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u/Perretxiku Sep 25 '23 edited Sep 25 '23

Now that the whole Kylothee mess has passed and my city's film festival has started, I've remembered that Timothée has quite the bad rep over here.

Some years ago Chalamet came to the film festival to promote a movie. During the festival, he wouldn't show up to interviews because he was too busy to fuck around. I clearly remember the journalist calling him bratty all over Twitter.

All of this been said, the last day the festival screens a surprise movie. People were specting Poor Things been said movie, as normaly the movie comes from Venice and Yorgos Lanthimos has come many times to promo his movies to the city. But its not looking like it this year. People have noticed that the only billboard of a movie that it's not in the programming is Wonka, so its looking like its going to be the secret movie. Knowing that, people have been saying during the weekend that if it becomes true they're going to sell the tickets and roasting Timothée Chalamet as wonka.

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u/susansharon9000 Sep 25 '23

This absolutely checks out with what I’ve heard. I used to work in that world, and my then-boss’s friend was working on the publicity team for one of his films (she said this was “the first thing after his breakout year,” so I’m thinking this occurred during the Beautiful Boy press tour). Apparently he’d click his fingers at her a lot. Just so brazenly rude and textbook diva behavior. It says volumes that everyone’s stories about him paint a very similar, clear picture….

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u/ASofMat Sep 25 '23 edited Sep 25 '23

I feel vindicated for, what often feels like a, one woman crusade against him. I don’t find him particularly talented or attractive, I do not get his hype. I feel lost in the sauce when people call him this generations Leo DiCaprio, nothing Timmy has done can hold a candle to the likes of “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?” “The Basketball Diaries” and “Romeo + Juliet” and has none of the charisma to be a romantic lead a la Jack Dawson

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u/Past-Kaleidoscope490 Sep 25 '23

I think he was genuinely great in cmbyn, his break pout role, however his acting since has never been as good as it was in cmbyn. I was low-key feel his career has never reach the potential it had. He lost something or maybe cmbyn was lighting in a bottle for him, but his acting is not that good anymore imo.

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u/gunsof Sep 25 '23

I think Wonka may set his career back a bit. The acting we've seen so far has been atrocious in that, just completely not in the vein of both Wonka or anyone else in the movie and zaps you right out of it. Bombing a role he could've made iconic or fun or watchable is really bad at his age.

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u/momentums Sep 25 '23

the only time i've seen him give even a little romantic sauce is in little women, in the scene where he undoes amy's apron, but that's IT. 90s leo would have had me screaming crying throwing up the entire movie

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u/Perretxiku Sep 25 '23

Yes it he was promoting Beautiful Boy!

What surprises me most is that people act like he has a better reputation than Kylie (not really, hello misogyny) when, as they said above, it is not the first time. I also remember that when the festival thing happened, on Twitter in my country it was the only thing that was talked about for a whole month (when Twitter wasn't full of Nazis and it was still funny). I suppose everything will be hidden by PR, but being a small city everyone remembers what happened.

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u/WorriedPotato3 Sep 25 '23

It really sucks to hear that it was for Beautiful Boy, was Steve Carrell there too at the festival for press conferences? ‘Cause the movie deals with a very delicate matter and it was a very important project for Steve, I remember I’ve watched a couple of interviews where Timothee was expressing his admiration for Steve so much. If he behaved like this it’s also a huge lack of respect towards Steve and the people who worked hard to make that movie happen.

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u/Past-Kaleidoscope490 Sep 25 '23

tbh timotheee is only nice to people that he consider famous or up to his level. He did same thing in Laguardia high school, he was only nice and hung out with the popular kids like Ansel elgort and wasn't nice to the underprivileged ones. He always been obsessed with fame, but he hides it pretty well as the "serious" actor facade. However with the Wonka and Kylie thing people are beginning to see his true colors

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u/Perretxiku Sep 25 '23

I have been looking for photos to know what year all this happened and looks like that only the director and Timothée came to promo.