Following his latest nominated performance, Timothée Chalamet is opening up about the unfortunate reality of awards season.
The A Complete Unknown star, who recently secured his fourth Golden Globe nomination for playing Bob Dylan, shared his honest experience after losing the awards for his roles in Call Me By Your Name (2017), Beautiful Boy (2018) and Wonka (2023).
“I’ll just say this — there’s nothing more uniquely hilarious, and something you cannot share with anyone, when you get home and you tear up the little thing that you never had to use,” said Chalamet on SiriusXM. “And you think to yourself, ‘You narcissistic arrogant prick. On what planet did you think you were going to use this?’”
Chalamet’s radio appearance comes after he earned a Best Actor in a Motion Picture — Drama nomination for his performance as Dylan in co-writer/director James Mangold‘s A Complete Unknown.
Premiering Dec. 25 in theaters, the biopic follows an enigmatic 19-year-old from Minnesota who arrives in NYC in 1961 with his guitar and revolutionary talent, destined to change the course of American music. He forges intimate relationships with music icons of Greenwich Village on his meteoric rise, culminating in a groundbreaking and controversial performance that reverberates worldwide.
Edward Norton and Timothée Chalamet in A Complete Unknown (Macall Polay/Searchlight Pictures)
Macall Polay, Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures
A Complete Unknown also stars Edward Norton as Pete Seeger, Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez, Elle Fanning as Sylvie Russo, Boyd Holbrook as Johnny Cash, Will Harrison as Bob Neuwirth and more.
Chalamet previously told Deadline on the red carpet of the film’s Los Angeles premiere of working with Norton on their portrayals, “We were like a menace to Jim because we were always trying to sneak stuff in and honor these amazing artists. My favorite thing about Edward in the production of this movie and also after this, is he really wanted to honor the spirit of Bob — who is alive and well — and Pete Seeger through this press, and not compromise why we’re ultimately there, the sort of pure values that you kind of have to when you’re putting a movie out there. But I think Edward’s always been very clear-sighted about that.”