Zendaya, Timothée Chalamet, and Florence Pugh Talk First Meetings, Red Carpet Highlights, and Embarrassing Moments in Off the Cuff

Have you ever been starstruck on the red carpet,

please elaborate.

[Florence blows raspberry]

Okay. [laughs]

Hi Vogue, I'm Zendaya.

I'm Florence.

I'm Timothée Chalamet.

And this is Off the Cuff.

Since when do you not say your last name?

I was really confused.

Sorry, I was gonna let you guys introduce yourselves.

I was like, Gah, my name is Florence!

What are you both listening to right now?

Flight, a lot of Flight.

This morning it was Missy Elliott.

'Cause I needed to get the vibes going, you know?

I need to get the energy up.

Was it your alarm?

It wasn't my alarm.

Could you imagine?

Work it!

You know?

Interesting fact you learnt recently.

An interesting fact?

Slept too hard last night.

We learnt a few facts about each other.

Josh Brolin was part of the Rodeo Drive athletics club.

Okay, Timothée.

What's a fun fact about you that I don't know yet?

I should've had a warmup for this.

[Zendaya laughs]

A fun fact about me is that...

[everyone laughs]

[Florence] I don't have any fun facts.

These ones are hard because when you're in the hot seat

you can't think of anything.

Can't think of anything right now.

I don't know any interesting facts.

I know, fun fact about me is I like

a really nice pair of sheets.

There you go.

There you go. [Florence laughs]

I know what you're getting for Christmas next year.

Okay.

Some wool sheets.

Okay.

The scratchiest sheets I can find.

[Florence and Zendaya laugh]

Florence, can you tell me about

the first time that we met?

I actually do remember this.

Well, there's a few times that we met.

[Timothée] I remember the first-first.

[Florence] At the awards season?

At the dinner.

Oh my God, you're gonna have to re-jog my memory.

Anyway...

No, go on, tell me.

The whole story's not appropriate,

but it was just like, I don't know, you were just like,

What are you doing?

I was?

Oh, oh, oh!

Because you were... not doing that.

What happened?

No, but it was lovely and friendly.

It was really lovely and friendly

and Florence had just done Macbeth,

and then we were gonna do Little Women together

in like six months.

That was the dinner where I got there and there was like

one camera guy in front of the restaurant

and I thought, Alright, if I sprint,

they're not gonna get me.

But then they got a picture of me with the dumbest sprint.

Where, like, I've got a double chin poking out.

I don't look athletic.

Anyway.

Oh, it's my go.

How long did it take you both to finish reading Dune?

Oh, good question.

The first time it took me a lot longer.

I've read it three times, the second time I audiobook-ed it,

I don't know if that counts.

That time I found it easier to parse through,

and the the third time I loved it through and through.

The first time, I struggled with it because it was...

The structure was just unlike anything I'd read before.

It's so big.

I mean, not the size but the world that you're imagining.

[Timothée] Yeah. Yeah.

When I met Denis for the first time,

I'd basically read like 70% of the book,

and I had annotated it really intensely

and I made sure to bring it to the meeting

so he saw little Post-Its jumping out of the book.

Trying to sell.

Trying to sell preparation. I'm a committed actor.

Yeah, and I'm halfway through Messiah,

like you, I started a little bit before this one

and felt like I can't get ahead of it yet.

It's a lot.

It's diff, yeah, it's different.

Pick one of these two accessories to add

as a staple to your everyday wardrobe.

The nose plug.

Okay.

Okay?

Or the mask-snorkel.

I would go with your nose plug.

[Zendaya] Nose plug?

I love those nose plugs.

Really?

Yeah.

As someone who wore them...

Not fun? [Timothée laughs]

But then this is just gonna be the same as the mask,

Gonna get like... That's why I love it.

Acne and stuff. I mean...

It's little plastic in your nose.

Well, I kind of already have a bit of thing in my nose.

I don't know.

[Timothée] This isn't too far from... Reality.

And I kind of like being able to wear a mask because...

Yeah, and get around and nobody can see you.

You'd go mask.

Yeah.

I'm going mask too.

Yeah, groovy.

You're going plugs.

I'll go plugs. Go plugs.

What are your favorite looks from Dune

or Dune: Part Two?

My favorite look from Dune: Part One

is Lady Jessica's blue dress.

Oh yeah!

It's the tumbling in the wind that really does it for me.

I would say my favorite...

Oh my gosh, the costumes are so good!

And I'm jealous of all of them

because I just wore the stillsuit the whole time!

Yeah, but you look great in the stillsuit.

Thanks, but you know...

I mean, the fact that you come out

and you still look fantastic, it's a joke.

[Zendaya] Thanks, I appreciate that.

Okay.

Okay, here we go.

I think it's you.

Oh, I just asked that, did I just ask that?

No, I did.

It's your go.

Okay, Florence!

Yes.

Do you have a favorite on-set moment

from working on Dune?

On the final week that I was working,

we were doing this massive ensemble scene

where, in between takes, Christopher Walken and I

would be talking about which donuts we wanted to eat.

So now, forever when I watch that scene,

I'll know that the only thing on mine and his mind

is that we're thinking about what donut

we want to say next time. [laughs]

I was genuinely too nervous to talk to him.

