01/25/2026: Timothée Chalamet, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kate Winslet

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1:16Timothy Chalamet pre-recorded all the Dylan songs he'd sing in the movie. They were supposed to be played back on set during filming. It always sounded too clean. The recording equipment's too clean now. The guitars are too good. Bob Dylan was drinking two bottles of red wine a day, sometimes smoking 30 packs of cigarettes. Did you drink two bottles of wine and smoke 30 packs of alcohol? The smoking I did, the wine I held back on more.

1:42Four decades after she cemented her place in Hollywood with the horror movie Halloween, Jamie Lee Curtis is savoring a new wave of award-winning performances, playing a string of raw, volatile characters that suck the oxygen out of the room. Donna, the images in my mind of her buttering the bread with the nails and the eyelash on the cheek. The eyelash. That single eyelash, I think, won me an Emmy. I swear to God. Go. Go sit. When we met Kate Winslet outside London... Okay, we're getting some of that. We found the actress to be remarkably un-Hollywood. Thank you. And capable of sounding remarkably, well, un-British.

2:27She's probably lying at the bottom of the Delaware River right now. And why is a filly so hard? It's actually the I sound in the Philadelphia and the Delco dialect that is really difficult. They don't say, that's nice. They say, that's nice. I like your bike.

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3:50Good evening, I'm Anderson Cooper. Welcome to 60 Minutes Presents. Tonight, a night at the movies, featuring three acclaimed actors, each at a different point in their career. We'll spend some time with Jamie Lee Curtis, who's been making movies for more than four decades and has recently enjoyed a wave of award-winning performances. Then we'll travel to England to meet with Kate Winslet, who starred in and produced Lee, a movie about a photographer on the front lines during World War II. But we begin with Timothee Chalamet, who earned his third Oscar nomination this past week, this one for his role in the film Marty Supreme.

4:27But it was his portrayal of Bob Dylan in a complete unknown that caught our attention last February. Bob Dylan is not just a singing and songwriting legend, he's one of the most enigmatic and reclusive musicians of our time. Playing him in a movie based on his life would be a daunting task for any actor. But when Timothee Chalamet was offered the role, he was 23. It says he knew practically nothing about Dylan. A lot of people told him not to do it, but Chalamet likes a creative challenge. He says he's never met Bob Dylan, but because of the pandemic, strikes in Hollywood and other film commitments, Chalamet ended up having about five years to study the man and his music, determined like Bob Dylan was at his age to make it great.

5:14I give a hundred seventy percent in everything I'm doing. No but there. I'm giving it my all. Something like the Dylan Project, these aren't watered down experiences. I'm going Daniel Day-Lewis on all of them. I'm not saying in process, but I'm saying a level of commitment. And I don't know man, it sounds like I'm desperate saying that or something. No, it sounds like you're a professional and you want it to be the best it can possibly be. Yeah, and increasingly, I don't want to shy away from saying that. I stumble on the side of 12 misty mountains Chalamet, who's 30 now, didn't just need to figure out how to sing like Dylan.

5:49He also learned how to play harmonica and guitar and about 40 Bob Dylan songs, far more than were originally called for in the script. It's a heart rate The pain are gonna fall. Thank you. The movie, set in the early 1960s, follows Bob Dylan's rapid rise from obscurity to stardom, something Timothee Chalamet could relate to. I was young when I left home. And I've been out of rambling around. Dylan was 19 when he arrived in New York from Minnesota. A complete unknown, he quickly became an icon in the world of folk music. How many roads must a man walk down Before you call him a man? Poetic and political, his song spoke to the times and a young generation demanding change.

6:47And the first one now will be to be last For the times they are a-changer Dylan got his start in New York at a nightclub called Café Wa in Greenwich Village. This was one of his, you know, jump points. This was like really a place where you could just go play folk music in the 60s, early 60s. And I went during the movie, during the production, and it ain't the same. What were they playing? Now it's Aerosmith covers and the ACDC and also worthy. Art, but different. Very different. When Chalamet started researching Dylan, he did what many millennials likely would. He looked him up on YouTube. He found this clip particularly insightful, Dylan performing on stage with Joan Baez, with whom he'd had a romantic relationship.

