I adore Timothee Chalamet, but my lord, his Vogue cover editorial is not it. They made him look like a petite dirtbag. That’s the only way to describe it – he looks small and dirtbaggy. A lot of the Vogue profile is Timmy promoting Marty Supreme, which very possibly could earn him his third Oscar nomination before the age of 30 (well, he turns 30 just after Christmas). But Chalamet also talks a lot about where he is now in his career, his larger career goals and personal goals. You can read the full piece here. Some highlights:

Playing Marty Mauser in Marty Supreme: “It’s the most me I was until I had any sort of career.”

He’s not interested in making prestige films for a vanishing population. “You don’t want to risk being too declarative. But I also don’t want to look back on life and things I’ve put out and go, ‘Oh, little old me. Hey, see the movie if you want. It is what it is.’ No. At worst, you’ve rubbed people the wrong way. And at best, someone will get pulled in and go, ‘Hey, this guy really thinks this thing’s worthy.’ ”

He’s super-confident: He does not experience what he calls a “fever pitch of self-terror” that he has seen in other people. He has watched actors buckle under pressure or lose themselves. “That’s never been who I am. My superpower is my fearlessness. That’s the feedback I’ve gotten since I was a kid.”

He has no interest in working in TV again: When I ask if he thinks he’ll ever return to it, Chalamet responds with a simple, self-assured “no.” He doesn’t hedge with an out for “the right project” or offer some caveat about a certain director. He just flashes a movie-star smile, and that is the end of our on-the-record conversation about that.

Being an actor requires “a degree of obedience”: “I think some people relish it, not even just actors. I’m talking publicists, the unit people. People love to be told what to do.”

Losing the Oscar this year. “If there’s five people at an awards show, and four people go home losing, you don’t think those four people are at the restaurant like, ‘Damn, we didn’t win’? I’ve been around some deeply generous, no-ego actors, and maybe some of them are going, ‘That was fun.’ But I know for a fact a lot of them are going, ‘F–k!’ ” At least Chalamet is honest about it. “People can call me a try-hard, and they can say whatever the f–k. But I’m the one actually doing it here.”

Working with Gwyneth Paltrow. “Here’s someone whose sense of self-worth and whose sense of how their time is being respected or not has nothing to do with the film industry. She seemed healthy in that regard—and really chic.”

Whether selfishness is a prerequisite for greatness: “Excellence can exist without it being arduous. You don’t have to be selfish to be great, no. And I know, because I’ve worked with directors who are incredible and who are incredibly present in their family life. Even Denis, who I’m working with right now. I’m just amazed by him. It was his birthday two days ago, and one of his kids flew themselves out as a surprise, and he’s hugging him, and he’s weeping on set, and people are taking videos. Denis is a total master of his craft, and he’s a great family man.”

On Kylie Jenner & potential fatherhood: Chalamet will not talk about his relationship with girlfriend Kylie Jenner (“and I don’t say that with any fear, I just don’t have anything to say”), but he doesn’t mind at all acknowledging the new stage of his life that he is entering into. His sister just had a baby. “Zendaya is engaged. Anya is married,” he says of two of his Dune costars. [Fatherhood] is something Chalamet would like to experience. He remembers sitting with a friend, watching an interview with someone whose name he is “definitely” not going to share. The person in question was “bragging about not having kids and how much time it afforded them to do other stuff,” he says. Chalamet and his friend turned to each other: “Like, holy sh-t. Oh my God. Bleak.” He knows some people can’t have children or are never in a position to. But he does believe procreation is the reason we’re here. Yes, children: “That could be on the radar,” he says.

[From Vogue]

He comes across as someone with a healthy mindset, actually. Like, an appreciation for where he is, but still reaching for more and setting attainable goals. Confident without being arrogant, thoughtful without being totally neurotic. I like what he said about whether greatness requires extreme selfishness too – his idea of a great life is a demanding career, and marriage and fatherhood. Of course, he has those options available to him because he’s a man, let’s be real. But yeah, it definitely sounds like he wants to have a baby with Kylie!!

Cover courtesy of Vogue, additional photos courtesy of Cover Images.