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Explore Timothée Chalamet's New York roots, Knick fandom, and acting philosophy on "7pm in Brooklyn." Discussing his indie film "Marty Supreme," deep dives into NYC culture, hip-hop, and his artistic inspirations.
Published December 15, 2025
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SPEAKER_08: One of my first games as I was 10 years old, Denver Nuggets versus New York Knicks.
SPEAKER_06: Marty Collins? SPEAKER_06: Marty Collins.
SPEAKER_06: If you watch the footage of Marty, we would never speak about that again.
SPEAKER_08: If you look at the footage, it's the way the garden used to be. Now the tunnels are on the corners. It used to be in the middle.
SPEAKER_08: I snuck down with my buddy Brett. We're on the tunnel exits.
SPEAKER_08: You can see the players getting, and it's very pixelated on the footage, but you can see a little kid going nuts on the players. That was me.
SPEAKER_08: You know, that was a crazy game to be at. Yeah, it was a crazy time.
SPEAKER_03: Yo, peace. Welcome back to 7 p.m. in Brooklyn. I'm Carmelo Anthony here with my co-host. SPEAKER_02: It's your boy, The Kid Mero, The Human Durag Flap. We here, baby. SPEAKER_05: You know what it is. My name is Kazeem Famuide. You can call me Kaz, and this is a Wave original presented by FanDuel, the official sports betting partner of the NBA. Mero, talk to him.
SPEAKER_07: Yo, Kaz, hold on a second, Mero. Hold on, hold on. SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah. You know what I'm saying? This is a very important situation. This is a moment right here. Today in the hook, we got the guy, him. You know what I'm saying? Marty Supreme, a.k.a. the new Spike Lee. You know what I'm saying? A.k.a. 31st Street Superfan. You know what I'm saying? A.k.a. Mr. Quartzide Couture. You feel me? You see her drip. It's Immaculate. A.k.a. Prince of the Garden. You know what I'm saying? Your favorite actor's favorite actor. You know what I'm saying? It don't matter if the shit is color corrected or not. You know what I'm saying? He's going to shine. The mad man of MSG. You know what I'm saying? A.k.a. And I ain't talking about Chinese food neither, god damn it. You know what I'm saying? A.k.a. The Hell's Kitchen hero, the man who ditched the Megala for the Mecca, Mr. W-T-O-Y, white boy of the motherfucking year, TV TV, TV show members in the building, in the hook, baby.
SPEAKER_00: A.k.a. SPEAKER_03: It's in the building. Welcome to the hook. Timothy, man. We appreciate you. Yes, sir. What's going on, boy? You need to roll with me, man.
SPEAKER_08: I need that intro everywhere. The new Spike Lee. Man, I can't have beef with Spike Lee. It's a healthy celebrity roar.
SPEAKER_03: Spike going to pass the torch. You're going to pass the torch for sure. SPEAKER_08: I saw Bill Simmons press him. I thought, man, don't press Spike, man. he's the he's the he's the Knicks mega fan you know but I'm I'm coming in hot I'm a close second hey man thank you guys so much for having me man I'm like what a blessing to be here you know as I said to Melo coming off this white boy of the year uh that's some funny shit right there from Anthony Edwards yes but I took that seriously you know that's what I'm saying you know I was in Brownsville last night doing uh Drewski could have been record so I'm gonna carry this confidence till reality so till you know
SPEAKER_03: Hold up, you were in Brownsville last night? SPEAKER_08: I'm saying yep doing could have been records and uh, you know I wanted to talk about this with you guys because like even growing up in New York you said Hell's Kitchen Hero that was an unbelievable intro man please like come on you know what time it is that's gonna be my ringtone man maybe we should talk about it more organically but I was thinking like even in being in Brownsville last night Hell's Kitchen is a weird place to grow up because I had a lot of friends that had more money, you know, but then I had a lot of friends that had less money too and then being in Brownsville last night too I'm like wow this is like man this is the sticks, you know this is maybe you guys are going to cut this part I don't know but I was like wow this is uh this is some shit you know, yeah, nah
SPEAKER_05: If you've never been to Brownsville before, even even for, you know, long-time New Yorkers, like, yeah. SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yo, listen, bro. I'm from the Bronx and even growing up in the Bronx, I was like, yo, Brooklyn is different. Like, yo, that's another, it's another planet over there. I'm only just getting the experience.
SPEAKER_03: You know, I gotta take a different color train. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Brownsville is, is one of those places, you know, home of the brave. It's, it's, it's the home of the brave. They call that for a reason. So, you know, going over there's a different experience, a New York experience. You get a New York experience, you get a Brooklyn experience, you get a Brownsville experience. It's something totally different. And I have family that grew up in Brownsville, and Brownsville houses, my dad grew up six floor and all, you know what I mean, six F and all of that. Like, Mike Tyson, Riddick, but all of those guys, you know what I'm saying? Zab Judah. So when you think about the greatness that comes out of Brownsville too, and the culture that comes out of Brownsville, and the culture that's still there, it gives you a whole different perspective of Brownsville. Now, don't get me wrong, Brownsville is fucked up. But then you have, you have a, you have a culture in Brownsville that is so connected to each other, and everybody amongst Brownsville, that if you ain't from Brownsville, yeah, stay the fuck away from Brownsville.
