In 2018, Timothée Chalamet met Leonardo Dicaprio, who would be his on-screen partner in Netflix’s fierce comedy “Don’t Look up”. And the latter gave him a rather wise advice, just to last in the profession…
In the latest issue of UK version of Vogue magazine, Timothée Chalamet is the subject of a long portrait. The 26-year-old actor was present at the Venice Film Festival to present Bones and All, alongside filmmaker Luca Guadagnino, who had contributed a lot to putting the actor into orbit with Call me by Your Name, in 2017.
The portrait of Chalamet is completed by advice that Leonardo Dicaprio had sent him when the two met in 2018. His partner in Don’t Look Up by Adam McKay, a big success on Netflix at the end of last year, told him thus said: “Don’t take hard drugs, and don’t star in superhero movies!”
The important thing in the profession is to last. Try not to explode mid-flight by burning life at both ends and making risky artistic choices. Difficult to comment on the potential drug use in the actor.
But he displays an eclectic filmography and until then rather demanding, oscillating between the western (Hostiles), the drama (My Beautiful Boy), the historical film (The king) or the SF (Dune), to name only this handful of examples. And has actually not yet yielded to the sirens of films from the Marvel or DC stable.
On the side of King Leo, who has a lot of films on his list, he is still one of the rare actors of his generation not to have starred in a superhero film. What no doubt also please his mentor, Martin Scorsese, who had set fire to the powder by comparing superhero films to amusement parks.