Timothée Chalamet Says 'There's Nothing More Uniquely Hilarious' Than Ripping Up an Awards Show Speech After Losing

Mar. 15, 2025

Timothée Chalamet on Dec. 10, 2024.Photo:Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic

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Timothée Chalametis answering the question everyone wants to know around awards season: what do you do with a prepared acceptance speech when you don’t actually win?

Chalamet, 28, recently appeared onSiriusXM’s The Morning Mashupto promote his upcomingBob DylanbiopicA Complete Unknown, where cohost Nicole Ryan asked the actor whether he writes his awards show acceptance speeches ahead of time.

“What a great question ‘cause like you said, this is my fourthGolden Globe nomination,” the actor said. “Look, 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 and you think to yourself, ‘You narcissistic arrogant prick. On what planet did you think you were gonna use this?’ "

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The actor has been undertaking a wide-ranging press tour to promoteA Complete Unknown, in which he plays folk and rock music legend Dylan during the 1960s. The movie also starsEdward Nortonas Pete Seeger,Elle Fanningas Sylvie Russo, Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez, Boyd Holbrook as Johnny Cash and Scoot McNairy as Woody Guthrie, among others. DirectorJames Mangoldcowrote the film’s script with Jay Cocks, adapted from Elijah Wald’s 2015 biographyDylan Goes Electric!

Timothée Chalamet on Dec. 10, 2024.Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic

That press tour has taken Chalamet everywhere fromthe set of ESPN’sCollege GameDayto talk college football to a pier in New York City, where he shared afull-length videoof himself singing along to Dylan’s 1966 classic “Visions of Johanna.”

The actor attendedA Complete Unknown’s Los Angeles premiere on Dec. 10 andspent time with girlfriendKylie Jennerat the premiere’s afterparty. Chalamet also went viral recently in a video that showed him meetingMiles Mitchell, who won theChalamet-themed lookalike contestheld in N.Y.C. back in October,following a film screeningthe actor appeared at.

A Complete Unknownreleases in theaters everywhere Dec. 25.

source: people.com