TURLEY: There were more distinct waves up until about 2010, and then the internet put the entirety of history and art on our phones and we just can’t cope with all that information or know what to do with it, so we end up copying it, screenshotting it, on social media apps, and so maybe that is kind of what culture is right now. A sort of doom loop.
Top, Skirt, Necklace, and Shoes Miu Miu.
CHUNG: Maybe we’re all just struggling to identify. It could be symptomatic of a planet that’s—
TURLEY: Going wrong.
CHUNG: Oh god, hang on, my boyfriend called me, he’s obsessed.
TURLEY: Obsessed by what? Does he need to get in? Maybe he’s trapped somewhere?
CHUNG: No. It’s just that amazingly comfy bit of a relationship where whatever you do, you call each other afterwards. You’re like, “Okay, I just dropped off the cleaning.”
TURLEY: Cheeky question: Are you usually smarter than the people you date?
CHUNG: No, I don’t date people that aren’t smarter than me. I can be emotionally more intelligent, and I think in this instance Tom [Sturridge] is far more well-read than me, but then he would say I’m more intelligent than him, so it can go both ways. My goal is to read his library of books so that I can brain-match him.
TURLEY: Are you living together?
CHUNG: Yeah, there’s two of us in here.
TURLEY: Where do you want to grow old?
CHUNG: I think between now and death I want to do a stint in Paris. Then often I’m watching TV and I’m like, is it Brooklyn again? I did a decade in New York in my twenties. I think it’s such a wonderful thing to do if you get the opportunity—to take yourself apart and reassemble yourself again.
TURLEY: It’s a beautiful thing.
CHUNG: Do you know how young people are really good at claiming their age? When I was growing up, I was never like, “I’m only 22.” I was like, “I’m 22, I’m a grown-ass adult.” I want it to be like that for people of my age, where we’re the new frontier redefining another era. And actually, 40 is not old at all. The thing that makes people old is becoming stagnant or refusing to change.
TURLEY: You just have to keep interested in questioning the things that you love.
CHUNG: One hundred percent. What a lovely chat. Wasn’t expecting it to get as witchy, but I’m into it.
TURLEY: Same. It was so nice talking to you.
CHUNG: Yeah, lovely to talk to you.
TURLEY: Good luck with the shoot tomorrow.
CHUNG: Okay, take care.
TURLEY: Bye Alexa.
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