Timothée Chalamet is answering the question everyone wants to know around awards season: what do you do with a prepared acceptance speech when you don’t actually win?
Chalamet, 28, recently appeared on SiriusXM’s The Morning Mashup to promote his upcoming Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, where cohost Nicole Ryan asked the actor whether he writes his awards show acceptance speeches ahead of time.
“What a great question ’cause like you said, this is my fourth Golden Globe nomination,” the actor said. “Look, I’ll just say this… there’s nothing more uniquely hilarious and something you cannot share with anyone when you get home and you tear up the little thing that you never had to use and you think to yourself, ‘You narcissistic arrogant prick. On what planet did you think you were gonna use this?’ “
Chalamet has received nominations for his performance as Dylan, now 83, at the upcoming Golden Globe Awards and Critics Choice Awards, both of which will be held in January. He was previously nominated at the Golden Globes for his performances in Wonka, Beautiful Boy and Call Me by Your Name; the latter two movies also landed him Critics Choice nominations, and Call Me by Your Name saw Chalamet receive his first Academy Awards nomination back in 2018.
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The actor has been undertaking a wide-ranging press tour to promote A Complete Unknown, in which he plays folk and rock music legend Dylan during the 1960s. The movie also stars Edward Norton as Pete Seeger, Elle Fanning as Sylvie Russo, Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez, Boyd Holbrook as Johnny Cash and Scoot McNairy as Woody Guthrie, among others. Director James Mangold cowrote the film’s script with Jay Cocks, adapted from Elijah Wald’s 2015 biography Dylan Goes Electric!
That press tour has taken Chalamet everywhere from the set of ESPN’s College GameDay to talk college football to a pier in New York City, where he shared a full-length video of himself singing along to Dylan’s 1966 classic “Visions of Johanna.”
The actor attended A Complete Unknown‘s Los Angeles premiere on Dec. 10 and spent time with girlfriend Kylie Jenner at the premiere’s afterparty. Chalamet also went viral recently in a video that showed him meeting Miles Mitchell, who won the Chalamet-themed lookalike contest held in N.Y.C. back in October, following a film screening the actor appeared at.
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