Timothée Chalamet Just Might Be the Greatest Actor of His Generation
Every once in the rarest while, a young actor shows up in a movie like an alien—anonymous and yet in possession of such preternatural talent that audiences start thinking about the actor’s future not in years but in decades. Call Me by Your Name’s Timothée Chalamet is just such an alien. In between jet-setting from coast to coast for the whirlwind of award shows, screenings, and late-night appearances that his recent success has wrought, GQ talked with the Best Actor nominee about the surreal bubble of almost-famousness in which he currently exists. While it's the beginning of something enormous for him, possibly everything he's ever wanted, it's also, a little sadly, the end of something else—the very last days of the first part of his life.