SPEAKER_08: That's how it felt. I was like, man, what, you know, and is Ron Artest from Brownsville or no?
SPEAKER_02: Queensbridge. All right, all right, all right. But I've been trying to tell people like you.
SPEAKER_03: You a New Yorker? Hold on. Ron Artest was over, could have been records. No, he was, I just remember. SPEAKER_08: Like I remember him telling a story about the YMCA growing up, you know, he saw a guy put a, the leg of a table through another guy's chest playing basketball, like, like crazy story. And in my ignorance, I was in Brownsville last night, and I was like, this is where Ron Artest was talking about.
SPEAKER_03: Ron Artest was talking about project story. Yeah, there's project stories, and then there's hood stories. Uh-huh. SPEAKER_08: I get that. Off the side. I was 15. 15 years later, I'd be here and Melo would be saying there's hood stories and there's project stories. Actually, clarify that for me, because I don't, what's the difference? SPEAKER_03: So the way that, project stories is totally different. It's a totally different experience. You, you talking about living in a box, you talk about living within four walls, you talk about two, three bedroom apartments, six, seven people in the apartment, sharing food, you know, it's a different experience. You ride the top of the elevators. This is shit that we used to do back in the day. Ride the top of the elevators, play football and tag on the roof. This is project shit, you know what I mean? It's a maze when you're in the project, you got to figure it out. You imagine, you on one floor with a killer, the biggest drug dealer, and then you got the nicest football player, yeah, and you got the nicest basketball player. This is, you got teachers, everybody is in this one building. Six rappers, you know what I mean? So you have all of these different life experiences in this building as opposed to on the street in the hood. You have a hood stories, you know what I mean? As in the hood's a little better or easier, it's all the same shit. It's just, you live in vertical now, right? You living in this, this, this rectangle with a hundred apartments in there on five floors. SPEAKER_02: It's like, it's like a hood within a hood. It's a prison. It's a prison when you really think about.
SPEAKER_05: Both said to call a project a project, you know, that's why they call it that, man.
SPEAKER_08: Yo, remember that earlier? Yo, uh, I didn't mean to laugh. Sorry. I didn't mean to laugh. SPEAKER_05: No, please laugh. It's, it's the tequila shot was hitting. I'm looking at Carmelo Anthony. He's going a killer, the greatest basketball player. I'm trying to stay focused.
SPEAKER_05: You know, but that's, but that's exactly why I'll be, I was really Brownsville star of Timothee Chalamet coming in 2028. You're writing the shit right there. SPEAKER_03: That's right there. Is exactly why, man. Show some love. Yeah, please, please.
SPEAKER_01: Because you're a real New, you're a New York City guy. You're trying to front like you're not. SPEAKER_08: But when I was in Brownsville last night, all right, I went, okay, maybe my, you know, my simulation hit the wall. I was like, I've never been here. Maybe I'm not New York. You know, I was like, because that was a whole new experience. I also didn't know Drewski said come do the Brooklyn could have been records. So I said, and I'm in the car, and I was like, holy shit, man, we're in East New York. I was like, you know, I just hadn't been there. You know, something totally different. Yeah. Then. SPEAKER_03: Then Brownsville. Yeah. I'm totally different. Yeah, man. Yeah, that's, that's, that's one of the big. SPEAKER_05: Reasons why that's Brownsville 101. I'm about to say, yeah. Hood and Project Etiquette from Mellow and Tim. Um, but this is a big reason why we really want you on the show, man, because you, you are a try and true New Yorker and like the internet footprint is out there. Like we see you winning, you know, trivia contests at the garden, like, yes, me and Landry Fields to get like tickets, Andy Routens, Andy Routens. You are, you are a real deal New Yorker and a die-hard Nick fan. LaGuardia, LaGuardia, you already know. Not the airport. So I gotta ask you, man, what, what hits harder for you or those moments now when he could sit courtside? It's both. That's why I don't cherish anything more in my new life than my my garden access, of course.
SPEAKER_08: Because, yeah, just growing up and waiting for those tickets. And uh, you know, basically the summer I was 12 years old or 13 years old, I booked a Disney commercial because I was a child actor. So I made a couple thousand dollars and I bought the cheapest season tickets I could find thinking LeBron was coming to the Knicks. And I thought, okay, I'm gonna flip these for double or three times. Then he didn't come, but Amari came. So I was basically able to sell them at face value and I would, I would, you know, I grew up on 43rd and 9th. So I'd run down in the garden, I would scalp them to the scalpers. Yeah. And, uh, they were $25 a ticket, but then I would go to as many games as possible. You know, and my whole life, my my grandma was a huge Knicks fan. So that's what turned me on to them. And if you, if you live in New York, you are a Knicks fan. You know, my grandma had a New York Giants teddy bear and a New York Jets teddy bear, but she only had a New York Knicks teddy bear. You know, no disrespect to Nets fans, but if you're a Nets fan, yeah.
