00:00I start to learn how to cook.
00:02What's the Mbappe special?
00:03For example, nothing.
00:04For the moment, nothing.
00:05But I try to be better.
00:11Hi, guys.
00:12It's Kylian Mbappe, and I'm here on my Vanity Fair cover shop.
00:16What do you know now about being a pro athlete that you wish someone had told you when you were
00:2016?
00:21Oh, I will tell him, like, to dream big, to stay humble, and to trust the process,
00:27because it's a long journey to be an athlete.
00:30When I was 16, I just wanted to be a football player, to play the best games, to play in
00:34the best teams,
00:35to be happy also on the pitch, to don't lose my patience for the game.
00:39Also to be happy outside football, because that helps you to have a wonderful career,
00:43to be happy with your family, with your lovely ones.
00:45It's always important.
00:47Do you have friendships that have nothing to do with football?
00:50Yeah, of course.
00:51Of course.
00:51I have friends that I met them outside football.
00:54I have friends that I met them before I was a football player.
00:56I think it's important also to keep a balance, because football, it's just a big thing in my life,
01:05but there is not only football in life, so it's good to open my mind to other things
01:10and to explore everything I can explore.
01:12I try to do normal things first, because there is nothing normal in the world in football.
01:17I have one friend, like, he don't care about football, so all the time we start talking about football.
01:22For him, it's so boring, so he'd say, you have nothing else in your life than football?
01:27But it's my friends.
01:30Kylian, what's something people would be surprised to hear that you do in your spare time?
01:35Oh, I think they will be surprised to know that sometimes in my day off, I love to do nothing
01:42and stay home,
01:43because everybody thinks that our life is so exciting.
01:46We do everything, but sometimes we just love to chill at home and do nothing, like everybody.
01:51And I know because sometimes, one day, it was a friend of me who bring a friend to my house
01:57and he was surprised that I was, like, doing nothing.
02:00He was thinking that everybody was, like, super fast, super chill.
02:03I say, no, no, no, it's just Sunday.
02:04I want to stay home.
02:05I start to learn how to cook.
02:07What's the Mbappé special?
02:09For example, nothing.
02:10For the moment, nothing.
02:11But I try to be better.
02:13But it's something that I want to improve, you know.
02:15When I'm home, I think when you can cook something good at home for someone or for yourself, it's something
02:19good.
02:20What was the first thing that genuinely surprised you about Madrid?
02:23Oh, a little bit of everything, because I have to be honest, when I arrived in Madrid, I had absolutely
02:29no idea about the city.
02:30Nothing.
02:31But I was surprised about the culture, about the people, about the way they are welcoming, about the way they
02:36want to help all the time.
02:37But also the food.
02:38It's good food.
02:39It's difficult to match with French food, but they try to do it.
02:43It's not bad.
02:45And also the weather.
02:46The weather is so nice.
02:48It's peaceful to be in a place like this.
02:50And I really enjoy my time in Madrid.
02:52We have fans all around the world.
02:55Of course, in Madrid, even more.
02:57But, of course, it's the greatest club in the world.
03:00The most famous club.
03:01We have love.
03:02We receive love from everywhere.
03:04Even now that I come with national team for games, there are many Madrid fans.
03:09Yesterday, the stadium was the same.
03:11It's the big club in the world.
03:13So it's such a blessing to be part of this club and this project.
03:16The thing that surprised me the most when I used to arrive, and they eat so late.
03:21In France, we are like, at 9 is breakfast, at 12 is the lunch, at 8 is dinner.
03:27Them is like chill.
03:28Everything is chill.
03:29They always say when you say something, they say tranquilo.
03:32It's okay.
03:33They take it easy.
03:34You know, they let the things come to them.
03:37And it's really funny because they have no pressure.
03:40In everything, they have no pressure.
03:41And it's something that I learned from Spanish people.
03:45Like, they are, like, easy.
03:47Come on, let's go outside.
03:51I hope he's not that cold outside.
03:55Ronaldo is one of your role models.
03:57Yeah.
03:57Can you tell me what's some advice you received from him?
04:00Well, he's a friend now.
04:02It's so great to have people that you idolize when you're young and they became your friends.
04:06We used to talk a lot together.
04:08And he helped me a lot when I was in Madrid for my first year.
04:11Because he knows Madrid really well.
04:12He spent, like, almost 10 years in Madrid.
04:14So we have a wonderful relationship, and I'm happy with that.
04:17And, of course, I was happy to talk with him the first time because I was someone that I idolized
04:21when I was young.
04:23But I'm not someone who's scared or shy, so it's easy for me.
04:27Killian, if football didn't exist, what do you think you'd be doing right now?
04:31I think I was working with kids to help kids because I always say that I love kids and they
04:38are the future of the world.
04:39So I try to give them the best tips in life to have the best life possible.
04:44In 2018, you were a teenager playing in your first World Cup.
04:48Yeah.
04:48In 2022, you were a breakout star.
04:50What does 2026 have in store?
04:53Yeah, captain now.
04:54I'm the captain of the team.
04:55It's different now.
04:56It's a different responsibility.
04:57But I'm ready for that.
04:59I'm ready to lead my team to the biggest stage again.
05:03And I hope that we're going to go back with the trophy in Paris and in the Champs-Elysées.
05:07I think when you play, you don't think about the legacy.
05:10You think about to perform and to bring the trophy home.
05:14But, of course, if we win and if I win, it's going to be insane for the legacy of the
05:18country and my legacy for sure.
05:20Guys, we had a nice time, but I got to go.
05:22So thank you for everything and see you soon.
05:26That's a cut.
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