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A hidden earpiece lets someone off camera give instructions without the interviewer hearing. For a pre-recorded BBC Children in Need segment, 3 children used that setup to direct Dune stars during Rylan Clark's interview.

Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya and Anya Taylor-Joy followed their instructions. Taylor-Joy began meditating and brought her co-stars into chanting.

Chalamet was told to stroke Clark's beard. He approached with, "Is this?

Can I?" Zendaya added, "It looks so smooth and shiny."

Hollywood stars can handle imaginary sandworms. Apparently, the next acting challenge is approaching a presenter's facial hair without a rehearsal.

The mechanism is the joke: the interviewer expects answers about a film, while the actors secretly follow an entirely different set of directions. The children call the shots; the famous adults do the awkward work.

Our visual exaggeration puts Lil'meme on emergency barber duty. That's the cartoonishly bad career move, not an event reported in the interview.

The useful distinction: this was a planned charity prank, not evidence of a press tour falling apart.

Source: TheWrap via Yahoo: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/celebrity/interviews/articles/zendaya-timoth-e-chalamet-anya-223612948.html

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