Timothée Chalamet was told to gain weight early in his career.
During an interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, published Nov. 11, the 28-year-old actor opened up about his struggles with getting film roles early in his career, recalling the moment his agent told him he didn’t have the body type for it.
“If I auditioned for Maze runner or Divergentthings like that that came up when I was coming up, the feedback was always, ‘Oh, you don’t have the right body,’” he said.
“I had an agent call me and say ‘You need to gain weight’, basically – not aggressively, but you know,” he added.
Chalamet told Lowe that this experience helped him bond and bond with Bob Dylan. He plays Dylan, the singer of “End of the Line” in the upcoming biopic Complete unknown.
“I can relate to some of these things that he went through,” he said. “Bob wanted to be a rock & roll star – Buddy Holly, Little Richard, Elvis Presley – it was the kind of, depending on your point of view, the kind of rice-crispy pop, rock & roll music that was saturated and advertised to kids in the late ’50s. . Equally, I wanted to be a great film actor.”
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Timothee Chalamet (left); Bob Dylan.
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Chalamet explained that instead of gaining weight or changing his body type, he discovered a “very personal style” of films that suited him, noting his roles in Call me by your name, Beautiful Boy, Lady Bird, Little Women, Miss Stevens and Hot summer nights.
“I found my way to these very personalized movies,” he said. “For [Dylan]it was folk music. He couldn’t keep a rock & roll band because they would all be hired by other kids who had more money, literally, in Minnesota. For me, it was about finding a film with a very personal style.”
“They were low-budget films, but very — I don’t know how else to say it — nice films that started in this theater space. This is where I found my rhythm, my confidence, my flow, whatever you want to call it,” he continued.
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