News culture This actor from the Dune saga secretly attended a meeting bringing together his lookalikes, it looks like fiction because it's so bizarre!
Published on 01/11/2024 at 7:00 p.m.
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It's a rather unusual fact that took place this weekend: Thimothée Chalamet secretly attended a lookalike competition… of himself. Except he didn't even win.
Everyone wants to take their place
In the space of a few years, Timothée Chalamet has become one of the biggest cinema stars of this generation: it must be said that he takes on particularly emblematic roles, starring in Wonka or of course the latest films Dune. And like any celebrity of this name, lookalikes then appear: there was a competition organized last Sunday in New York, at Washington Square Park in Manhattan, with the aim of electing the one who would most resemble the Franco-American actor.
A highly anticipated event, teased for weeks with careful word of mouth and flyers distributed here and there, promising the reward of… 50 dollars to the big winner. No less than 2000 people gathered to watch the competition.
Sometimes face
Several lookalikes then took part: on the one hand, those who chose to imitate the everyday Chalamet and on the other, those who opted to mimic a character played by the actor on the big screen. And then, there was the real Thimothée Chalamet who chose to participate in the competition in “secret” : the irony is that he didn't even win, the competition having been won by Miles Mitchell, a 21-year-old young man dressed as Willy Wonka.
Then, things quickly degenerated when the crowd realized that they were in the presence of the person who was motivating the very organization of the event. Accompanied by a bodyguard, Chalamet quickly had to be evacuated in the face of crowd movements, a double having even been handcuffed. Moreover, the organizers were fined $500 in the process. “It's a shame we got fined $500, but that's the price of culture,” YouTuber Anthony Po, behind the contest, told GQ.
