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Timothée Chalamet is regarded as one of the finest young actors in the industry who with his remarkable acting has managed to acquire the attention of the audience as well as the critics across the world, recently graced the covers of TIME Magazine in a monochrome outfit. The actor graces the cover in a black high-neck outfit, teaming up with matching pair of flared trousers and shoes. In another picture, Timothée wears a white shirt. Ace photographer Ruven Afanador shot the cover pictures.
During an interview with the magazine, the 25-year-old actor shared about his experience of working on the movie “Wonka”, which is a prequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to which Timothée said, “It’s a celebration of being off-center and of being OK with the weirder parts of you that don’t quite fit in.” He also shared his first look from the upcoming musical movie in Willy Wonka attire.
Timothée recently spent time at the world-famous Abbey Road studios to record music and shared his experience stating that he felt out of his league. "Like I was desecrating history! It's not mining the darker emotions in life, it's a celebration of being off-center and of being O.K. with the weirder parts of you that don't quite fit in”, he added.
The actor known for his androgynous style revealed acting advice, which was given to him by one of his heroes that eventually helped him to navigate his career and stardom so far. Without revealing the name of his hero, Timothée said, “One of my heroes — I can’t say who or he’d kick my a** — he put his arm around me the first night we met and gave me some advice. No hard drugs — and no superhero movies.'”
Timothée has been rumored to be in talks for a major role in the DCEU's Batman Beyond for years. Despite the lack of concrete news, there was a lot of chatter. Since then, his followers have imagined him as the best Terry McGinnis to Michael Keaton's Batman.
‘Call Me By Your Name actor is yet to appear in a superhero movie was asked about his stardom and he said, "It's a combination of luck and getting good advice early in my career not to pigeonhole myself. I'm figuring it out. On my worst days, I feel the tension in figuring it out. But on my best days, I feel like I'm growing right on time."
Timothée shared that he does not like when someone addresses him as a ‘movie star’ and that term that makes him cringe and he describes is ‘like death’. He prefers to be called just an ‘actor’.
The ‘Dune’ actor was also asked about his ‘Call Me By Your Name’, co-star Armie Hammer on facing rape accusations to which he replied, "I totally get why you're asking me that, but it's a question worthy of a larger conversation, and I don't want to give you a partial response."
Armie Hammer was accused of sexual assault and rape earlier this year in March, which he fiercely denied, along with additional allegations of abuse. Several films, including 'The Offer,' thriller drama 'Billion Dollar Spy,' Jennifer Lopez's action-comedy picture 'Shotgun Wedding,' and the Broadway production 'The Minutes,' among others, suffered a knock as a result of the allegations.
Hammer also rechecked himself into a Florida rehabilitation center in June this year to receive treatment for multiple addiction concerns, following months of sexual abuse allegations.
Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet. Image Source: The Mercury News
Popularly called ‘Timmy’ shared that he wants to use his platform as a public figure thoughtfully, to spread the right kinds of messages out in the world especially when people are following him. Through his social media or platform he wants to work towards raising awareness about mental health, a subject which he wants to see become ‘less of an Instagram slide share and something more intrinsic or climate'.
Talking about his role in ‘Dune’ with Deadline, Timothée said, “I got attached [to the role in Dune] a couple of months after that, and it was nerve-wracking from the announcement, because like I said before, the fans of the book, and the fans of David Lynch version, the computer game, and everything, there’s so much love and strength of feeling. I was grateful to be working on something of this size not only with Denis Villeneuve leading it, who between Polytechnique, Incendies and Prisoners had nailed the smaller indie film across languages, and then had nailed Arrival and Blade Runner, but who, in his own words, he didn’t feel he’d made his greatest film yet. But also, to be working with this cast.”
Timothée Chalamet in 'Dune'. Image Source: Sada El Balad
Denis described Chalemet as ‘a tremendous, amazing, incredible actor’ and said that it was not difficult to convince him because the Oscar nominee loved the script and they wanted to work together. ‘Dune’ also stars Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin, Zendaya, Charlotte Rampling with Jason Momoa, and Javier Bardem and will hit screens on 29th October 2021.
