Till in the present day, Timothée Chalamet—famous style man—had surprisingly by no means starred in a significant model marketing campaign. That every one modified this morning, when Chanel introduced the red-hot actor as the most recent face of Bleu de Chanel, the French luxurious home’s top-selling males’s perfume.
Rumors about Chalamet’s potential Chanel ambassadorship cropped up on-line just a few weeks in the past, when paparazzi and onlookers alike snapped the actor filming a Martin Scorsese-directed advert spot for the perfume in New York Metropolis late final month. (Scorsese beforehand directed one other Bleu de Chanel business starring its former longtime ambassador, the late French actor-model Gaspard Ulliel, in 2010.) Although the business—which up to now appears to characteristic Chalamet galavanting round NoHo and on a wet subway platform in Astoria—gained’t be out till the autumn, an accompanying marketing campaign shot by Mario Sorrenti will possible seem on billboards across the metropolis starting in June.
Courtesy of Mario Sorrenti for Chanel
Talking of New York Metropolis: Chalamet, who grew up in Hell’s Kitchen, shared some selection native-Manhattanite soundbites in a Vogue interview tied to the announcement. Maybe the juiciest perception? {That a} teenaged Timmy did most of his buying on the now-shuttered Topshop flagship retailer on Broadway in SoHo. “Actually it was the ladies’s garments at Topshop for me,” he stated. “That’s the stuff that simply match rising up.”
The actor additionally, per an accompanying video, nonetheless maintains his city-bred urge for food: “Bagels are about 95% of this food plan proper right here,” he stated. “They maintain me alive.” Then he added, laughing: “You’re not gonna use that in a Chanel advert.”
In the identical interview, the actor dished on two of his most-discussed upcoming tasks: the Roald Dahl adaptation Wonka, which hits theaters in December, and James Mangold’s Bob Dylan biopic A Full Unknown, which begins filming in New York this summer season. (Each movies are musicals, and Chalamet shall be doing his personal singing in every.) On the Wonka entrance, Chalamet stated he felt compelled “to work on one thing that can have an uncynical younger viewers.”
Chalamet and Martin Scorsese are seen on the Bleu de Chanel business set on April 22, 2023 in New York Metropolis.Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/Getty Photographs
“In a time and local weather of intense political rhetoric,” he stated, “when there’s a lot unhealthy information on a regular basis, that is hopefully going to be a bit of chocolate.”
However the Dylan flick, now years within the making, has been a bit extra difficult. “I’ve been making ready for endlessly,” the actor instructed Vogue with a sigh. The method has included each day classes with a voice coach, which introduced him again to his days at Fiorello H. LaGuardia Excessive Faculty, the performing arts establishment made well-known in Fame.
“I can’t anticipate anybody outdoors of the New York Metropolis public faculty system to know this, however there’s a manufacturing of Cabaret at LaGuardia, class of 2013, you can watch on YouTube,” he stated. “I bear in mind the New York Occasions critic Ben Brantley saying very good issues about it, so I’m going to emphasise that.”
