felt Tim could be better that lit a fire under him.
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  Speaker 2: Challamey tells GQ. Tom basically said, in old Hollywood, you
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  Speaker 2: would be getting dance training and fight training, and nobody's
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  Speaker 2: going to hold you to that standard today, so it's
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  Speaker 2: up to you. That email was really like a war cry.
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  Speaker 2: Dune's director Denis vi Leneuve noted the change, saying Tim
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  Speaker 2: was much more trained than in Part one and ready
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  Speaker 2: for the fighting sequences. I was impressed by his level
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  Speaker 2: of discipline. He was first on the set, always ready.
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  Speaker 2: He became for me, a real leading actor on this film.
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  Speaker 2: The words of Dune Part two's director, which hits theatre
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  Speaker 2: is March fifteenth.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.