How Chalamet, Oscar-nominated as Bob Dylan, became…
Timothée Chalamet is profitable — and never simply on the Screen Actors Guild Awards, the place he took the best actor prize on Sunday night time.
The 29-year-old SAG victor for “A Complete Unknown” — through which he transforms into Bob Dylan — can also be profitable over indie artists who’re calling out Chalamet’s title in music.
Singer-songwriter Kate Eberstadt is the newest to present titular tribute to the star of “Call Me By Your Name,” “Dune” and “Wonka” on her new single “Timmy Chalamet.”
Timothée Chalamet attended the Rome premiere of “A Complete Unknown” in January. IPA / SplashNews.com
Timothée Chalamet reworked into Bob Dylan in “A Complete Unknown” with intensive vocal and instrumental coaching. ©Searchlight Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection
On the breezy, bittersweet breakup music, she sings, “I wanna drink champagne with Timmy Chalamet/Alone in the church in the middle of the day/Go to confession, tell him what I wanna say/I wanna drink champagne with Timmy Chalamet/Chillin’ in the chapel watchin’ ‘Fifty Shades of Grey.’”
The music was impressed by the Brooklyn-based artist’s real-life break up. “The person that I had been dating and living with and I thought that I was going to marry broke up with me over the phone,” Eberstadt, 33, advised The Post. “I used to be spiraling and simply felt misplaced.
“And I had recently re-watched ‘Call Me by Your Name,’ and was just so moved by Timothée’s performance in that movie… especially the fireplace scene where he’s crying by the fire. It just felt like pure heartbreak happening right onscreen, and I felt like he would understand what I was going through.”
But Eberstadt says that she isn’t essentially pining over Kylie Jenner’s man within the music.
“It’s definitely up for interpretation,” she mentioned. “I think there are some kind of discreet romantic undertones in the song. But I think, even more than that, to me it’s [about] just connection and, like, feeling lonely … And wouldn’t that be fun to just escape all your problems and go hang out with your favorite celebrity or some artist that you really admire?”
It’s a bond that Chalamet has made with younger artists of his era who each idolize him — for his expertise, fashion and heartthrob seems — and relate to him.
“He’s really an artist’s artist,” mentioned Kate Eberstadt of the actor who will get titular tribute in her new single “Timmy Chalamet.” Kai Ravelson Madden
“I first of all just admire him a lot as an artist. He’s really an artist’s artist,” mentioned Eberstadt. “There’s also something about parasocial relationships. We kind of just feel close to people that we see on those big screens all the time, and with social media, that’s even more true and more real.”
But with Chalamet, there’s a familiarity regardless of his fame. “For my generation, we all had that kid in our theater class,” she mentioned. “We know that kid.”
Eberstadt was among the many hundreds who attended final October’s Timothée Chalamet lookalike contest at Washington Square Park in NYC’s Greenwich Village. “I saw so many people feeling the same way that I felt in the flesh,” she mentioned.
Timothée Chalamet hosted and served as musical visitor of “Saturday Night Live” in January. AP
But she really had a nearer connection to Chalamet than most.
“We were almost in, like, similar circles, because he was in the NYC theater world, and so was I,” mentioned Eberstadt. “And also he was at Columbia University at the same time that I was there. Some of my friends were either friends with him or, like, interacting with him somehow. So we were, like, one degree away from each other for a little bit.”
Now, the “Call Me By Your Name”-inspired video for “Timmy Chalamet” is out this week — simply as he vies for best actor on the Oscars on Sunday.
Timothée Chalamet obtained the primary of his two best actor Oscar nominations for 2017’s “Call Me By Your Name.” ©Sony Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection
“It really is serendipitous timing,” mentioned Eberstadt, whose solo album “Heaven on Earth” will probably be out in June.
But she’s not alone in displaying musical love for Chalamet. Here are another artists who’ve additionally been preserving in tune with Timothée.
