Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet Hardest Working Person: Backlash Explained<\/p>\n
As you are probably aware, Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet<\/a> has raised eyebrows over the past year or so for speaking incredibly openly about his talent, work ethic, and ambition.<\/p>\n It all started when he won the 2025 SAG Award for his performance in A Complete Unknown, where Timmy earnestly said that he is \u201creally in the pursuit of greatness.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cPeople don’t usually talk like this, but I want to be one of the greats,\u201d he went on. “I know the classiest thing would be to downplay the effort that went into this role and how much this means to me, but the truth is, this was five and a half years of my life. I poured everything I had into playing this incomparable artist, Mr. Bob Dylan, a true American hero.\u201d<\/p>\n In December, an interview that the star did with Margaret Gardiner was mysteriously scrubbed from the internet<\/a> after it triggered huge backlash. In the conversation, the star sincerely said that he doesn\u2019t want people to take his \u201ctop-of-the-line performances\u201d \u201cfor granted,\u201d and was promptly accused of being arrogant.<\/p>\n Praising his own work as an actor, the 30-year-old star said: \u201cThis is probably my best performance, you know, and it\u2019s been, like, seven, eight years that I feel like I\u2019ve been handing in really, really committed top-of-the-line performances. And it\u2019s important to say it out loud, because the discipline and the work ethic I\u2019m bringing to these things \u2014 I don\u2019t want people to take it for granted. I don\u2019t want to take it for granted. This is really some top-level shit.\u201d<\/p>\n Shortly afterward, Timmy went viral again after he appeared to suggest<\/a> that he believes he\u2019ll have an Oscar by the summer. For reference, when this interview took place, Timoth\u00e9e had not yet been nominated, although he has been since.<\/p>\n In an interview with ABC<\/a>, Timoth\u00e9e said of Marty Supreme: \u201cThe bigger, more important thing is I want the movie to succeed, and I want everything to win in the film industry.\u201d When pressed on how he personally measures the film’s success, Timoth\u00e9e went on: \u201cThis is a real conversation, I\u2019m trying to keep my PR brain on\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cBut the real truth is, with Marty Supreme, I feel confident to the degree that by next summer\u2026\u201d he then hesitated as he stumbled over his words. \u201cI don\u2019t know, man, should I not be saying this? \u2026 I feel like\u2026 I\u2019m confident I know what it\u2019s gonna be by next summer.\u201d<\/p>\n While Timoth\u00e9e didn\u2019t explicitly say that he believes he\u2019ll win the Oscar, many interpreted his comments to be referencing this \u2014 highlighting the fact that he said he wants the movie to \u201cwin in the film industry.\u201d And this self-assuredness was considered pretty off-putting<\/a>, with a now-deleted viral tweet reading: \u201che\u2019s a great actor who i\u2019m sure will win an oscar one day and will deserve it but currently he\u2019s displaying levels of delulu we\u2019ve never seen before and it\u2019s embarrassing to watch.\u201d<\/p>\n And discourse surrounding Timoth\u00e9e has erupted once again after he insisted that he has a \u201cunique talent\u201d and works harder than anybody else he knows in a new interview with France Inter<\/a>.<\/p>\n It\u2019s worth noting that this interview took place in French, and Timoth\u00e9e\u2019s quotes have been translated. Speaking to the publication, he says in the video: \u201cI knew \u2014 I know it\u2019s not normal to talk about yourself like this \u2014 but I knew I had a pretty unique talent. And I know that I work, honestly\u2026 I work harder than almost everyone I know.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThat makes me laugh, because we all buy into this Hollywood dream that\u2019s sold to actors and actresses, like: \u2018Yeah, it\u2019s chill, it\u2019s Los Angeles, it\u2019s nice cars,\u2019 stuff like that,\u201d he went on. \u201cThat\u2019s the dream that\u2019s been around for a hundred years, before me, you know? For all of us. But I really have an athlete\u2019s mindset in how I work. And people can make fun of it, they can laugh, but I don\u2019t care. I\u2019m the one doing it. And it works.\u201d<\/p>\n Needless to say, these comments have not landed well, with one person writing<\/a> on a Reddit forum: \u201cThe cleaner at his mansion who scrubs shit from his toilet works harder than him flying first class to award shows then to yachts most of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThis is what gets me about wealthy people,\u201d another added<\/a>. \u201cAbsolutely no self reflection on their privilege or the literal army of much lower wage workers (cleaners, drivers, cooks, nannies, stylists, makeup artists, PR people, assistants etc.) propping up this \u2018hard work.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cpeople call female artists \u2018narcissists\u2019 for way less. i’m tired,\u201d one more wrote<\/a>, to which somebody else replied<\/a>: \u201cI can’t imagine any female celebrity talking like this without getting the most deranged backlash.\u201d<\/p>\n And, reacting to Timmy\u2019s comment that he is one of the hardest-working people he knows, one more quipped<\/a>: \u201cHe should meet more people.\u201d<\/p>\n You can watch the full clip here<\/a>, but remember, it is in French! What do you make of Timmy\u2019s comments? Let me know down below.<\/p>\n