7:37But it ain't me, babe. No, no, no. It ain't me, babe. What I love about the It Ain't Me performance is how playful it is and what a laugh he's having. He was the one, at least in the footnotes of history, that wasn't particularly, let's say, faithful with Joan. So I get it from his perspective that he's having such a laugh. On YouTube now, you can play things at 0.5 speed or 0.75 speed. And that was when I really slowed down, because it's fascinating the way Bob observes her and how he refuses eye contact in that video. This is Chalamet's version, with Monica Barbaro playing Joan Baez. It ain't me, baby.

8:22No, no, no. It ain't me, babe. It ain't me you're looking for, baby. You weren't trying to imitate Bob Dylan. No, totally. That was the tension for me in doing a biopic on somebody so beloved and so well-known was, all right, where does my heart and where does my soul fit into this? Can it fit into this? Particularly with someone who is so masked. I put myself in another place. but I'm a stranger there. To connect with what might be behind Dylan's mask, Chalamet disconnected from his own life for the two and a half months of filming.

9:00Wouldn't use his cell phone or have visitors on set. I've never approached a character so intensely as Bob because I had such respect for the material and I knew I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I remember that I was lazy on a day where something went wrong.

9:16Chalamet pre-recorded all the Dylan songs he'd sing in the movie. They were supposed to be played back on set during filming. It always sounded too clean. The recording equipment's too clean now. The guitars are too good. Bob Dylan was drinking two bottles of red wine in a day, sometimes smoking 30 packs of cigarettes. Did you drink two bottles of wine and smoke 30 packs of that? The smoking I did, the wine I held back on more. So Chalamet decided he wanted to try and sing and play live instead. This scene was the first time he did it. Dillon's just arrived in New York and visits his terminally ill hero, folk music legend Woody Guthrie, played by Scoot McNary.

9:55Edward Norton is Pete Seeger. On his first take, director James Mangold knew Chalamet nailed it. Hey, hey, Woody Guthrie, I wrote you a song. There's a moment in that scene, right at the last stanza, where he holds a note. Here's to the hearts in the hands of the men. It comes.

10:22That would never have happened if we used the playback track. Was that in the song originally? No. Because, I mean, there was... No.

10:33The dust and her gun with the wind. He just did it. What I see Timmy executing in the scene is the growth of confidence within the song. So by the end of the song, not only is he finishing it, looking right at Woody, but he's also holding it, which is like what a grand diva would do in the spotlight. You can't tell someone to do that. I'm not even sure Timmy completely plans it intellectually. That is that kind of talent. Did you know you were going to do that? Was that a planned thing? No, and it would be disingenuous to my, you know, the way I like to act or my approach to stuff. You don't have any clue why you did it?

11:17No, it just happened, yeah, truly.

11:24That may be true, or it may not. Like Dylan, Chalamet is reluctant to talk about how he does what he does. If there's magic in acting, Timothee Chalamet doesn't want to give it all away. What's the concern about revealing the magic? It's nobody's business how I go about these things. It's within the law. It's within the law. Yeah, and otherwise it might not be as interesting as people think. Or it could be a lot more interesting than people think. It might be more interesting than what I'm doing. She's our friend. I'm her friend. What Chalamet's done in nearly two dozen films has been plenty interesting.

11:59In the Dune series, he transformed himself from the privileged son of a duke into a menacing messiah. I am Paul Moadiv Adreides, Duke of Arrakis! It's no use, Joe. Joe, we've got to have it out. No, hey. I have loved you ever since I've known you, Joe. He's played Laurie in Little Women and a lovestruck teenager in Call Me By Your Name. Ah, where'd you learn to do that? I got nothing to offer but my chocolate. He took a risk reinventing Willy Wonka. This is your home. A world of your own. And his shape shifted between an adult drug addict and a reluctant King Henry V. So you basically grew up in the theater district?