SPEAKER_08: But, uh, but that's what made me a fan. And like, and I went to as many games when I could afford a ticket growing up. And actually, I remember this on the way here, one of my first games, as I was 10 years old, Denver Nuggets versus New York Knicks, Marty Collins.
SPEAKER_05: We would never speak about that. Marty, you gotta understand, bro. We gotta talk about it again. SPEAKER_08: If you look at the footage, because the way the garden used to be, now the tunnels are on the corners, it used to be in the middle. Yeah. I snuck down with my buddy Brett, and we're on the tunnel exits. You can see the players getting, and it's very pixelated on the footage, but you can see a little kid going nuts on the player. So that was me. You know, but, uh, that was a crazy game to be at.
SPEAKER_01: There. It was a crazy time. Yeah, no comment, no comment. You see stuff Marty be like, yo, I want him on my team. SPEAKER_08: Yeah, exactly. When you go get him. Oh, absolutely. But it's crazy when you came, people forgot about it like that. Yeah, no one ever brought it up again. Yeah, I think we forgot about it. I think that was part of the war. I think that's why we wanted them too. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, they felt the grit. That was New York shit. Yo, what the fuck you say? Look the fuck out of the air. That was nut ass shit.
SPEAKER_08: That was that was amazing. I miss those Denver jerseys. The light blue, the silk, the silk. They don't make them like that anymore. I try to find them on eBay, but they don't, they don't hold up well over time. They're all wrinkled.
SPEAKER_01: Exactly. I might have one for you. Please, bro. My, my, my, my. SPEAKER_03: Got a stack at the crib. But you find out you got. Those are very specific. Yeah, that was only your first couple years, I want to say. Yeah, those are different. Don't even make them with that material anymore. SPEAKER_02: It was like, it's like it was heavy as shit. No way. Dress clothes. I have something for you, please. Yeah, cuz I only after the first three years on the Nuggets. I don't think they did them anymore. SPEAKER_08: No, they started switching companies. Why did they go away from the light blue? There's some of these NBA rebrands. I don't want to get in trouble. I saw my tickets to the garden on that. But some of the rebrands are like terrible. Ever see one of the pictures where it has like the logos from the 90s and the logos? And there used to be way better.
SPEAKER_03: Oh my god, it's too fun. It's, you know, I enjoy like the pushing it forward and, you know what I mean, moving it forward. But then it becomes, it's too fun. Like where we're like, the brands are supposed to be the brands. The logo, it's the Knicks. B. Don't give me no weirdo crazy shit. SPEAKER_02: Look, yeah, I mean, to his point, there's some other teams out there that you be like, damn, why they, why they fucking with the colors, or why they fucking with the road, or this, or that. So it is, I understand what he's saying. That Mavs graffiti jersey was nasty. Yeah, nastiest, bro. Please pull that up. Last night, that is the nest. That was they were like Mavs and like neon green like bubble letters. That shit look crazy. I was like, yo, nasty jersey hall of fame without a player on it.
SPEAKER_05: Yo, Tim, one of the, one of the moments that I think solidified you to Knicks fans everywhere is when you, you, you curve the Met Gala to watch the Knicks. Yeah. Like the night where everybody's waiting to see the biggest stars, probably the most industry thing you could possibly do, and like every other Knicks sicko, you was locked in. SPEAKER_08: No, I had to be locked in, man. I mean, that, that Knicks run last year was the most fun, uh, not just being a fan, I think that was the most fun period of my life. Yeah, those four months. I mean, I'm not even kidding, like that was just the garden being electric. Seeing Melo, I met Melo briefly courtside, seeing Stefan Marbury there. I love Stefan, he's got a soft spot in my heart, you know, and even though the team didn't go to the heights they wanted, Stefan is New York. Yeah, the way Sebastian Telfair is New York. Yeah, Sebastian Telfair. I just watched the video of him, he's going through a lot of challenging stuff. But, you know, and seeing all the legends there, JR and Brunson and Kat, and I feel like Brunson is sort of like the perfect anti-superstar to New York because I feel like he just bodies. He's got a Jeter like quality. Yeah, yeah, he's very just like.
