Timothée Chalamet has reacted to winning a ‘White Boy Of The Year’ award while also revealing his favourite ever film.
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The actor won the award at the first ever annual ‘Believe That’ awards – a tongue-in-cheek awards event. The two-time Oscar nominee beat Tom Cruise, Adam Sandler, Pat McAfee and MBeast to the award.
Chalamet’s award win was announced by Anthony Edwards (as per International Business Times), and the actor accepted the award via a video call from Budapest, Hungary, where he’s currently filming Dune: Part Three with Denis Villeneuve.
Chalamet had a further exchange on the podcast with Edwards and his co-host Nick Maddox where he also shared that his favourite films are Michael Mann’s Heat and Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight. The actor ended the video call with a jokey acceptance speech, saying: “I gotta shout out all the white boys that laid the path before me: Timberlake, Justin Bieber, Jason Williams, Ed Sheeran.”
Later, on Instagram Stories, Chalamet posted a further acceptance speech which read: “You can get lost in the Sauce, but without Sauce, you are lost. That being said, I promise to cherish this award, and do good inspiring generations of white boys to come to be entirely delusional about their identity and place within the world.”
In other news, the premiere of Marty Supreme, the sports drama directed by Josh Safdie and starring Chalamet, has received a rapturous response following its premiere at New York Film Festival earlier this month (October 6).
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The film is Safdie’s first time directing without his brother Benny, whose own solo effort The Smashing Machine is currently in cinemas. Chalamet stars as Marty Mauser, a young man with a dream to conquer the world of table tennis. Despite no one respecting his ambitions, he goes to extreme lengths in pursuit of his goal.
The story is inspired by Marty Reisman, who was known as the “wizard of table tennis” for his professional career that ran from 1947 to 2002. Reisman won 22 ping pong titles and five bronze medals at the World Table Tennis Championships.
The film is released December 26 in the UK, and a day before in the US. Those who attended its festival premiere hailed it as one of the best films of the year on X/Twitter, as well as praising Chalamet’s central performance.
One of the most in-demand actors in Hollywood thanks to hits such as Dune and A Complete Unknown, Chalamet revealed earlier this year that he spent months learning table tennis for the role.
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