From heartthrob to hearteater. Timothée Chalamet is in his gorecore era, and has revealed that things are only going to get more bloody in his films.
The actor - about to star as a cannibal in Luca Guadagnino’s Bones And All - took to the blood-red carpet (fitting) at the London Film Festival at the weekend, and quipped of eating human flesh: “Yes, that’s a first, in a film or in life.”
He added: “It’s funny because I’m shooting Dune [Part Two] right now in Budapest and without giving too much away there’s a good amount of blood in that too, so Denis [Villeneuve, director] can write a thank you to Luca because he kind of got me prepped.”
Chalamet, 26, plays Lee in the ‘80s-set film, who in a Romeo and Juliet-esque inspiration, then meets and falls in love with fellow cannibal, Maren (Taylor Russell), who clash with another of their kind, Sully (Mark Rylance), while fleeing across the country.
Chalamet explained his attraction to the dark side on screen: “I wanted to work with Luca again and there’s something about an on-the-road movie like Badlands or Bonnie and Clyde, or movies with not a higher ethical purpose necessarily, but that nonetheless, like a TV show like Breaking Bad, endears you to the characters. That was interesting to wrestle with.”
The American actor is also set to play a young Willy Wonka in the up-coming origin-story of sorts of the eccentric chocolatier in Wonka - here’s betting that’s another character with some dark, gruesome stories in his past, too.
