Not bad, kid: Timothée Chalamet, who earned an Oscar nomination for playing Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown, hit a major milestone today.
The 29-year-old the youngest actor to become a two-time Oscar nominee since James Dean. Chalamet’s last nomination was in 2018 for Call Me By Your Name.
Dean was nominated in 1956 for East of Eden and for Giant a year later. He was only 24. (He died at the age in 1955).
Chalamet will have an opportunity to crow on Saturday when he hosts SNL. He’s also serving as musical guest and is likely to perform at least a Dylan song or two, given his singing for the role in A Complete Unknown.
In a promo released Wednesday, Chalamet played off the recent craze for Chalamet look-a-like contests by recruiting some of the kinda-sorta lookalikes to help with his duties. One lucky faux-Timmy gets to appear on the Tonight Show, much to the apparent concern of host Jimmy Fallon.
“I’ve never done this before,” Chalamet says at the start of the promo, chatting with his stand-ins (one in Wonka drag, a Dylan, a couple of red carpets looks). “You know, I’m having to be SNL host and musical guest in the same week, so it’s a lot of work and I want to focus on the songs.”
