Timothee Chalamet John Salangsang/Golden Globes 2024/Golden Globes 2024 by way of Getty Photos
Timothee Chalamet was suggested to achieve weight whereas auditioning for film roles earlier in his profession.
“If I auditioned for The Maze Runner or Divergent, issues of that selection that have been popping once I was developing, the suggestions was all the time, ‘Oh, you don’t have the correct physique,’” Chalamet, 28, stated on the Monday, November 11 episode of Apple Music’s “The Zane Lowe Interview Collection.”
The Dune star revealed, “I had an agent that known as me and stated, ‘You bought to placed on weight,’ principally — not aggressively, however you understand.”
Moderately than beef up for main man roles in big-budget motion flicks, Chalamet gravitated towards smaller movies that had a “very private model” in addition to larger status. These included Girl Chook, Little Ladies and Name Me By Your Title, for which he earned a Finest Actor Oscar nomination in 2018.
“That is the place I discovered my rhythm, my confidence, my movement, no matter you wish to name it,” Chalamet defined.
He in contrast his path to stardom with that of music legend Bob Dylan, whom he portrays within the upcoming biopic A Full Unknown, which hits theaters on Christmas Day.
“I discovered my manner into these very personalised motion pictures,” Chalamet stated. “For [Dylan], it was folks music. He couldn’t maintain a rock and roll band as a result of they’d all get employed by different youngsters that had extra money, actually, in Minnesota.”
Chalamet finally graduated to the massive time, headlining the megahit Dune motion pictures in addition to Wonka, which made $634 million on the worldwide field workplace final 12 months.
A Full Unknown represents a return to character-driven fare for Chalamet, who sings within the trailer that dropped in early October.
Later that month, the actor — proving that he doesn’t take himself that severely — confirmed as much as a Timothee Chalamet look-alike contest in New York Metropolis. Us Weekly was on the scene. The actor snuck into the gang in Washington Sq. Park, sporting a baseball cap and a black masks. After revealing himself, he posed for footage with a few of his doppelgangers.
Of all of the Timmys in competitors, 21-year-old Miles Mitchell ended up the winner and took dwelling the $50 prize and outsized trophy. In the meantime, one other attendee named Jared Dylan Borek was trying to scout out the following web heartthrob for his modeling company.
“It’s a scrawny white boy parade,” he instructed Us. “It’s good. It’s what we search for. We’ll see the way it seems. I’m hopeful.”