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Merci, Timothée Chalamet, for Making Tim Baltz Feel Normal
The Righteous Gemstones star opens up about his secret life as Hollywood’s other Timothée.
For years in comedy and show business, the truth of his real name was only something people close to him knew about, but with Chalamet up for Best Actor at the Oscars this weekend for A Complete Unknown, Baltz is ready to break his relative silence about what it’s like living as a Timothée. They lived in the north of France in a town called Roubaix — which, to be honest, is a lot like Joliet, Illinois — then we’d travel around the country. There’s a very interesting book I read by a French writer and comedian, Isabelle Alonso, called L’Exil est mon pays( Exile Is My Country), who was investigating why she was funny and why she gravitated toward comedy, and she settled on this idea, “drôle de la différence,” which means you’re funny because of your difference.
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