Football talk is scarce in the NFL’s new three-minute black-and-white promo released today in anticipation of Sunday’s Super Bowl, but with Kendrick Lamar in the driver’s seat, literally, and Timothée Chalamet riding shotgun, few will notice anything else.
Watch it below.
Lamar, of course, will perform for the Super Bowl Halftime Show in the big event between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles in New Orleans. In the video with Chalamet – put out by the NFL and Half Time sponsor Apple Music – the rapper and the Oscar nominee ride around Lamar’s famous GNX, chat amiably about making art and the role of experimentation in the creative process. In the sweetest moment near the end, Chalamet gushes about being a longtime fan of Lamar.
“The thing about acting is,” Chalamet says early on, “if you don’t have an audience, it’s just a form of insanity. And you’re just, what are you doing? So I definitely try to warm up and then, you know, lose that self-consciousness when you finally get back out there. But that takes time.”
He continues, “I always try to embrace failure — you were talking about that the other day — the most important part of a bad day is the way you leave it. If you can leave a bad take or a bad day with a positive attitude, then you’ve got nothing to fear.”
Lamar says that he’s “always locked in and always trying new things.”
“I have to keep the pen moving. It’s my form of sanity,” he says, “and it also has given me the opportunity to learn myself, you know, find out who I am.” He continues, “A lot of these records I write, man, are stuff I probably would have never expressed or even known about myself if it wasn’t for an instrumental behind it.”
That’s when Chalamet gets a bit vulnerable. “Just being a fan of your music forever and knowing like, look where you’re at now,” the Complete Unknown star says. “It’s just crazy, Super Bowl Halftime Show. You just keep climbing, bro. It’s like amazing.”
“I appreciate that,” Lamar responds.
Check out the video below for the full conversation.