The Foxies, “Timothée Chalamet”
This Nashville-based energy trio is in a Chalamet chokehold on this blissful bop from 2021.
Sample lyrics: “I get lost in the look on your face/When you talk to me like Timothée Chalamet/When I’m dreamin’, when I’m awake/I need somebody like you or Timothée Chalamet”
Timothée Chalamet attended the Santa Barbara International Film Festival in February. ZUMAPRESS.com / MEGA
Sofy, “Timothée Chalamet”
This British indie popster coos about Chalamet on this guitar-charged come-on from 2023.
Sample lyrics: “Touch me while you call your ex then/You call me by your name/What would the neighbors say?/While we’re French kissin’ in the car/Timothée Chalamet”
Gah Ming, “Timothée Chalamet”
This Canadian artist mixes hip-hop and Beck-esque alt-rock as he vibes out about Chalamet on this horny, moody groove from 2021.
Sample lyrics: “Ain’t no other on your brain/Than Timothée Chalamet/At the Chalamet cabaret/With some Timothée supper, Chalamet gourmet/Timothée Chalamet, as charming as a summer day/Timothée Chalamet, I mean what else is there to say?”
Timothée Chalamet attended the “Saturday Night Live” after-party after pulling double obligation on the show in January. GC Images
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This 2023 Chalamet shout-out low-key flexes just like the two-time Oscar nominee to a trap-pop beat.
Sample lyrics: “Skinny boy swag rockin’ Timbs, call that Chalamet/Chalamet paparazzi when I walk in … Camera flash ‘cause I’m walking with the swag now/You about to lose all your fans, you should tap out”
Riley Aaron, “Chalamet”
While Chalamet was on the heart of a love triangle in 2019’s “Little Women,” the identical yr he was additionally the subject of this hip-hop homage.
Sample lyrics: “My life is a movie/Cameras wanna shoot me/’Cause I look like I’m Timmy/And she f—king wit’ me/But you just wanna date ’cause I look like Chalamet/Girl get out my way, you just tryna ride my wave”
Ravin McKelvy, “Timothée Chalamet”
On this bouncy pop ditty from 2022, McKelvy has desires of discovering a Timothée Chalamet to call her own.
Sample lyrics: “I saw you stare from across the room/Got out my chair and made my way to you/You pulled me close just so you could say/Call me by your name, I’ll be your Timothée Chalamet”
Timothée Chalamet received his first Screen Actors Guild Award for best actor in “A Complete Unknown” on Sunday. REUTERS
Hippies and Assassins, “Timothy [sic] Chalamet”
Chalamet was as soon as a rapper by the title of Lil Timmy Tim whereas attending NYC’s La Guardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, so he may pimp-stroll alongside to the gangsta groove of this 2024 hip-hop monitor.
Sample lyrics: “They should put me in the movies like Timothée Chalamet/Facebook moms call me Timothée Chalamet/Bitch with me look like Zendaya/Like Chalamet”
Julia Kate, “Timothée Chalamet”
This California songbird longs to flee away with Chalamet on this diary-entry fantasy from 2022.
Sample lyrics: “Timothée Chalamet, take me away … Call me by your name and I’ll let you in/Let’s ditch this crowd, they’re way too loud/They’re bumming me out”
Timothée Chalamet is up for best actor on the Oscars on Sunday for his efficiency in “A Complete Unknown.” ©Searchlight Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection
Nefarious Vigilante, “Chalamet”
This Brooklyn underground rapper puffs his chest out as he makes like Chalamet on this 2022 monitor.
Sample lyrics: “Inflate my ego/My insecurities washed away/I feel like I’m Chalamet/About time I caught a break”
Maisie Peters, “Timothée Chalamazing”
This British singer-songwriter made up this Timmy tune on the “Not Another Love Song” podcast in 2021.
Sample lyrics: “Timothée, I like your hair/And I’d cling to you like the clothes you wear/And I don’t know if you’re awarе/What you mean to me/Oh Timothée, I’m always therе”
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