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SPEAKER_08: Tell me about that first game against the Bucks when you were on the Knicks. Oh, they had, I'm coming home. Playing. Delete that part. And you know what that feeling like? You know, coming back. I remember being there. Oh, you was there. Yeah, against the Bucks. And then Chauncey was there too. SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah, yeah. The irony in that game right with Chauncey coming home, like Puff, like it was, you know what I mean? It was a, it was a moment. When I came, mind you, it was six o'clock in the morning when you got the call. No, when I landed in New York and had to go play that night. I was coming from All-Star weekend in LA and I got the call that I think that's Sunday night, though. That Monday night, I got the call. Everything happened. I wound up in New York. They like, yo, you can play in a couple days. I'm like, nah, we gonna play. I wanna play the first game. Shit, like I get your physical, you got to do this. I'm six o'clock flying. I don't have no place to stay. Family with me. We standing in the hotel. Like I ain't even check in yet. Fresh off the plane, go do my physical, shoot around, walk through. I don't got my sneakers. I'm still in Denver Nuggets sneakers. I'm in the white and I think the navy mellows at this point. It's I don't even have my sleeves, my sleeves is off. You know, if you look at the game, I got a thing, I have one sleeve on. I look nasty out there. We got the royal blue uniforms on and headband. Shit was just fucked up. I'm so tired. In the back in the locker room throughout the whole, throughout the whole day, media frenzy, and they they like, all right, we gonna let you come out. We gotta, we gonna surprise them and come out a different way. They like, you go, we gonna play. I'm coming home, right? But I'm thinking about, you know, the original, I'm coming home. Like that's the, you know, that's a classic. Well, I don't know the original. What's the original? I'm coming home. Like that's the, you know, it was a, you know, Puff did the, yeah, yeah, the sample. So, and that's all you hear. And they played it. They put the put it on the screen, but mind you, I can't see shit. It's supposed to be like a reveal, like a, you know what I mean? Come out so I can't see. I can't see shit, but I hear it goes black and I see the screen and all I hear is the kind of like the monologue or the audio of my voice and then in the city, and then it drops. I'm coming home. I'm coming home. Tell the world. Like that shit gave me goosebumps. All the tiredness went out the window, the fatigue, the tired legs, everything went out the window. And I just was, I locked into to that moment. I didn't know plays. The only plays I knew is shit that I knew from studying the game and watching the Knicks play and, you know, just studying the basketball. That's the only play I knew. Sets, but I ain't really know how to execute their sets like that. So I'm coming in just chick on my head. Cut off. But that song right there will forever, forever mean something to me. And the fact that you was in the building that night. Oh, man.
SPEAKER_03: What were your seats that night? SPEAKER_08: They were, I had, he was scalping the tickets. It was those, it was the top ones, but I would always find a way down, you know.
SPEAKER_03: So that was an amazing night. Nah, yeah, yeah, that was a beautiful night. That love, that response, because it wasn't really love at that point, you know, it was just, okay, we got somebody that's one of our own, and okay, let's go. Now, so it was just excitement, you know what I mean? It was just the excitement of another piece of another energy coming into New York.
SPEAKER_08: Actually, I got another good question for you. A theory. I feel like playoff basketball in New York, I don't know if it's that the fans are so close to the court or something because I think I literally think if you go to like a game at Crypto, the baseline is further at Crypto than it is. A little more space. Do you think sometimes I feel like the fans are so intense in New York supporting, and like, do you think it gets in the players' heads sometimes? Because I feel like you watch an OKC Thunder game, it's as intense, the home, the home crowd, but something about that New York grit, it doesn't seem as like it gets in their heads as much. And I feel like I've watched New York playoff basketball games sometimes, especially being there now, I'm like, wow, this is so intense on the players. Do you think it's harder in New York to play for, for the Knicks? Um, not harder in a bad way, but just like more.
SPEAKER_03: Intense than if you were playing for OKC or Indiana? Yeah, it's, what, what New York does is, it keeps you on point. Like, it, it keeps you reminded that I have to be my, I have to do my best and I have to be the best. So if you embrace that, it, you want, you're gonna be good because you're gonna do what you have to do to be the best every single night. But when you don't embrace that and you just, I'm gonna go through the motions and I'm gonna just be cool and okay, I'm gonna play this, you can't treat New York like you could treat any other city when it comes to performance. You can't do that. Performing in Utah or Milwaukee is a lot different than performing in New York. Even performing in Miami and performing in Dallas is different than performing in New York. New York is a performance-based community to the world. So when you come, when you play and you perform, you got to bring your A-game. So New York keeps you on that edge. It's just most people who don't, who have limitations, who can't perform on a night-to-night basis.
SPEAKER_08: But do you feel like that also puts the team in a disadvantage that all the away teams are always coming into here? SPEAKER_03: I mean, a disadvantage, you could look at it as a disadvantage, or you could look at it as a challenge, right? Prior to when I got there, right, they was looking at it as an a disadvantage. When I got there, my goal was to try to change that mindset. When motherfuckers coming to this garden, they got to know what time it is. It's showtime. When we, when it's coming to this garden, like, and you had to have a different mindset coming into this garden. It wasn't no, oh, we coming in the garden, getting 30, getting 40, getting 50s. Like, no, we, we nobody's coming in our court doing that type of shit. So it was a, you know, it again, it was a culture that was that was created from that. But I do believe that there's other tough arenas to play in. Like, it's tough to play in OKC. It was tough to play in Utah. Utah was like a high school gym, like a college gym where the fans is right here. That's the court, the fans is right here. I could trip my foot out and, you know, and fuck you up on the court. If you make a wrong move, you might trip over my ankle. Like in Utah, it was, it's a lot different. Sacramento, right? Arco Arena, the old Arco Arena. Cowbells, cowbells. It was the worst shit to be a part of. The worst arena to play in because it was a, it just like a pit, right? So the garden is the garden. You know, I mean, this is this is the mecca. This is performance. You got to show out. You know, you're on stage. Literally, which is why, you know, all the love and excitement and visuals go to you now because you are the fan base. You are the face of to that next generation. The way that we look at Spike Lee, this next generation is gonna look at you when they talk about the Knicks. You gotta be at every game. Jam. Hey, absolutely. If you need somebody so fuck them award shows and I'm just kidding. But while we on sports, man, you, you interviewed Kendrick ahead of the Super Bowl last year. Like, what stuck with you with that conversation?
