COVID was a foul time for many of Earth. But with out mitigating the very actual struggling skilled planet-wide, John Popper of Blues Traveler had an particularly peculiar expertise in the course of the pandemic. And by peculiar, I imply he developed a phobia of Timothée Chalamet.
“I fell asleep to [2021’s] Dune and I saved having these fever goals that Timothée Chalamet was a terminator coming to kill me,” Popper recounted in an interview with Rolling Stone. “And I might shoot him 100 instances and he simply saved coming again, and he was unstoppable.”
There are such a lot of questions I’m not truly positive the place to start. At what actual second did Popper truly go to sleep? As a result of at most, the primary Dune sees Chalamet’s Paul Atreides fluctuate between scared little boy and junior badass-in-training. Past that, did Popper eat one thing spicy to one way or the other facilitate these goals? And when he says “terminator,” did he think about Chalamet’s physique on a T-800 skeleton? And, lastly, if this Dune gave him nightmares, ought to he even try David Lynch’s bonkers 1984 model?
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This revelation got here throughout Popper’s decidedly private interview with Rolling Stone. He additionally mentioned nearly dying in 2025 following a botched surgical procedure for carpal tunnel syndrome; how he met his new spouse, Sherri “Gidget” Popper at a nudist colony in 2003; his continued sober journey; why Bob Dylan is rock’s worst harmonica participant; and 2026 tour plans with Gin Blossoms and Spin Docs. (These bands beforehand performed collectively in 2023 throughout a ’90s rock-themed occasion cruise.) Try the complete interview right here.
Oh, and don’t fear an excessive amount of about Popper’s bruised psyche. He ultimately discovered a salve to show Chalamet from a murderous terminator again into America’s brightest younger star.
“It gave me a worry of Timothée Chalamet till I noticed A Full Unknown,” Popper stated.
