Timothée Chalamet to reunite with ‘movie dad’ Matthew McConaughey

Timothée Chalamet is set to reunite with Matthew McConaughey, more than a decade after the two appeared together in Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar.

The duo who played father and son in the popular sci-fi feature will be hosted by Variety and CNN for a town hall conversation with the former co-stars.

Described as “a candid discussion about their craft and creative process,” the two actors will be featured in a live onstage exchange, to be filmed at the University of Texas at Austin.

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The two actors will also entertain live questions from the audience of students, with McConaughey notably being a former alumnus of the institute.

He has also been teaching film classes at the university’s Moody College of Communication since 2015.

Titled A CNN & Variety Town Hall Event: Timothée Chalamet and Matthew McConaughey, the event will air on February 21.

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Amy Entelis, executive producer at CNN, said that the programme between the Oscar nominee and the Oscar winner will “offer a masterclass in craft and creativity”.

While Variety’s co-editor in chief and co-president, Ramin Setoodeh, said that “we love a reunion.”

“We can’t wait to bring together two of the most daring actors in Hollywood,” she added.

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Interstellar, released in 2014, was one of Chalamet’s earliest breakthrough roles in Hollywood. He previously described Matthew McConaughey as his “movie dad” in a social media post from 2024.