Timothée Chalamet claims parents "cursed him" with name
Wonka star Timothée Chalamet has claimed his parents "cursed him" with his name.
Despite being an Academy Award nominee, having recently fronted a musical blockbuster that passed the $500 million mark at the box office and generally being one of the most in-demand actors of his generation, Chalamet is convinced that his name is the source of all of his misfortune.
Appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live! to promote Dune 2 on Thursday (February 1), the Call Me By Your Name star revealed that his parents "cursed" him, by giving him a name no-one could pronounce.
"Honestly it's 'Tim-oh-teh,'" Chalamet said. "But I would not oblige you to say it like that and it can be Timothy or Timmy or Doug or Allen," he joked.
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"Tim-oh-teh?" asked Kimmel, to which Chalamet continued: "That's what it was supposed to be – my parents cursed me with that."
He then added: “My middle name is Hal, which breaks it up in a bizarre way."
Co-star Florence Pugh joked: “That’s not the flow.”
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Chalamet will reprise his role of Paul Atreides in sci-fi epic Dune: Part Two – the release date of which (March 1) is fast approaching.
However the film, which co-stars Zendaya, Austin Butler, Rebecca Ferguson and more alongside Chalamet and Pugh, is set to be even more tragic than the Frank Herbert book it's based on, according to director Denis Villeneuve.
"All of the elements are there. But I think the movie adaptation is more tragic than the book," Villeneuve explained to Total Film. "The way that Part Two ends... it would create a total balance and equilibrium to finish Paul's storyline in what we could say in Part Three."
Wonka is available to buy or, rent from outlets including Prime Video and iTunes in the UK.
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