Chalamet then tasted success with Luca Guadagnino’s “Call Me by Your Name”, which earned him an Academy Award for Best Actor. He starred in the studio tentpoles “Little Women” and the “Dune” franchise.

The actor is now awaiting the release of the biographical drama film “A Complete Unknown” based on singing legend Bob Dylan.

“If I auditioned for The Maze Runner or Divergent, those kinds of things that were coming out when I came in, the reaction was always, ‘Oh, you don’t have the right body. I had an agent call me up and say, ‘You have to gain weight,’ basically, not in an aggressive way, but you know,” Chalamet told Zane Lowe in an interview.

This experience, he said, ultimately helped him prepare for “A Complete Unknown”.

“I wouldn’t say it’s weird, but I’ve been through some of these things. Bob wanted to be a rock ‘n’ roll star – Buddy Holly, Little Richard, Elvis Presley – it was saturated with rice crisp pop, rock and roll music, you know, the ’50s, depending on your point of view. Marketed to children in the late 1970s. Equally, I wanted to be a big movie actor,” Chalamet said.

He said that working in smaller films such as “Call Me by Your Name”, “Beautiful Boy”, “Lady Bird”, “Little Women”, “Miss Stevens” and “Hot Summer Nights” gave him “a very personal style”. “Film” found. ,

“They were small budget but very… I don’t know how else to put this… fascinating movies that started in this theater space. That’s where I found my rhythm, my confidence, my flow, whatever you want to call it.” Wanted, got it.”

“A Complete Unknown,” directed by James Mangold, will be released in theaters on Christmas.

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