SPEAKER_08: What stuck with me honestly was, I feel like being a fan of sports, I look at things with an athletic background, acting that is. And I like to, not that I'm competitive, but I like to see what my peers are doing. But everything's very friendly at the end of the day, when you see other actors that worship. And really, my big takeaway from Kendrick's was it was during all the huge beef last year. I was just so amazed, like I was so impressed that this man who was so calm sitting next to me, and I was like, wow, he's engaged in a gladiator sport right now. And as much as I love hip-hop and all this, I was sitting next, I was like, wow, I could not do that. You know, to be that, I don't know, like his calmness, I don't know if I'm doing a good job describing it. I was just like, I couldn't believe his, I couldn't believe like you could be that big at war with somebody that big and go about your life. You know, just be chilling. Yeah, that was just unfathomable. Unfathomable to me. Otherwise, he's a, he's, uh, somebody I grew up listening to, and I just appreciated him, you know, just getting the opportunity to do it. You know, and I joke about the white boy of the year stuff and all that, but it's a fine line to walk, you know. I want to be respectful and all the shit you're supposed to say, blah, blah, blah. But really, I'm just a fan. You know, I'm a fan of black culture and hip-hop and all of it. And how could you be, you know, a child of American culture without being influenced by it? So it's a fine line between, you know, especially growing up in New York City, dog.
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, this is the birthplace of hip-hop. The birthplace of that type of culture. Yeah, you immersed in it. That's what I've always said too. It's like when you're, when you're 10 years old or 12 years old, if I'm a Melo fan, or if I'm a Soulja Boy fan, or whatever, I'm like, you know.
SPEAKER_06: He laughed, this, put some respect on Soulja Boy's thing. Yeah. Come on. SPEAKER_03: You know how much. If you can, bro. Stop playing on Soulja Boy. SPEAKER_08: About being on your head now. Yeah, I just, I just want to think, whatever he came up with, you know what I'm saying? His generation is. SPEAKER_02: Yeah, Soulja Boy was you, you know what I mean? Yeah. No, he was the first. That's what he was doing. Yeah. And the first internet superstar.
SPEAKER_08: And, uh, and now I was talking about with Drewski yesterday, you know, I was going yumshoes.com trying to get the the newest yums releases. But anyway, when you're growing up, you're not thinking, oh, is this appropriate? I don't know. And I think then in a position of celebrity and all that, then you, you got to watch your step more. But I feel like I've been having too much fun. That's what's great about the Knicks. Even like the Knicks is like, it's the city's team, man. It's the city's team.
SPEAKER_02: You're not lying, bro. It's like New York and LA got that in common that when you go to those games, you see New York people. Like, you know what I'm saying? You see, you, you know what I'm saying? Like, you'll see like, you, you know, there's a lot of in New York Puerto Ricans. You know, so we got one right here. You know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_08: Is that true, bro? I didn't know that. Yeah, yeah. You got to see the time. How did I not know that? Yeah, very large community in New York. Bad Bunny's having a generational run. Absolutely huge. And you'll be one of them guys that's next to them guys at the garden. Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_02: What do y'all like? I thought you're gonna say, you're one of the guys. Big in Puerto Rico? Really? Alternate universe that'd be amazing. That's my dream.
SPEAKER_08: Listen, man. Listen, growing up in New York will afford you that. You know, yeah, absolutely. Like, yo, I went to high school with 16 Puerto Ricans. We was a homeroom together. They put me on it. It's a mass flow, too.
SPEAKER_05: And I gotta say, another thing that helps you out. Another thing that helps you out is that like, a lot of times, especially the, the comments on black culture and being respectful and all that. Yeah, like the internet footprint turns out to be bad. Like you look at people's old tweets and old videos and like, oh, this the guy that y'all saying the culture f's with and all that stuff. And all the stuff we see from you in the past is like, you got Lil B blessing you at school. You got like, oh yeah, you dance into like Nicki Minaj records. You know, I went to the same high school as Nicki. Was the queen of LaGuardia. Yeah, it's like, it's all these things. That's what I mean. Feel like in my 20s, I was made to be more self-conscious about shit that in my teenage years. Yeah, especially you grew up in New York. You a nut. When you grow up in New York, you know, on the subways, on New Year's Eve, going crazy. I was like, you know, on the subway, you got like some old lady grinding on you. You know, like that's an actual memory I have. And, um, you know, so I appreciate you saying that. And if anybody ever, you know, comes at me, I'll just clip that. There you go. And I'll clip the intro.
SPEAKER_08: All in one building.
