{"id":132201,"date":"2024-11-12T05:59:34","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T05:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/12\/timothee-chalamet-reveals-he-was-asked-to-gain-weight-for-2-roles\/"},"modified":"2024-11-12T05:59:34","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T05:59:34","slug":"timothee-chalamet-reveals-he-was-asked-to-gain-weight-for-2-roles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/12\/timothee-chalamet-reveals-he-was-asked-to-gain-weight-for-2-roles\/","title":{"rendered":"Timothee Chalamet Reveals He Was Asked to Gain Weight for 2 Roles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div wp_automatic_readability=\"103.44027666933\">\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ????><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ????><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3785888\" style=\"width: 900px;\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<div class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\" style=\"padding-bottom:150%;\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n Timothee Chalamet<\/span> <span class=\"credit\">John Salangsang\/Golden Globes 2024\/Golden Globes 2024 via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/timothee-chalamet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Timothee Chalamet<\/strong><\/a> was advised to gain weight while auditioning for movie roles earlier in his career.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cIf I auditioned for <i>The Maze Runner <\/i>or <i>Divergent<\/i>, things of that variety that were popping when I was coming up, the feedback was always, \u2018Oh, you don\u2019t have the right body,\u2019\u201d Chalamet, 28, said on the Monday, November 11 episode of Apple Music\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/timoth%C3%A9e-chalamet\/id1461515071?i=1000676531377\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s2\">The Zane Lowe Interview Series<\/span><\/a>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The <i>Dune<\/i> star revealed, \u201cI had an agent that called me and said, \u2018You got to put on weight,\u2019 basically \u2014 not aggressively, but you know.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Rather than beef up for leading man roles in big-budget action flicks, Chalamet gravitated toward smaller films that had a \u201cvery personal style\u201d as well as higher prestige. Those included <i>Lady Bird<\/i>, <i>Little Women <\/i>and <i>Call Me By Your Name<\/i>, for which he earned a Best Actor Oscar nomination in 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article\" wp_automatic_readability=\"13.022332506203\">\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/timothee-chalamet-plays-bob-dylan-in-1st-biopic-set-photos\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Timothee Chalamet Channels Bob Dylan in 1st Set Photos From Biopic<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tTimoth\u00e9e Chalamet is fully embracing his role of Bob Dylan as filming on the A Complete Unknown biopic officially starts. Chalamet, 28, was spotted filming the upcoming movie in New York City on Sunday, March 17, where he completely channeled Dylan, 82. Chalamet got into character in a pair of jeans, a brown jacket and [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThis is where I found my rhythm, my confidence, my flow, whatever you want to call it,\u201d Chalamet explained.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He compared his path to stardom with that of music legend <strong>Bob Dylan<\/strong>, whom he portrays in the upcoming biopic <i>A Complete Unknown<\/i>, which hits theaters on Christmas Day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI found my way into these very personalized movies,\u201d Chalamet said. \u201cFor [Dylan], it was folk music. He couldn\u2019t keep a rock and roll band because they would all get hired by other kids that had more money, literally, in Minnesota.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Chalamet eventually graduated to the big time, headlining the megahit <i>Dune<\/i> movies as well as <i>Wonka<\/i>, which made $634 million at the worldwide box office last year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>A Complete Unknown <\/i>represents a return to character-driven fare for Chalamet, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/timothee-chalamet-sings-in-new-bob-dylan-biopic-trailer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s2\">sings in the trailer<\/span><\/a> that dropped in early October.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \" wp_automatic_readability=\"8.5\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\" wp_automatic_readability=\"7\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Later that month, the actor \u2014 proving that he doesn\u2019t take himself that seriously \u2014\u00a0<\/span>showed up to a Timothee Chalamet look-alike contest in New York City. <i>Us Weekly<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/inside-nycs-timothee-chalamet-look-alike-contest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s2\">was on the scene<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0The actor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DBrNbDhthEI\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s2\">snuck into the crowd<\/span><\/a> in Washington Square Park, sporting a baseball cap and a black mask. After revealing himself, he posed for pictures with some of his doppelgangers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Of all the Timmys in competition, 21-year-old <strong>Miles Mitchell<\/strong> ended up the winner and took home the $50 prize and oversized trophy. Meanwhile, another attendee named <strong>Jared Dylan Borek<\/strong> was looking to scout out the next internet heartthrob for his modeling agency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cIt\u2019s a scrawny white boy parade,\u201d he told <i>Us<\/i>. \u201cIt\u2019s perfect. It\u2019s what we look for. We\u2019ll see how it turns out. I\u2019m hopeful.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-body\/news\/timothee-chalamet-reveals-he-was-asked-to-gain-weight-for-2-roles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Timothee Chalamet John Salangsang\/Golden Globes 2024\/Golden Globes 2024 via Getty Images Timothee Chalamet was advised to gain weight while auditioning for movie roles earlier in his career. \u201cIf I auditioned for The Maze Runner or Divergent, things of that variety that were popping when I was coming up, the feedback was always, \u2018Oh, you don\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":132202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-132201","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}