Timothée Chalamet Spills the Tea on Getting Body-Shamed by Hollywood’s Dystopian Powers That Be

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Timothée Chalamet, beloved cheekbone model and occasional actor, once got body-shamed by Hollywood’s Hunger Games wannabes! Yes, even in the land of CGI wizards and green screens, they needed him to pack on some “mass” to make the cut.

In a recent heart-to-heart with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, Timothée, the now-certified face of cinematic feasts like Dune and Wonka, confessed he used to dream of joining post-apocalyptic gym class in The Maze Runner or trading barbed compliments with the gang in Divergent. But Hollywood apparently had other plans.

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Timothée summed it up, saying: “If I auditioned for The Maze Runner or Divergent, the feedback was always, ‘Oh, you don’t have the right body.’” (Read: Hollywood didn’t think his frame was suited for hurdling flaming walls or ducking futuristic arrows at a lean, mean 120 pounds). “I had an agent call me and say, ‘You gotta put on weight,’” he chuckled, clarifying that it was more of a ‘friendly nudge’ than a full-blown intervention.

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So, if you ever wonder why Timmy wasn’t out there dodging exploding mechanical spiders, now you know: Hollywood wanted pasta, not just cheekbones. And while he never made it to the dystopian jungle gym, let’s just say the world ended up okay without Buff Chalamet — after all, he’s out here being a Wonka wizard and making Dune’s desert planet look glam.

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