I was like...

Yeah, I didn't... yeah.

Hi, sir, how are you, good to see you...

You know, I couldn't, like, speak, I was too nervous.

Zendaya, what was your last day on set like?

I think my last moment on set

is my last moments in the movie.

[Florence] Really?

That was the last thing that I shot, so I mean...

Everybody came, because we were, you know,

obviously in the middle of the desert

and it was a beautiful sunset happening,

and everybody came and everybody was crying.

It was emotional, and it was bittersweet,

and all the things that I think your wrap day is.

I'm gonna do this one again, 'cause I like this.

Can either of you tell me what this still is from?

Oh, God.

No.

One of my first YouTube videos, moving on!

Moving on!

[Timothée] Very sweet.

I can't get into that YouTube...

I haven't, you know... we'll see.

Does it still exist?

Oh yeah.

If you would ever like to just laugh.

Go ahead, find it. Aw...

[Florence] Timothée, do you remember

what your first day on set was like?

My first day on set.

They had already started shooting

and I was coming from, like, Willy Wonka land,

so I remember coming to set...

I was visiting, and there was like

a slow push in of a Harkonnen.

And I remember just like...

[Florence] Complete different worlds.

Yeah, I walked back to my trailer, I was like Holy shit,

I'm really back in 'Dune' universe.

And just having to recalibrate,

and not go to the mental hospital,

'cause it was just, like, such a culture shock

to go from a very cheery, colorful, happy,

chocolate landscape, to like a very intense sci-fi universe.

Followup question, who said the line

This is a place for happy, smiley faces

and lots of love and dancing?

Why are we still bringing these up?

Moving on!

Moving on!

I actually think it was your go, so you cheated.

Yeah.

What about this picture?

What is this from?

That's from ModdedController360,

YouTube dot com backslash...

Is this you?

That's me when I sold controllers...

It's his custom...

That's custom red tiger, baby.

With nail varnish?

No, with spray paint.

Until my parents were like, You're ruining the apartment.

Spray paint chips everywhere, smells like shit.

Okay, when can we expect a new video from Mod...

ModdedController360.

Well, jobless for now.

You know, acting's going well, but if it ever goes south,

you'll see me modding controllers once more.

Oh, this is a good one!

Do you have a terrible audition experience?

Absolutely.

Absolutely, White Boy Rick.

[Zendaya laughs]

Have you seen that movie?

I know the movie, yeah.

I went in there, I was like, This is it.

This is it.

Yann Demange is the director,

and I run into him enough times,

he's like, Stop telling that story, man.

He's like, Your career's great.

You don't need to keep bringing it up.

And it was brutal, 'cause I prepped it so hard,

and from the second I opened my mouth...

I was like, This is not for me.

What about when you have to react to explosions,

and then that's it.

I feel like I was a beast at that.

I was always really bad at that.

I would place it in different parts of the room,

you know what was going on?

Yeah, in my bedroom it looked great.

But when I was in front of, like, five people,

and someone's texting their, like...

Absolutely, or like eating a salad or someone, you know...

Or getting to go and pick up the phone in the next room.

Sorry, I'm just gonna go and get that.

I'm like, Okay!

I came with Skittles once,

and a casting director was like,

You know Skittles rot your teeth?

Oh, great.

Thank you, mum.

Didn't get that one.

Didn't get that one, didn't get that one.

Have you ever been starstruck on the red carpet,

please elaborate.

Starstruck like not been able to speak?

Not quite...

I don't think so, I think I'm just more excited

to meet them.

But I really... I've never been, like, a weirdo

in front of someone, and I'm really happy

that I've never been a weirdo in front of someone.

What about you?

I don't know.

On a red carpet, I don't think I've ever had

that specific experience.

I lied, the other night, Oprah.

Oh, okay, there you go.

Yeah, I walked past her and I went

Oh my God it's... Hi!

And she was like, Oh my God, this crazy person.

Okay, these are quick.

Coffee or tea?

Coffee, for sure.

Tea.

You know, I've been getting into it.

Yes?

With the milk?

Yes, with milk and sugar.

Because I'm a child.

New York or LA?

New York.

I get the best out of both.

By going to both.

Okay.

I'll let you have that.

LA or London?

Same but...

It's different.

Okay here's a good one, going out or staying in?

Staying in.

I knew that.

What about you, Flo?

Both.

I got a good one.

Can you guess where this look is from?

I can.

That's Zendaya's Met Ball, she had the auburn hair...

Auburn!

[Florence] Beautiful.

Here we go.

Morning or night?

Night, for sure.

Definitely night, yeah.

This says Do you have a favorite press look

for 'Dune: Part One'?

I liked Zendaya's Paris look, the Aaliyah.

Yeah, you both looked amazing for that press tour.

We're excited to have all of you guys join us now.

It's gonna be dangerous.

We have more.

Reinforcements.

It's gonna be amazing.

It's gonna be lot of fabric.

Lotta fabric, a lot of looks being served.

Thank you so much for hanging out with us,

and we hope you enjoy Dune

just as much as we enjoyed making it, right?

Oh yeah.

Very much enjoyed the process.

[everyone laughs]

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