Timothée Chalamet previously had doubts about becoming an actor.
The 29-year-old actor grew up in Latest York City, and while he was around many creative up-and-coming performers, he recognized the struggles many actors endure when attempting to make it. While speaking with Anderson Cooper on a recent episode of 60 Minutes, Cooper and Chalamet visited a constructing within the Theatre District that Chalamet lived in — a rent-subsidized constructing full of artists.
“This constructing truthfully made me fearful of acting since it’s a troublesome lifestyle and numerous people aren’t doing fantastically,” the actor said.
Cooper mentioned to Chalamet that he’d assume growing up in that sort of atmosphere would “encourage” him to pursue the humanities. As an alternative, it was the alternative for Chalamet.
“It actually terrified me of becoming an actor,” the Wonka star recalled.
Regardless that his family was immersed in the humanities, his mom was a dancer and his sister, Pauline Chalamet, also acted and is most known for her role in The Sex Lives of College Girls. The Oscar nominee shared with Cooper that his dad told him to “be normal.”
“It’s no place for a toddler. It really isn’t,” Chalamet said of acting as a child. “The cameras and folks going, ‘Hey, do the thing where we recognize you as cute in your individual head.’”
Nonetheless, Chalamet ultimately decided to pursue the humanities and has grow to be a household name. He’s received two Oscar nominations thus far in his profession for his work in 2017’s Call Me by Your Name and, mostly recently, last yr’s A Complete Unknown, where he played Bob Dylan and received rave reviews for his performance.
The press tour for the biopic has gained numerous attention on social media. Leading as much as the film’s Christmas release, Dylan even tweeted about Chalamet, praising him for taking over the role. “Timmy’s an excellent actor so I’m sure he’s going to be completely believable as me,” Dylan wrote on X.
While Dylan and Chalamet still haven’t met, Chalamet jokes that if he ever does meet the “Blowin’ In The Wind” singer, he would attempt to avoid talking concerning the movie in an try and “out Bob him” and discuss “the weather” or his “favorite sandwich.”
