CNN
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Timothée Chalamet has shared a narrative that makes clear girls in Hollywood aren’t the one ones being judged for his or her bodily appearances.
The “Dune” star talked to Apple Music’s Zane Lowe about his expertise early in his profession.
“If I auditioned for ‘The Maze Runner’ or ‘Divergent,’ issues of that selection that have been popping once I was arising, the suggestions was all the time, ‘Oh, you don’t have the suitable physique,’” Chalamet stated. “I had an agent that known as me and stated, ‘You bought to placed on weight,’ mainly — not aggressively, however you already know.”
Chalamet stars because the legendary singer Bob Dylan within the forthcoming music biopic, “A Full Unknown.” He likened their paths to one another given how Chalamet stated he “discovered my method into these very personalised films.”
“For [Dylan], it was folks music,” Chalamet stated. “He couldn’t hold a rock and roll band as a result of they’d all get employed by different youngsters that had more cash, actually, in Minnesota.”
The challenge has been significant to the star.
“I’m now deep within the church of Bob,” he stated. “And I really feel like I get this chance to type of be a bridge to this music.”
Chalamet’s path to extra business movies like “Wonka” and the “Dune” franchise began with him doing smaller manufacturing films like “Name Me by Your Title,” “Stunning Boy,” and “Little Girls,” which didn’t require him to alter his physique.
“These have been smaller finances, however very — I don’t know the way else to place it — personable films that began on this theater area,” he stated. “That is the place I discovered my rhythm, my confidence, my circulate, no matter you need to name it.”
“A Full Unknown” hits theaters on Christmas Day.