What’s your favorite performance of the other person?
Chalamet: Am I allowed to have been in it? [Laughs] I could make it about Brooklyn because I love Brooklyn too. But there was something so magical in Little Women. She just tapped into something. It’s the scene in the attic that I’m not in, it’s with Laura Dern where she just tapped into something extraordinary.
Ronan: I think it’s the same for me. I loved you in Call Me by Your Name as well, so much. But there is something very special I think about Jo and Laurie and Little Women. It’s magic.
Is there a specific movie genre that you haven’t yet explored but you would like to?
Ronan: A musical.
Chalamet: Oh man, you’ve got to do a musical. What musical would you do?
Ronan: Wicked. [Laughs] I can’t stop thinking about Wicked. Maybe an original. I would like to do a biopic of someone. I’m not going to say who it is. I don’t want someone else to steal it.
Chalamet: Is she alive?
Ronan: Yes.
Chalamet: Do they know you want to do it?
Ronan: No. I’m curious what you want to do?
Chalamet: I don’t know. I don’t think in genres. There’s great directors I want to work with.
Like who?
Chalamet: It’s probably still Paul Thomas Anderson. He’s the dream.
If your respective characters from Ladybird were real, what do you think they would be doing now, in 2024?
Chalamet: Oh my god. I was reading about this recently. People that think an armageddon’s coming,they buy these properties—you can give a certain amount of money a year to be part of a program where, if a doomsday comes, you can knock on the door, and they’ll give you a bed for however long our armageddon is.
Ronan: What would Lady Bird be doing? I mean, she’s loosely based on Greta, so she’d be directing. She met Margot Robbie at an award show, and made Barbie.
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