Only now is he playing his first blockbuster lead, in no less vast a project than Dune. “He and his team know how to play with the perceptions of him: when you have a name like Timothée Chalamet, American audiences in particular are likely to see you as somehow more sophisticated and privileged than the usual movie star.” “We took to calling him ‘Prince Timmée’ in our posts because there’s a sort of aristocracy, cosplay element to his style, very Le Petit Prince,” says Lorenzo Marquez, co-editor of fashion commentary site Tom + Lorenzo. Even his singular red-carpet style – lots of editorial, gender-blurring fashion, nary a standard suit to be seen – plays into that elective air. He’ll happily take a supporting role (he was an endearing, flustered Laurie in Gerwig’s Little Women) if the surrounding film reflects well on him. Yet Chalamet has bided his time, taking a choosy, even curated, approach to his career. Most young stars, after the status upgrade of Call Me By Your Name, would be drafted directly into massive studio fodder. Photograph: Moviestore Collection Ltd/Alamy In 2014, he made his film debut in Jason Reitman’s best-forgotten Men, Women & Children, before making a stronger impression in Interstellar, directed by his professed favourite film-maker, Christopher Nolan.Ĭhalamet, right, as Paul Atreides with Josh Brolin as Gurney Halleck in Dune. He briefly enrolled at Columbia University but dropped out for big-name acting opportunities. The son of an American mother who has performed on Broadway and a French father who works at Unicef, he grew up comfortably in New York City, summering at his grandparents’ home in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon in the Auvergne, and attended the famous LaGuardia school of performing arts. Along came an Oscar nomination for Call Me By Your Name, making the then 22-year-old Chalamet the youngest best actor nominee since Mickey Rooney in 1940.Ĭhalamet wasn’t unprepared for the business. Before the year was out, a secondary role as a high-school dreamboat in Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird cemented his next-big-thing status. Released in 2017, the film grossed a modest £30m worldwide, yet Chalamet’s portrayal of gangly, confused first love – sealed by a scene in which Elio masturbates into a ripe summer peach – became the stuff of instant, obsessive and very online fandom. Few actors have been propelled to mass-market stardom by a film as unlikely as Call Me By Your Name – Italian director Luca Guadagnino’s woozy, humid gay love story between Chalamet’s precocious teen Elio and Armie Hammer’s suave graduate student Oliver. It’s 13 years since that emo vampire saga launched Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson into the stratosphere, affording them the platform to build increasingly offbeat careers in independent and arthouse cinema.
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