Timothée Chalamet wasn’t happy with how he made it big in Hollywood. According to the Dune actor, he didn’t like his decision to drop out of college to pursue acting. Although many prominent names followed the same way to make a name in the industry, it wasn’t the same for Chalamet.
The actor who tasted the scent of success so early in his career wasn’t happy with the uncertainty that followed his decision.
Timothée Chalamet has earlier stated how he was turned down for major commercial projects. However, these obstacles couldn’t hold him long and he rose to prominence with his iconic performances in non-franchise movies. The star has enjoyed constant step-by-step growth in his career though he was scared for a bit initially.
What was the scariest year of Timothée Chalamet’s life?
Timothée Chalamet became a household name with movies such as Call Me By Your Name, Lady Bird, Little Women, and Dune. But the actor made a major decision when he left his education midway, long before he started receiving such prominent roles. Soon after bagging a role in Interstellar, the actor was of the notion that he had done something very big and left his education.
When the 27-year-old actor talked with Emma Stone for Variety’s Actors on Actors conversation, he reflected on his mental condition after leaving college. The topic was raised when the Gwen Stacy fame asked Timothée Chalamet about his 2016 movie Miss Stevens. The actor stated:
“I dropped out of college when Interstellar came out to pull up make it a little full circle cuz I was like really I was like this thing’s gonna come out. And I was like and I’ll just, I went for a year. Okay sounds like I’ll ride the path we’re just gonna coast like it was like not a thing. My part wasn’t that big in it I’m like and it was very presumptuous to think otherwise and I took that year off.”
The Dune actor made sure to doesn’t make it look too dramatic. He admitted that many people face greater challenges yet it was the scariest year of his life.
“Yet for me, that was like the scariest year of my life because I didn’t have a career and I had tasted enough of this stuff where I kind of could see what it maybe could be but what there wasn’t presenting itself and I wasn’t in school anymore.”
Watch the full interview here:
It is noteworthy that Timothée Chalamet didn’t have a very big role in Interstellar and it was undoubtedly a risk taken by him. Fortunately, he turned out to be a major box office name with his future projects. The actor who once thought his career to be a “delusional dream” became successful in achieving what he manifested.
Timothée Chalamet called his career a “delusional dream”
In an interview with British Vogue, Timothée Chalamet didn’t hesitate to admit how he thought his career to be a “delusional dream” in his early teens. But eventually, he shaped it more realistically to attain greater levels of success.
“I had a delusional dream in my early teenage years to have, in my late teenage years, an acting career. And in my late teenage years, working on Homeland and starting to do theatre in New York, I felt like I reduced my goal to something more realistic, which was to work in theatre and hopefully make enough money doing either a TV show or something I could sustain myself [with].”
Ultimately, the projects he chose turned out to be his greatest achievements and he enjoyed a smooth transition into stardom- “And then it felt like every dream came true, exponentially. And then life is moving at six million miles per hour.”
The actor who recently made several headlines for his romance with Kylie Jenner cited an important piece of advice that his Don’t Look Up co-star Leonardo DiCaprio shared with him- “No hard drugs and no superhero movies”. Chalamet follows this heartily and is all set to be spotted next as Willy Wonka in his upcoming Wonka and reprise his role as Paul Atreides in Dune: Part Two.
Source: Variety / British Vogue
