Over the last couple of years, whenever there’s been any news about Timothée Chalamet, “someone check on Club Chalamet” has been a common reaction on social media. That expression took on a different complexion over the last few days as the person who runs Club Chalamet, who is essentially Club Chalamet, lives in Altadena and the home they were living in has burned down.
They posted a message about the situation on the weekend:
🗣ï¸Hello everyone, I want to take a moment to thank each and everyone of you who have reached out to me directly expressing support, empathy, and love for me in the fallout of the #EatonFire that destroyed my home Tuesday night. I have been in a fog of confusion, I have been…
— Club Chalamet 💫 (@ClubChalamet) January 11, 2025
The second-to-last paragraph was so… comforting, right?!
“Meanwhile, I'll be resuming my support of Timothée Chalamet in his historic quest for his Oscar for his inspirational performance as Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown.”
A stan will always stan, no matter the circumstances.
And it’s been a full meal feast lately for Club Chalamet because, of course, as they mention, Timmy is in contention for another Oscar nomination this award season. As I have myself mentioned over the last few weeks, I really, really, really love how he’s going about it: by not following the conventional playbook.
Timothée Chalamet is the youngest actor in the Best Actor field with a real chance this year. And he doesn’t seem all that interested in catering to the campaign tastes of the dusty old Oscar voters in Palm Springs who measure Oscar viability by how seriously an actor takes himself as an actor. This is what Jacob Elordi would probably do if he was actually in an Oscar race but that’s why Jacob isn’t Timmy, that’s why no one is Timmy among his contemporaries. As we’ve observed during this specific campaign, Timmy’s strategy is to be the candidate for HIS generation even if it means that, on occasion, like dressing as Bob Dylan on a red carpet or vibe dancing on IG live, he seems incomprehensibly unserious to the older generation, LOL. If the attribute that everyone is looking for – and has overused – is “authenticity”, well, this is how Timmy’s going about it: don’t make me not be my age like that weirdly precocious eight-year-old in every family who speaks like he’s 18 because his parents were flash-carding him in the womb; this is what it looks like when a 1995 baby campaigns for an Oscar.
And, frankly, Oscar is BETTER for it. The Academy is constantly looking for ways to maintain its relevance and in Timothée Chalamet they may have found their messiah, LOL: a breathtakingly talented actor who can reach grandfathers and granddaughters at the same time with his movie, and whose work covers indie to blockbuster and Dune to Disney. And, also, is so good at being famous!
Right now, Timmy Chalamet is having a great time campaigning for the Oscar on what appears to be his terms. Next up, as announced on Friday, he’ll be returning to Saturday Night Live for the third time as guest host – which means he still has over five years to tie or surpass Emma Stone as the youngest ever person to join the Five Timers Club. But he’s doing something very, very few people have done in his position.
Because Timmy is not a recording artist, his day job is not musician. Not only is he hosting, he’ll also be the musical guest that week and this is exactly the kind of chaos that makes him so… him. This is why the internet is so devoted, this is why he is the celebrity of a generation – Timmy can still surprise and intrigue in this time of information overload and overshare.
What, exactly, will Timmy be performing as the musical guest? WHO, exactly, will he be performing as?! By now we all know that he spent five years preparing to become young Bob Dylan; he learned how to play guitar, he sang, he went all in …but in the safe, protected space of a film set. Not live. So it would be such a f-cking flex if he were to really showcase all of that work without the benefit of editing, in a live environment, in that studio, on that stage. This would be the conventional Oscar campaign approach. And, certainly, the Palm Springs Oscar voter would respond to it.
But what if Timmy’s not in the mood for that? Again, his campaign approach, so far, has not been formulaic. So there is a world in which Timmy’s “musical” performance could be the return of $mokecheddathaassgetta with Guap Lord, aka Pete Davidson, and a follow-up to their instant classic “Yeet Skrt”.
This is a man who showed up to his own lookalike contest and turned into a college football expert a few weeks later and turned his premiere into Halloween by dressing as Bob Dylan – anything is possible. Also even if $mokecheddathaassgetta isn’t the musical guest, he still might show up in one of the sketches since he’s already made two previous appearances.
But the point here is the anticipation. Big anticipation. For a part of the show that, let’s be honest, isn’t typically the most intriguing. Somehow Timothée Chalamet has found a way to do that. Yet another reason why he’s in a league of his own.
Here's Timmy at the London premiere of A Complete Unknown today.
timothèe chalamet just arrived on a lime bike 😠pic.twitter.com/oJJZ5ktFFA
— Ù (@chxlametcinema) January 14, 2025