Timothée Chalamet Advocates for Longer Hair in ‘Dune 3’

Timothée Chalamet wasn’t able to half along with his hair.

Over the summer season, followers of the as soon as curly-haired actor had been shocked to see him out and about with what gave the impression to be a buzz minimize that was confirmed in October. Seems, he was simply as shocked as everybody else.

Throughout a Dec. 12 look on The Graham Norton Present, the Oscar nominee, 29, stated that his hair transformation, completed on June 25 for his position in Dune: Half 3, began with what’s known as a “3 millimeter hair minimize.” Then, movie director Denis Villeneuve saved asking the star to go shorter and shorter along with his hair.

On the suggestion of a 1 millimeter chop, Chalamet stated he virtually “begged” to have his hair saved longer. “You recognize, your hair, weirdly we’re all hooked up [to our hair]. It is form of like our personalities, these follicles that develop out of our heads” he defined. However his locks had been “stolen.”

That is all to say, he knew what needed to be completed for his reprisal of Paul Atreides. “It is imagined to be a pleasant character shift, and I am enjoying 15, 20 years older,” he defined.

Co-guest Emma Thompson candidly requested if he offered his well-known locks on eBay, and Chalamet joked that he “did not consider that.”

With the arrival of Dune: Half Three in theaters this month, Chalamet has maintained his shorter hairdo, even whereas selling his different movie Marty Supreme.

On Dec. 8, he and girlfriend Kylie Jenner took the Los Angeles premiere by storm in coordinating orange seems, custom-made by Chrome Hearts.

With the actor in a go well with accessorized with a ping pong paddle crossbody bag (an ode to the film) and the Kylie Cosmetics mogul, 28, in a low-cut robe, the couple marked their second purple carpet look since their public debut on the seventieth David Di Donatello Awards in Could.

Their seems had been put along with intention and as a type of methodology dressing, in accordance with Chalamet’s now-viral advertising brainstorm Zoom that was shared in November, during which his “nice thought #1” was to affiliate the film with a selected shade of orange.

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After all, Chalamet has been recognized lately to decide to a bit whereas selling his movies — and are available to consider it, they often contain altering his greatest asset.

On the December 2023 New York premiere of A Full Unknown, his biopic of Bob Dylan, he dressed up because the “Blowin’ within the Wind” singer on the 2003 Sundance Movie Pageant premiere of Masked and Nameless.

The makeover was made full with a grimy blond wig with bangs accompanied by {a partially} fake facial hair that Chalamet later confessed on The Late Present with Stephen Colbert that was his skinny mustache grown for Marty Supreme.