It turns out Matthew McConaughey and Timothée Chalamet don’t exactly share the same idea of what qualifies as a prank.
The Interstellar co-stars reunited for a town hall hosted by Variety and CNN at the University of Texas — where McConaughey now teaches — and Chalamet looked back on a bizarre (and very smelly) farewell from his colleague.
“I gotta say, my last day on Interstellar, I was sad to be leaving,” Chalamet shared. “In my trailer, I went to the bathroom and there was a huge turd in my toilet. I felt so disrespected. Like, ‘I know I’m not the star of this movie, but who’s coming in here?’”
He explained that he questioned members of the crew before finally approaching director Christopher Nolan, who ultimately revealed McConaughey as the guilty party. “I went up to Nolan, and he pointed to Matthew, and Matthew had this devilish grin on his face. I said, ‘Why’d you do that?’ You said, ‘In Texas, it’s a coming of age, baby.’”
When the story resurfaced, McConaughey jokingly referred to the incident as leaving behind a “souvenir.”
Later in the discussion, McConaughey had nothing but praise for Chalamet’s bold promotional rollout for Marty Supreme, which debuted in 2025.
“On Marty Supreme, look at what you’re doing with the marketing. You’re disrupting things. Before anyone can go away, you’re on to the next. You’re doing fashion ads. You’re using smaller media. You’re not exclusive to Friday night when I buy the ticket to go to the theater. [That’s not] the only time I can spend time with Timothée Chalamet.”
Chalamet agreed, adding, “I think that’s of the past, man. Who the fuck is popular enough to go, ‘Hey, you’re only going to see me [in the movie]’? A Barbie or an ‘Oppenheimer,’ those things are game-changing.”