12:43Yes, this is... As a child, Chalamet didn't dream of becoming an actor, though he was surrounded by them. He lived in this rent-subsidized apartment complex in Manhattan full of artists. Oh, Izzy! How you doing, man? What are you doing here? What's going on, man? Doing a little interview, baby. Good to see you. Growing up in this building certainly seems to have made an impression. This building truthfully made me scared of acting because it's a tough lifestyle and a lot of people, you know, aren't doing fantastically. You would think growing up here, like, it would encourage you to be an actor, but it actually...

13:17No, it actually terrified me of becoming an actor. His mom, Nicole Flender, was a dancer and works with the Actors' Equity Association. His sister, Pauline Chalamet, is an actress, and Timmy, as his friends and family call him, booked occasional acting jobs as a child. though he told us he really wanted to be a professional soccer player. This is him on Law & Order when he was 12. Could you please not tell Mom and Dad about us playing Hexbox? But his father, Marc Chalamet, a French journalist, wasn't exactly pushing him to act. My dad, I think he very, very, very correctly, rightfully was wary growing up.

13:52It's no place for a child. It really isn't. You know, cameras and people going, hey, do the thing where we recognize you as cute in your own head. I think my dad was more just like, be normal. These days, that's easier said than done. I appreciate it, man. When we went to get a slice of pizza, he told us a turning point in his life was getting into LaGuardia High School, a famously competitive public school for the performing arts. It's a school that champions the arts. So there I doubled down. I was not a distracted kid as a teenager, like maybe to a fault. You know, I wasn't like partying or, I don't say that to come off straight lace, like to a fault.

14:30I was like very focused and driven. He was cast as the lead in school musicals. I'm the bravest individual I have ever met. And developed routines for LaGuardia's talent show as a rapper named Lil Timmy Tim.

14:53It's humiliating, but I'll show you guys. He took us to the practice room in his building's basement where he'd rehearse. How old were you there? Here I'm 15, but I look like I'm 7. These are two good friends of mine, Sheree and Desiree. They're the only people in the world that did this talent show acting with me. I probably asked 35 people. He did go to college, Columbia University for a year, and then some classes at New York University. But he dropped out, wanting to focus on acting full time. Listen, man, I was struggling. I was struggling. I was struggling with identity, and I was struggling with your sense of self-respect, your sense of drive or where you want to be pales in comparison to where you are.

15:39Call Me By Your Name changed everything. He was 21 when it came out, around the same age Bob Dylan was when his career started to take off. Chalamet became the youngest person nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor in nearly 80 years. We thought he'd relate to something Bob Dylan said about the meaning of destiny to Ed Bradley in a rare interview on 60 Minutes more than 20 years ago. It's a feeling you have that you know something about yourself nobody else does. The picture you have in your mind of what you're about will come true. That's kind of a thing you kind of have to keep to your own self because it's a fragile feeling and you put it out there and somebody will kill it.

16:23So it's best to keep that all inside. Man, wow. You watch this interview a lot. Yeah, probably a thousand times, yeah. I always loved what he said about self-destiny being fragile. You believe that too, that if... I believe that especially early on in life, in your career, when you're in your early 20s or late teens. And if you can find a way to keep it quiet, but also have a lot of confidence, it's the best path, you know? It's interesting to me that you still haven't met Bob Dylan. Nope. No. Is that weird to you? I mean, it's not, you know. He doesn't seem like he wants to be bothered by, not me, but by everyone in the last 60, 70 years.

17:00What would you say to him? I would say thank you. I would just say thank you. You know what, that's ****. I'm gonna take that back. I wouldn't. Honestly, I would honestly just be like, I would play it super cool, you know. I feel like he's probably used to so much hyperbole and praise. Maybe I would try to out - Out-cool him? Out-bob him. Not cool, but out-bob him. Out-bob him. Yeah. Just like, strangely not bring anything up around him. Not even mention that you did the movie. Yeah. Maybe just talk about like... The weather. The weather and, you know, what his favorite sandwich is or something like that.

