Timothée Chalamet names the three greatest actors of all time
Timothée Chalamet has revealed the three actors that he considers to be the greatest of all time.
Chalamet, whose new movie Marty Supreme is set for release in cinemas on December 25th in the US and December 26th in the UK, made the revelation during a high-speed interview with Lucid Motors while travelling at a lightning pace in a Lucid Air Sapphire.
At one point in the quickfire questions, Chalamet is asked by Josh Hart and Jalen Brunson about the actor that he considers to be the greatest of all time, and rather than give just one name, he chooses to pick three.
He responded, “Denzel’s (Washington) the Goat (greatest of all time), Christian Bale’s the second Goat and Joaquin (Phoenix) is the strange Goat.”
In the same quickfire interview, Chalamet said, without a moment of hesitation, when asked about the greatest villain in the history of film or TV, “Heath Ledger as The Joker.”
Chalamet also spoke about his friendship with Leonardo DiCaprio, who he said was his favourite person to receive a text out of the blue from, and revealed that the One Battle After Another actor had reached out that very day.
“He fried me today,” Chalamet shared, revealing. “He said, ‘I heard they shaved your head. Say it ain’t so.’”
The actor’s new movie, directed by Josh Safdie, stars Chalamet as ping-pong player Marty Mauser, who is on the pursuit of following his dreams in table tennis. Gwyneth Paltrow also stars as the wife of a rival player, who becomes romantically entangled with Mauser.
The role, which has already created an Oscars buzz for Chalamet, has been a passion project for the New Yorker over the past seven years, who travelled everywhere with a ping-pong table during that time.
He recently revealed, “Everything I was working on, it was this secret: I had a table in London while I was making Wonka. On Dune 2, I had a table in Budapest, Jordan. I had a table in Abu Dhabi.”
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