Wide Angle The Many Faces of Timothée Chalamet Is the Wonka star a delicate thespian, a swaggy hypebeast, or a secret 3rd thing?
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In the wake of a tentative (and since-ratified) SAG-AFTRA offer, Timothée Chalamet and his disarmingly angular visage kicked into promotion high equipment and visited 30 Rockefeller Plaza last month to host Saturday Night Live in the run-up to his newest movie task, Paul King’s extremely prepared for musical smash hit WonkaIt was the star’s 2nd time up at bat in the renowned studio, and his monologue opened with the basic features of Lorne Michaels’ tradition program: canned, self-effacing jokes with stops briefly integrated in for applause, slightly pointed observations about modern celeb affairs, and a campy yet thoughtful nod– through a gaudy musical number, Willy Wonka walking stick consisted of– to the outrageous circuit of press and self-promotion that NBC milks in order to wrangle Hollywood’s greatest for an hour of sketch funny every week.
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