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Both he and Emma look amazing here
Both he and Emma look amazing here
wmagazineTimothée Chalamet in Beautiful Boy
“Beautiful Boy [which is about a father and his son, who is addicted to drugs] was a script they’d been trying to get made for 10 years. Every guy actor my age had gone up for it. I’ve been lucky, but a lot of the bigger Hollywood movies like Spider-Man, things like that, I didn’t get. So, for Beautiful Boy, I did a lot of research and read about drugs, and I brought the books to my first meeting with the director. I could see in his eyes that he was thinking, This kid is nuts. But I felt this movie—the subject of drug addiction—was so important. I wanted to make an anti-glorification-of-drugs movie. And I think we did.”
Did you meet Nic Sheff, whom you play in the film?
Yes. I met him a week before we started shooting. And there was nothing about Nic that fit my stereotype of an addict. That was the learning grace of this movie: Nic is alive and well, but the reality is, it’s a day at a time. You never really beat it.
You lost so much weight. Was your mom worried about you?
My mom was worried! I lost 18 pounds. First, I’m in a movie where I was having sex with a peach, and then it was like, “I got another movie!” She said, “Great!” And then I had to tell her what it was about.
Charvet shirt.
Timothée CHALAMET
Hometown: New York, New York
Films: 12
Prestige TV Breakthrough: Homeland, Season Two
Most Recently Seen: Giving the mystery of addiction a frighteningly believable, deeply human face in drug-epidemic drama Beautiful Boy
Coming Attractions: Going 19th-century in Greta Gerwig’s Little Women, 15th-century in Netflix’s The King, as Henry V, and rebooting Dune with Denis Villeneuve
Academy Award Nomination: Best actor, 2018 (Call Me by Your Name)
“Vanity Fair is an American institution, so to be in it in any capacity is an honor, but to be on the cover with actors I really admire and respect, it’s a pinch-me moment.”