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Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet and Kylie Jenner at the Los Angeles premiere of Marty Supreme<\/p>\n
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\u201cThis is probably my best performance,\u201d he has said about Marty Supreme. \u201cAnd it\u2019s been like seven, eight years that I have been handing in really committed top-of-the-line performances \u2014 I don\u2019t want people to take it for granted \u2026 This is really some top-level shit.\u201d<\/p>\n
You never hear actors talk like this. Chalamet is saying out loud, arrogantly, what we all know actors say in private WhatsApp groups anyway. That \u201ctop-level shit\u201d includes Call Me by Your Name, Little Women, Wes Anderson\u2019s The French Dispatch, Dune, Don\u2019t Look Up, Dune: Part Two, A Complete Unknown and Marty Supreme, and while \u201ctop-level\u201d for the overwrought addiction drama Beautiful Boy and forgettable Wonka is a stretch, Chalamet talks about acting in a way that would make his beloved braggadocio rap idols \u2014 he is a huge hip-hop fan \u2014 proud. Frankly, it is a breath of fresh air amid the luvviness.<\/p>\n
Earlier this year, when winning a Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award for his role as Dylan, the actor said: \u201cI\u2019m in pursuit of greatness \u2014 I know people don\u2019t usually talk like that, but I want to be one of the greats \u2026 I am as inspired by Daniel Day-Lewis, Marlon Brando and Viola Davis as by Michael Jordan, Michael Phelps, and I want to be up there.\u201d He treats acting like sport, and not everybody is pleased. <\/p>\n
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As Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown<\/p>\n
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\u201cWas Chalamet\u2019s SAG speech endearingly honest, or manosphere-enabled overconfidence?\u201d ran one particularly reactionary piece in Vogue, but that opinion is not unusual in an industry where one is always meant to be thankful. <\/p>\n
\u2022 5 of the best \u2026 Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet films<\/a><\/p>\n How good is he? Chalamet was born in New York in 1995. His mother was a dancer turned estate agent and his French father was a correspondent for Le Parisien. He grew up in a \u201csuper-untethered and beautiful\u201d neighbourhood, taking roles in TV shows such as Homeland. He enrolled at Columbia University but quit to focus on acting. He did not always have it his way \u2014 he auditioned for, but was not cast in, Manchester by the Sea and the Spider-Man role that went to Tom Holland. But his role as young Elio, coming to terms with his sexuality and making love to a peach in Luca Guadagnino\u2019s sensational, sensuous Call Me by Your Name made him. In 2018, at 22, he was the youngest best actor nominee at the Oscars since 1944.<\/p>\n In Call Me By Your Name in 2017<\/p>\n ALAMY<\/p>\n Guadagnino remembers him as \u201ccunning, smart, inspiring, quick and witty\u201d, mentioning both his \u201chumbleness and rigour\u201d as he set out, but then came the sort of accolade that can go to a young man\u2019s head. Greta Gerwig, who directed him in Lady Bird and Little Women, said Chalamet was \u201ca young Christian Bale, crossed with young Daniel Day-Lewis with a sprinkle of young Leonardo DiCaprio, and then raised speaking French in Manhattan and given a Mensa-level IQ and a love of hip-hop.\u201d <\/p>\n Denis Villeneuve said there was no \u201cplan B\u201d when it came to casting the lead role in his sci-fi epic Dune \u2014 partly because Chalamet\u2019s character, Paul Atreides is at first callow but later a leader. \u201cSo I needed charisma \u2014 and Timoth\u00e9e has that insane rock star quality,\u201d Villeneuve said.<\/p>\n Chalamet in Dune: Part Two<\/p>\n ALAMY<\/p>\n That rock or, indeed, rap star quality has never been more apparent. He might not win best actor at various forthcoming awards \u2014 DiCaprio is a major rival <\/a>for One Battle After Another \u2014 but he will certainly take \u201cmost memorable\u201d. In Marty Supreme, Chalamet\u2019s character invents an orange table tennis ball and, last week, the actor and Jenner appeared on the red carpet adorned in vibrant orange. He is an unashamed A-lister who is desperate to make a splash. <\/p>\n![\"Timoth\u00e9e](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/\/47e98084-922f-4679-8393-4abbb857d988.jpg\")
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