SPEAKER_04: Oh, man. But like I'm saying. SPEAKER_08: They don't have an angle on you here. I wish one of the most surreal things ever that happened to me, because your face was dead serious. SPEAKER_02: He said it's a peace guy, bro. He'd be dead ass. You know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_08: Can I get one more shot? Because that was nice to have. Yeah, come on, please. That was nice. SPEAKER_05: You can do whatever you want here, man. SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it's a clubhouse, man.
SPEAKER_05: But while the shots get set up though, like sitting next to Bad Bunny at the Garden, doing the stuff that we did with Kendrick last year, you know what I'm saying? Like he got the, he got the halftime show this year. Is there anything that you're like, yo, he say, like, hey Timoteo, I'm gonna do some fly shit, man? SPEAKER_08: Bro, I would, I would do it in a second, man. I would do it in a second. But a lot of this shit last year.
SPEAKER_01: Thank you. Yup. SPEAKER_08: Yup. Yup. I'm waiting for you guys that you know, a lot of the great, like there was no plan to any of that. Even the Kendrick thing was like a day before thing. Actually, I did the interview with Kendrick in a studio for a day. We did 30 minutes and it was very, there was no time really to do it and it was very stiff and I actually went home. I was a little. SPEAKER_01: Cheers. Bro. Oh, no, it's good. SPEAKER_00: They're coming around. They're coming around. SPEAKER_08: Are you guys gonna have another one? SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I mean. SPEAKER_08: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Damn. Melo straight. Oh, man, I'm gonna do it too. That was a real shot. That time. But none of that, none of that is planned. I feel like people can smell when stuff is planned or whatever. Oh, but the thing with Kendrick, I did it in the studio and it was kind of stiff and I went home a little sad because I was like, man, I feel like we really could have got a good rhythm and maybe he's just in Super Bowl mode and then he called and he was like, all right, let's just meet you in a car and let's just roll. SPEAKER_08: I was like, all right, let's do it in the GNX. You know, and then my white ass, I was like, wow, he's in the middle of this beef. I was like, can you imagine if this is how I go out? Like Kendrick, well, you thought. SPEAKER_04: It's some crazy. You thought some crazy. SPEAKER_08: Actor Timothee Chalmers murder her. That would be crazy. End of the Wikipedia. Yeah, he was taken out as a. So we'd be on the show and we'd be like. SPEAKER_03: Tim got murdered. Tim got murdered. Listen to Jen next.
SPEAKER_05: But let me tell you something. I think the reason why that parallel worked was because of that speech you had. I think it was at the SAG Awards, yeah. Pretty much. That was amazing. That was such a fire speech because a lot of people get in that spot and they're very like, you know, humble and happy to be here type of thing. And you spoke like an athlete. You spoke like a competitor. Like you, and you mentioned the athletes that you were inspired by in that speech. So like seeing you and Kendrick, you know, had that Super Bowl moment, kind of made a lot of sense because the way he approached this beef and this battle was a very competitive thing. And I think it's dope that you make no bones about wanting to be like, yeah, I want to be one of the greatest to ever do this. I want to, I look up to Michael Jordan and Michael Phelps just as much as I look up to like Daniel Day-Lewis. All that type of stuff. So yeah.
SPEAKER_05: How do you use that and, you know, we watched the new movie that came out, Marty Supreme. That competitive edge in acting? Like how do you use that in just everyday life and how do you use that to continue to. SPEAKER_08: Well, Marty Supreme is about the pursuit of greatness. That's what this movie is about. It's about ambition. It's about having a dream at a time where it's hard to have a dream, you know? For that kind of speech, it's just about recontextualizing. I feel like the environment I'm in because you think about De Niro, you think about Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis. Those are the greats. The way Michael Jordan's a great. But people don't want to make room for the greats today because the nostalgia is so thick. SPEAKER_05: Right. SPEAKER_08: And Marty Supreme is the culmination of that. It is about a guy who won't take no for an answer. It's about being an idiot in your 20s. It's about not taking no for an answer from anyone and about being the greatest at something. Not necessarily the greatest at basketball like Melo, or fame and stuff like that, because it's about ping pong. But you know, about pursuing your greatness and not being ashamed about it.
SPEAKER_03: When they say you can be great at whatever, right? You can be the greatest ping pong player. You can be the greatest basketball player. You can be the greatest fireman. You can be the greatest leather maker. You can be, you know, matter of fact, you can be the greatest at that. It's just a matter of what is success to you? What is great to you? If you're in that industry, then what is the great in this industry? If I'm making tea, who's the greatest tea maker? In the shout out to the tea. See how I'm. Saying that? And it says, be kind to yourself. You know what I mean? That's the second tea moment right there. That's another segment. But when you talk about greats in every industry, you should look at who's the greatest in that industry. And not say, oh, I'm in this industry, but I want to be great like somebody in that industry. No, because the successes might not, might not be the same.
