Timothée Chalamet is totally electrical.
The 28-year-old actor would be the man of the hour at Sunday’s Golden Globes, as two of his movies — “Dune Part Two” and “A Complete Unknown” — are up towards one another within the Finest Drama class, whereas Chalamet himself is nominated for greatest actor in a drama, for the latter
It’s his show-stopping portrayal of music icon Bob Dylan, Hollywood insiders say, that has propelled the actor to critical leading-man standing and positioned him as a grown-up in a method that his beforehand nominated roles, together with “Call Me By Your Name” and “Wonka,” didn’t fairly.
In “A Complete Unknown,” Chalamet sings over 40 songs together with “Girl From North Country,” “Like a Rolling Stone” and “The Times They are A Changin,” and performs the guitar and harmonica — incomes reward from Dylan himself, who raved on X in December, “Timmy’s a brilliant actor.”
“He carries that ‘stubborn artist’ to a genius [level],” Danny Rosner, producer of the upcoming movie “The Hotel Martinez,” instructed The Submit of Chalamet. “It’s a dream role especially because he can sing. They didn’t have to do much but let him perform … the role allowed him to go quite far out, showing the full range. The acting is unquestionably solid. I hope he wins.”
Off display screen, the zillennial already received the promotion sport this awards season.
He flexed soccer data on ESPN, schooled podcaster Theo Von on inexpensive middle-class housing in New York Metropolis (Chalamet grew up in Manhattan Plaza, a backed Mitchell-Lama constructing for artists), and dropped in on a Minnesota marching band rehearsal as a part of his unconventional press tour for “A Complete Unknown.”
When his floppy hair and “sexy rat” seems to be impressed 1000’s of doppelgangers to point out up in Washington Sq. Park for a Timothée Chalamet lookalike contest in October, the good-natured actor dropped by to test it out.
“He was already a young movie star with a great career, but this pushes him up a couple notches. He could get nominated for an Academy Award and he could easily win,” a former studio government instructed The Submit of the present buzz. “If I was an agent, I’d want to be representing him right now.”
The 12 months of Timmy has been capped off by him casually relationship Kardashian-adjacent actuality star and cosmetics entrepreneur Kylie Jenner. The 2 have been linked since April 2023, however a Jenner supply instructed The Submit that they’re “comfortable to simply be within the second, have time, and never stress about what the long run holds.
“They’re good for each other because they both have tendencies to get a little brooding and in their own heads about things, and they lighten each other up,” the supply added.
“Brooding” is the best tone for enjoying Dylan, and Chalamet spent 5 years working with a vocal and dialect coach to good the folk-rock singer’s nasally rasp.
Larry “Ratso” Sloman, who wrote the biography “On the Road with Bob Dylan” and likewise stars reverse Chalamet within the the upcoming film “Marty Supreme,” was impressed by the actor.
“Timmy’s a very down-to-Earth guy. In one scene, I’m having him kicked out of my room. We were fighting and he was so into the scene that he accidentally spit on me. After we cut, he came over and apologized,” Sloman, who’s engaged on the upcoming podcast “The Lost Leonard Cohen Tapes,” instructed The Submit.
“He’s so focused. He just wants to get the scene right. He spent five years getting ready for the Dylan role. He went to Bob’s old house [in Minnesota] where he grew up. [Dylan] is a shape shifter — he takes on different identities, he’s always changing,” Sloman mentioned. “I thought Timmy did an amazing job of capturing that essence. I was very awestruck by that. The other thing about him is, he’s a huge Dylan fan. There’s some actors who play a role and forget about it. He’s still a tremendous fan of Bob’s.”
As a teen, Chalamet, who dated Madonna’s daughter Lourdes Leon whereas attending LaGuardia Excessive College in Manhattan, didn’t land roles in motion motion pictures “Maze Runner” and “Divergent.”
“I would always get the same feedback. ‘Oh, you don’t have the right body.’ I had an agent call me once and say, ‘I’m tired of getting the same feedback. We’re gonna stop submitting you for these bigger projects, because you’re not putting on weight,’” Chalamet instructed Rolling Stone.
As an alternative, he turned to indie movies, enjoying a womanizing boyfriend in “Lady Bird,” a recovering meth addict in “Beautiful Boy,” Laurie in “Little Women” and a sexually woke up 17-year-old in “Call Me By Your Name,” which earned him an Oscar nomination.
“I was knocking on one door that wouldn’t open,” he instructed Rolling Stone. “So I went to what I thought was a more humble door, but actually ended up being explosive for me.”
Regardless of his girlfriend’s excessive profile, Chalamet and Jenner have managed to maintain their relationship largely out of the general public eye, like after they slipped the West Village pizza restaurant Little Charli in October.
“We recognized him solely from his eyes. It was very low key, they were both dressed down — she had on jeans and a white T-shirt, and he was wearing a blue hoodie … No security, no entourage, just the two of them,” a rep for the restaurant instructed The Submit.
“They were trying to be incognito and keep a low profile, like two giddy high-schoolers on a secret date. They were super cute, giggling and whispering to each other. It was adorable. They were very lovey-dovey, like a couple that’s been together a while,” the rep mentioned.
The Jenner supply mentioned Chalamet is strictly what the 27-year-old mom-of-two wants proper now.
“She was 20 going on 40 for a long long time. So now she’s happy to sort of make up for all the years when her peers were out sewing their wild oats while she was being a mama and a CEO and practically a wife [to rapper Travis Scott], and just have a relationship that’s fun and minimal drama, low stakes,” he supply mentioned. “Timothée isn’t trying to get married or critically cool down any time quickly, and Kylie completely doesn’t need something that critical both.
It’s unclear if Jenner shall be at this 12 months’s Golden Globes, although she was by Chalamet’s facet within the viewers when he was nominated final 12 months for “Wonka.”
“They looked happy,” an insider mentioned. “They were still shy, kind of. It was low key.”
When requested if he writes his award present acceptance speeches forward of time, on SirusXM’s “The Morning Mashup” final month, Chalamet mentioned, “There’s nothing more uniquely hilarious, and something you cannot share with anyone, [than] when you get home and you tear up the little thing [speech] that you never had to use and you think to yourself, ‘You narcissistic, arrogant prick. On what planet did you think you were gonna use this?’”
However Chalamet was very excited for the man who received that lookalike contest within the fall.
“He immediately asked, ‘What place did you get?’ I said, ‘First.’ His face lit up. He said, ‘No way, we need to take a picture,’” mentioned Miles Mitchell, 21, who received the $50 prize dressed as Chalamet’s Willy Wonka characer. “That goes to show he is a really cool guy.”
