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A30 PEOPLE & ARTS
Tuesday 12 sepTember 2017
Toronto a coming out party for

21-year-old Timothee Chalamet

By JAKE COYLE mer) comes to stay with lives. “He’s a very dif-
AP Film Writer them, Elio has a self- ficult dude to hate,”
TORONTO (AP) — The discovery that mingles Hammer said.
kind of breakthrough love with art, language What Chalamet lacks
performance where and natural beauty. in vanity, those around
it’s immediately ap- In the film, he plays pi- him make up for in their
parent that an actor is ano and guitar, speaks praise for him.
going to be a star for fluent French and Ital- “Not to sound pomp-
Actor Timothee Chalamet poses for photos before a press con- years to come is a rar- ian, and indelibly cap- ous, but the guy is kind
ference for the film “Call Me By Your Name” at the Toronto Inter- ity in movies. Think of tures the experience of of a genius,” said Gua-
national Film Festival in Toronto on Friday, Sept. 8, 2017.
Associated Press Emma Stone in “Easy first love. The film and dagnino, the Italian film-
A” or Jessica Chastain its cast are considered maker of “I Am Love.”
in “The Tree of Life.” likely Academy Awards ‘’He has a capacity
But that kind of thun- contenders, partly be- for understanding hu-
derbolt moment is strik- cause of Chalamet’s man nature instinctively
ing now for 21-year-old uncommon poise and that’s astonishing.
Timothee Chalamet, a wide-ranging intelli- It’s also naive in a way,
New Yorker with the tal- gence in a deeply sen- because he’s young,
ent to speak multiple sual movie. but also very focused.
languages, play nu- “It feels like a real semi- The cinema is at its best
merous instruments and nal moment,” said Cha- when it can present a
take the festival circuit lamet in an interview. “I new personality in the
by storm with a hand- feel like the luckiest guy world.”
ful of performances — in the world that I get to Chalamet doesn’t
including one assured share it with Luca and come out of nowhere.
of ranking among the Armie and Michaels He’s appeared on
finest performances of Stuhlbarg. stage, earning a Drama
the year. I’m obviously very League Award nomi-
The Toronto Interna- young and I’ve had a nation for John Pat-
tional Film Festival has short career, but I’ve rick Stanley’s “Prodigal
been a coming out never been a part of Son.” He was a regular
party for Chalamet, anything like this.” on “Homeland” and
who has three films at “He’s being excessive- played smaller roles in
the festival. ly humble,” Hammer films like Christopher No-
He stars in Luca Gua- cuts in. “He’s the man lan’s “Interstellar” and
dagnino’s coming- of the year here at TIFF Jason Reitman’s “Men,
of-age, coming-out and we’re just riding his Women and Children”
tale “Call Me By Your coattails.” — his screen debut.
Name,” he’s a support- Though the two are sep- “I have been working
ing player in Greta Ger- arated by a decade in for a number of years,”
wig’s equally lauded age and experience, says Chalamet. “I just
coming-of-age tale they’ve become close graduated from the-
“Lady Bird,” and he friends, drawn closer by ater high school in New
co-stars in the Chris- the intimacy of making York.
tian Bale-led Western “Call Me By Your Name” I went to LaGuardia so
“Hostiles.” A Cape Cod in the meadows, cafes I’m very close to the re-
thriller in which he stars, and villas of Crema, It- ality that lot of actors
“Hot Summer Nights,” aly, where Guadagnino work rarely.”q
was also acquired here
by A24.
But the headliner is his
performance in “Call
Me By Your Name,”
which Sony Pictures
Classics will release Nov.
24. In the film, adapted
by James Ivory from
André Aciman’s novel,
Chalamet plays Elio, a
headstrong 17-year-old
living with his parents
in 1980s northern Italy.
When a handsome ac-
ademic (Armie Ham-