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Timothée Chalamet Was Told ‘You Don’t Have the Right Body’ for Big Movies Like ‘Maze Runner’ and ‘Divergent’; Agent Advised Him to ‘Put on Weight’
Timothee Chalamet was told to 'put on weight' and 'you don't have the right body' to book roles in movies like 'The Maze Runner' and 'Divergent.'
“If I auditioned for ‘The Maze Runner’ or ‘Divergent,’ things of that variety that were popping when I was coming up, the feedback was always, ‘Oh, you don’t have the right body,'” Chalamet said in an interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe. Instead of trying to change his body type to land roles in blockbuster fare, Chalamet said he found a “very personal style” of films, such as “Call Me by Your Name,” “Beautiful Boy,” “Lady Bird,” “Little Women,” “Miss Stevens” and “Hot Summer Nights.” In 2023, with “Wonka” and “Dune: Part Two,” Chalamet starred in two films that each grossed more than $200 million domestically within eight months, beating a box office record set more than 45 years ago by John Travolta, with “Saturday Night Fever” and “Grease.”
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