Timothee Chalamet John Salangsang/Golden Globes 2024/Golden Globes 2024 through Getty Photographs
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 had been popping after I was developing, the suggestions was all the time, ‘Oh, you don’t have the best physique,’” Chalamet, 28, mentioned on the Monday, November 11 episode of Apple Music’s “The Zane Lowe Interview Sequence.”
The Dune star revealed, “I had an agent that known as me and mentioned, ‘You bought to placed on weight,’ mainly — not aggressively, however you realize.”
Somewhat than beef up for main man roles in big-budget motion flicks, Chalamet gravitated towards smaller movies that had a “very private type” in addition to larger status. These included Girl Fowl, Little Ladies and Name Me By Your Title, for which he earned a Greatest Actor Oscar nomination in 2018.
“That is the place I discovered my rhythm, my confidence, my stream, no matter you need 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 method into these very personalised motion pictures,” Chalamet mentioned. “For [Dylan], it was people music. He couldn’t hold a rock and roll band as a result of they’d all get employed by different youngsters that had more cash, actually, in Minnesota.”
Chalamet ultimately graduated to the large time, headlining the megahit Dune motion pictures in addition to Wonka, which made $634 million on the worldwide field workplace final yr.
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 group in Washington Sq. Park, sporting a baseball cap and a black masks. After revealing himself, he posed for photos 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 seeking to scout out the subsequent web heartthrob for his modeling company.
“It’s a scrawny white boy parade,” he informed Us. “It’s good. It’s what we search for. We’ll see the way it seems. I’m hopeful.”