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Timothée Chalamet movies that are not a Hollywood cliché, the very Beautiful Boy from Call Me By Your Name.
Beautiful Boy (2019), the movie is a real life story of David Sheff and his son Nic. The story is an adaptation of a memoir written by David Sheff himself, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction. The story talks about the never ending lapsing cycles of drug addiction, his family's journey dealing with a meth addict and a father's efforts to pull his child's life back.
What sets the movie aside from the Hollywood clichés is the affirming portrayal of the real life story on screen. The protagonist, Nic played by none other than our beautiful boy, Timothée Chalamet. Tim's journey as an actor to dwell into a meth addict's character certainly required the sensitivity and research but more of the commitment to live the character as his own. No doubt the budding actor resembles real life 17 year old Nic but he lived the honest accounts of Nic's drug use on screen.
Timothée, the young Leonard DiCaprio stuns film critiques with such a transformation. Him stepping into Addiction genre is a surprise to everyone seeing the beautiful boy in coming of age romances. After his performance in Call Me By Your Name(2017) it was for sure that Timothée has a thing to play intimate roles. His characters are skin deep for sure. For any actor PERSERVERANCE is the key to success. The success here means to play true to the role by all means. What we see on screen is not just the emotional, social and psychological effort to get into Nic's psyche but the outlook, loosing 20 pounds to feel and look but for sure the emotions need to be reflected inside-out. The tragic events in the character's life leads to a cyclical narrative.
As an actor it's important eat the frog to just eat your very own fear. In an interview with WMagazine Timothée says,
For me, especially going up for this role so many times, I thought, "Oh man, what's this bridge I'm going to have to cross?" What's the thing that can legitimize me to an audience without falling into a masochistic trap of a young actor of throwing myself against the wall every night like, "Good, I'm in pain, so I must be doing well."
Timothée internalized what he experienced being with people at rehab. Nic's jouney since the age of 12 to 30 and being drug free at last for the 8 years to feel sober at his own age and what it would have been for Nic at 17, it was studied by Timothée. It's about living the the what ifs and the imagination is difficult to be executed when the example is very real.
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