SPEAKER_08: That's why The Last Dance was the most influential piece of art from Marty Supreme, more than any other movie or whatever. But the Jordan tenacity, the pursuit of greatness, even the fact that he's an asshole, you know, at a time too. Speaking about cultural sensitivity of liking hip hop and all that. Also cultural sensitivity about like, oh, you know, you don't want anything to leak from a set that you were being too intense, whatever. But then you see The Last Dance, so wait a second, this guy was, he was intense. You know, same thing with Kobe, you know, but then Kobe, he won an Oscar. I met him briefly, he was nice at the party. I don't know what he was like with Jeremy Lin at practice, but, you know.
SPEAKER_08: But, you know, like you just said, and it could be in anything. That's why we're doing these merch jackets right now. We're trying to get people from greatness in every category. So Bill Nye is the greatest of science, so we want to get Bill Nye in it. Or Michael Phelps, like you just said, or Tom Brady, you know, really the GOATs. And, you know, I don't know. I know you have kids, but like, people are so nonchalant now, you know, that's like the word everyone uses. And it's cool to be nonchalant, it's kind of like punk. But what happened? I think about the hip hop I grew up on, it was so aspirational and ambitious, you know, shamelessly. And now it's like punk rock, which is cool too, that's their music, you know, but I like the, I go back now, I listen to like 2011 hip hop. I'm like, ah, this was like Thug Motivation. And everyone's role was clear. Kendrick's role was clear. J. Cole represented something else. I want to shout somebody else out, but they're, you know, it's controversial to shout them out now, but, you know.
SPEAKER_05: I'll shout them out. SPEAKER_08: I can't. I can't. I can't. SPEAKER_08: You're talking about Kanye. SPEAKER_05: You're talking about Kanye. SPEAKER_00: It's Kanye. It's Kanye, guys. SPEAKER_04: It's Kanye. I can't.
SPEAKER_04: Next. I'll say it for you. It was 2010. It was a lockout year. It was a lockout year. Lockout year, 11, 20, 21. That was a lockout year. SPEAKER_06: That was a lockout year. A lot of shit was going on. He was missing basketball.
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, but with you being such a sports fan, like, do you tap in with any players for guidance? Like study their, you know, kind of this anybody's mindset? SPEAKER_08: This is the honest answer. I like that question. It's hard to be friends with athletes. I feel like because at this point in my life, even at 29, it brings me back to school a little bit. And I was ultimately an arts kid. I was a theater kid. So I wasn't really in with the sports kids. It was a different sort of circle, circle. Yeah. And a little more machismo. So as much as I give that SAG speech now and I want to, you know, roar, ultimately my come up is an arts come up. I was supported by the arts community. I never want to lose sight of that. Marty Supreme is an indie movie. It's an A24 movie. Shout out to A24. SPEAKER_03: Amazing. Incredible. SPEAKER_08: So a lot of the things that I was passionate about my teenage years, you know, now my late 20s, I've come back to. But really my crucial years. So anyway, like if I think about like, even Ant, like I did the white boy year thing, so I text him a little bit, but I'm like, these guys, it's like a different mentality. To be athletically gifted, and it's not subjective. Like, you average 28 points, you know that for a fact. Acting is still subjective. And there's a confidence that comes with those guys that I think even if they respect me, it's more subjective with acting. They could have their own opinion. They might go, fuck this guy, he's not, you know, rest with Shea is MVP. SPEAKER_03: And you can't dispute it, you know.
SPEAKER_03: So let me I'll counter that. Yeah. And I would say guys like you, like in other genres, like the greats in other genres, like I consider you great in your genre. And you have way more to do in your life. Athletes respect what you do because think about the time that we have, right? It's very, it's either limited or you have all the time, you know, in a day. You go home from practice, practice two hours, three hours, you home for the rest of the day, right? So if you're young, you don't really have a family, you don't have no kids. You, I'm looking to see what I can relate to, right? I'm looking at shows, I'm looking at movies, I'm listening to shit. What I can relate to? So if you do some shit for me and I can relate to it, that's who I'm fucking with. Yo, yo, we gotta watch Timmy. You bring it to the locker room. You bring it to the bus. You bring it to the plane. Which is why you get that respect from the athletes. So don't feel like it's a superiority thing. It's a level of respect. They holding you. And it's holding you to the to the to a higher level from to the extent of I'm watching you like I'm paying attention to you, T. You know what I'm saying? You're talking about somebody who's great at what he do in his lane, looking at somebody else who's great at what they do in their lane. Same age, around the same age, in a sense, right? So y'all influencing each other. So I say, lock into that even more. Even for him to lock into that. You know, we had, we had Kevin Hart on here the other day, and Bill Bellamy, and then we sitting here talking about when we had it like during our time, early 2000s, mid 2000s, how everybody from their own respective lane and genre came together and we supported each other. We don't see a lot of that no more. But you, your generation have the opportunity to change that. I hope I said a lot. But I hope that.
