Timothée Chalamet says he put on 20lb to play Bob Dylan. Can that tip the scales at the Oscars?
Radical physical transformations helped De Niro, Hanks and Bale to Academy Awards. But Chalamet’s Dylan still looks like he could by knocked down by a strong breeze
The Oscars are drawing near and you can cut the tension with a knife. Nowhere more so than in the best actor category. Until recently the award was Adrien Brody’s to lose, but news that some of his Hungarian scenes were augmented with pronunciation-correcting AI may have derailed his chances.
This appears to have opened a pathway for Timothée Chalamet to be frontrunner, for his role in A Complete Unknown. And in true Oscars-campaign style, that means he now has to go out and convince people that he comprehensively transformed into Bob Dylan. It is time for Chalamet to spellbind the world by revealing that he put on some weight for the film.
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