17:33Yeah.

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18:52We asked her about her decades-long career. She told us it was anything but planned. My life hinged on a couple seconds I never saw coming. I never thought I'd be an actor in my life. My teeth were the color of concrete. They were gray. I was cute but not pretty. And so I never saw that coming. She probably should have. Jamie Lee Curtis was born into Hollywood royalty, the daughter of screen idols Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, two of the biggest stars during the golden age of cinema. But Jamie Lee says she wanted to be a cop. She was home from college when a friend convinced her to audition for Universal Studios.

19:34I did the scene and she said that was very good or whatever. and I was like, okay, great, thanks. I said, listen, if this is going to work out, I need to know because I'm going back to college in like two days. Very practical. So like she laughed or whatever and they called me the next day and they gave me a seven-year contract at Universal and I quit college. Almost immediately, she booked the 1978 horror film Halloween. While I'm here tonight, I'm not about to let anything happen to you. Curtis was cast as the bookish babysitter, Laurie Strode, terrorized by an unrelenting killer. It was her first movie.

20:15She was 19 years old playing the lead. Were people saying, oh, she got the job because of who her parents are, because of the pedigree? I know. I guarantee you the fact that my mother was in Psycho was a determining factor that maybe that will get them a little extra publicity. Now, did it get me to that final two? No. My auditions got me to the final two. This was a$300 ,000 horror movie. This was not a job that a lot of people wanted. Halloween ended up grossing more than$70 million and became a cult classic. But it didn't exactly launch Jamie Lee Curtis's career. My big break after Halloween was I was on Love Boat with Janet Leigh.

21:03Beautiful Janet Leigh playing my mother. And then I was in a Charlie's Angels episode where I am Cheryl Ladd's best friend, pro golfer. So those are the two jobs I get post-Halloween. Were you thinking at this point, like, people aren't hiring me, they just want my mom around or the name? You know what? Sure. But didn't that bother you? No! Because, because I was doing my thing. Curtis's thing was transforming into a scream queen for a new generation with a string of horror movies. I read that you didn't even like scary movies. I don't like scary movies. Still? Still. Oh, please. Awful. Why? Awful.

21:50The smart aleck answer is because life is scary. It's a surprising thing to hear from an actress who's known for being fearless. Before that spin around the bedpost opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger in True Lies, Curtis held her own next to Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd in her first comedy feature, Trading Places, directed by John Landis. She says her role as Ophelia, a wise, kind-hearted streetwalker, is what really launched her career. That part, I mean, she's gritty, and the gum and the whole thing. How much of that did you bring her? John stuck gum in my mouth every day. Literally, I would stand there and he'd walk up.

22:34I'd go, okay. I mean, it's, you know, just a great part. But here's the other thing, and this is crucial, and this will make the peace. If I'm not in Trading Places, John Cleese does not write A Fish Called Wanda for me. I'll treasure it. If I'm not in A Fish Called Wanda, Jim Cameron does not write the part in True Lies for me. And that groping of films gave me my career, for sure. If it all sounds like a fairy tale, it wasn't. By the mid-80s, Jamie Lee Curtis was a well-established actor when she made a movie with John Travolta called Perfect. By all accounts and from every angle, she was. I took it very seriously as an actor, and of course, I look really good in a leotard.

23:22And believe me, I've seen enough pictures of me in that leotard where even I go like, really? Come on! But she says a cinematographer working on the film criticized the way she looked. I was like, yeah, I'm not shooting her today. Her eyes are baggy. And I was 25. So for him to say that was very embarrassing. So as soon as the movie finished, I ended up having some plastic surgery. How did that go? Not well. That's just not what you want to do when you're 25 or 26. And I regretted it immediately and have kind of sort of regretted it since. Even now? Way so now, because I've become a really public advocate to say to women, you're gorgeous and you're perfect the way you are.