SPEAKER_08: No, it resonates with me and it gives me confidence. It's something about, and I hear you, it's hard for me to imagine these guys, I don't want to say fucking with what I've done because I feel like Marty Supreme's the most thing like an athlete could really relate to, but it's just hard, man. It's like I always felt like an outsider. And, but I hear you, you know, and those bridges are important, especially in this day and age, at least for the acting industry, that people feel like it's not just a bunch of wackos in Hollywood making movies that are inaccessible, but actually making things that people want to see. That's what I'm really trying to do with Dune, but also with Marty Supreme. It's like, this is for real people. You know, I don't want, and I've been joking about the Brownsville thing, whatever, but it's also, I'm going to Brownsville to promote the movie. I'm like, hey, I actually think everyone will fuck with this movie. Yeah. You know.
SPEAKER_03: I love the fact that you're thinking that way, because not a lot of people would be thinking about that. SPEAKER_08: And also because I'm still young enough, like you said, to get the mission statement. Also, if you're a recording artist, always look at the musicians, because I'm jealous of them. They're going state to state, they're going concert to concert. And in Hollywood, you'll do your press junket in LA in New York and you won't see the country. You know, and that's why Hollywood's broken a little bit. And I sound like a politician, but, you know, I love going to, you know, last year I went to Minnesota, I went to Atlanta, I went to Nashville and actually connecting with people, you know, to get these movies out. And Marty's more deserving than any of it, you know.
SPEAKER_08: Can I get one more shot? It's complete. Can I go on to it? I ain't get one chip. Give me. SPEAKER_00: Marty is complete. They were like, stop giving no alcohol. SPEAKER_03: That's a complete body of work right there. Yeah, for you to have that, that body of work, this, this early in your career, like.
SPEAKER_02: Shut the EJ, super producer, the goddamn producer on the air. Shut the EJ. SPEAKER_03: Not a lot of people. Not a lot of people can say that. Yeah, that's this is a complete piece of art that you, this Marty Supreme. SPEAKER_08: Speaking of the Met Ball, I don't know who it was. Matt Gallo? Matt Gallo? Matt Gallo? SPEAKER_03: You're right. You're right. You're right. SPEAKER_06: You're right. SPEAKER_08: There was. SPEAKER_06: Shoot at the right one. Not at the shoot at. SPEAKER_08: Cheers. SPEAKER_06: Cheers. Cheers. Cheers. SPEAKER_08: There was someone said to me there. When I was here in '21, I was just walking down the hallway and this guy grabbed me by the arm, said, keep your foot on their necks. And then he walked away. I still don't know who that was.
SPEAKER_02: But that's what it is, bro. To put a ball on, like the athlete, athlete, actor, you know, like musician, entertainer, there's no matter what field you're in, you know what I'm saying? Like as a comedian, I look at like at what you're doing like in the dramatic space and acting, period, as like, he's one of them, one. You know what I'm saying? Like Melo is kind of saying the same thing. Like when you're in like, like at that elite class of like, what you do, everybody else looks at you like, yo, damn, he's that guy. You know what I'm saying? And it's like, there's like a mutual respect across like, you know what I mean? Like crafts and all that. There's a motherfucker probably who's like, the illest quilter in the world. I know one right here in the world. You know what I'm saying? Watching your shit being like, yo, I fuck with all his shit.
SPEAKER_08: That's what I meant about the Kendrick thing though. That what you just said. I felt in his presence. But I thought, imagine being the greatest at what you do, like him, but going to war about it. Not to bring it back to that. I was just, you know what I'm saying? I don't know if that.
SPEAKER_05: Is there any actor out there or like actors that you see? I think Vanity Fair just dropped like a young Hollywood or a new Hollywood cover or whatever. Right? Do you look at covers like that and look at it like athletes look at other players?
SPEAKER_00: Alright, fuck all these people. SPEAKER_05: Let's get into this. SPEAKER_00: We have our guests up here and he was like, man, fuck Chris Rock. SPEAKER_02: That's what the fuck he said. That really, but he was like, but he was like, yo, I'm him. You know what I'm saying? Like, yo. SPEAKER_05: Your repetitive spirit has got to come out. SPEAKER_08: When you see stuff. SPEAKER_05: No, no, no. SPEAKER_08: Here, this is my new perspective on this, okay? Western culture is not a given. Like K-Pop Demon Hunter was the biggest thing on Netflix right now. SPEAKER_05: That's a fact. SPEAKER_08: So anytime anybody in Western culture is popping, it's good. It lifts everyone up. You know, so when I see other actors my age, they're doing great. That's honestly how that's how I've taught myself to feel. You know, I'm like.
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SPEAKER_03: We have our own Oscar segment over here, which is called the 7pm moment. And for your 7pm moment, we've heard that Leo gave you some advice. No superhero movies, no hard drugs. But looking back on your career so far, who was someone that gave you more important than that in the game? SPEAKER_08: I mean, that's very straight to the point. No superhero movies, no hard drugs. That was very good advice. Smoke weed and do indie film. You know what I'm saying? He didn't quite say that. I guess that was the subtext. Okay. What's coming to mind more than who gave me advice that worked is like, how many people try to give you advice that don't really walk in your shoes. But I always say, be careful of people that are more thrilled to give you advice than the actual advice they're giving you. And so I feel like in the last couple years, I've realized you've just got to follow instinct. And I've kind of gotten lucky. I'
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