Chelsea Handler has joined the ranks of observers slamming Timothee Chalamet for bragging about himself during his Marty Supreme press tour.
The 30-year-old is being tipped for Oscars glory for the film, which was inspired by the life of a real underground ping-pong player in 1940s New York.
He raised eyebrows for his over-the-top appearances at events for the film, dressing in orange as a recurring motif and occasionally surrounding himself with men wearing huge masks to make their heads look like table tennis balls.
One viral interview saw Kylie Jenner’s boyfriend gushing over his own ‘committed top-of-the-line performances’ and hailing his work as ‘some top-level s***.’
Now Handler, 50, has added her voice to the choir when podcast host Amanda Hirsch brought up the subject on an episode of her show Not Skinny But Not Fat.
Handler allowed that Chalamet was ‘a great actor’ but observed that ‘it’s hard to hear someone talk about how great they are at acting.’
Chelsea Handler has joined the ranks of observers slamming Timothee Chalamet for bragging about himself during his Marty Supreme press tour
The 30-year-old is being tipped for Oscars glory for the movie, for which he just won an Golden Globe on Sunday; pictured on the Golden Globes red carpet at the Beverly Hilton Hotel
Hirsch had raised the subject by asking her guest if she felt Chalamet was taking himself ‘too seriously,’ to which Handler replied: ‘It seemed so. He seemed pretty serious about winning and getting acknowledged for his great acting.’
Then Hirsch contrasted Chalamet’s behavior to that of Leonardo DiCaprio, who won his Oscar for the 2015 film The Revenant after decades of global superstardom.
‘No, Leo wouldn’t do that,’ Handler agreed. ‘Leo is a movie star. He wouldn’t talk like that. I mean, that’s new. I haven’t heard any actor kind of talk like that.’
Chalamet came in for brickbats last month when he showered compliments on his own work in an interview discussing Marty Supreme.
‘This is probably my best performance, you know, and it’s been like seven, eight years that I’ve been handing in really, really committed top-of-the-line performances,’ said the Call Me By Your Name actor.
‘And it’s important to say it out loud because the discipline and the work ethic I’m bringing to these things – I don’t want people to take it for granted. I don’t want to take it for granted. This is really some top-level s***.’
The video interview was posted to YouTube by South African beauty queen-turned-journalist Margaret Gardiner, who has since apparently deleted it.
Chalamet previously drew allegations of arrogance at last year’s Screen Actors Guild Awards, where won for the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown.
Chalamet is pictured in the critically acclaimed movie, which was inspired by the life of a real underground ping-pong player in 1940s New York
He made over-the-top appearances at events for the film, dressing in orange as a recurring motif, such as at the Beverly Hills premiere, which he attended with his girlfriend Kylie Jenner
‘I know we’re in a subjective business, but the truth is I’m really in pursuit of greatness,’ Chalamet during his acceptance speech. ‘I know people don’t usually talk like that, but I want to be one of the greats.’
He expressed his desire to become part of a list of exalted celebrities that included actors like Marlon Brando, Viola Davis and Daniel Day-Lewis as well as world-famous sportsmen Michael Jordan and Michael Phelps.
Chalamet ultimately lost that year’s best actor Oscar, which went to Adrien Brody for his role as a Holocaust survivor and architect in The Brutalist.
He was forthright about being disgruntled at his defeat, saying: ‘If there’s five people at an awards show, and four people go home losing, you don’t think those four people are at the restaurant like: “Damn, we didn’t win?”‘ via Vogue.
‘I’ve been around some deeply generous, no-ego actors, and maybe some of them are going: “That was fun.” But I know for a fact a lot of them are going: “F***!”‘
As for the public reaction to his attitude, he said: ‘People can call me a try-hard, and they can say whatever the f***. But I’m the one actually doing it here.’
