Dune star Timothée Chalamet says he doesn't care if he's called "a try-hard" for caring about awards: "I'm the one actually doing it here"

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Timothée Chalamet as Paul Atreides in one of the best sci-fi movies of all time, Dune Part 2.
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Timothée Chalamet has reiterated his feelings towards awards following his highly talked-about speech at the SAG ceremony earlier this year, saying that he doesn't care if people call him a "try-hard."

Back in February, after winning the SAG Award for best actor thanks to his performance as Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown, he said: "I can't downplay the significance of this award because it means the most to me, and I know we're in a subjective business, but the truth is I'm really in pursuit of greatness. I know people don't usually talk like that, but I want to be one of the greats." A week later, Chalamet lost to Adrien Brody at the Oscars, as the actor took the Academy Award for The Brutalist.

In a recent interview with Vogue, the Dune star got candid about the disappointment of losing an Academy Award. "If there's five people at an awards show, and four people go home losing, you don’t think those four people are at the restaurant like, 'Damn, we didn't win?' I've been around some deeply generous, no-ego actors, and maybe some of them are going, 'That was fun.' But I know for a fact a lot of them are going, 'Fuck!'"

"People can call me a try-hard, and they can say whatever the fuck,” he continued. "But I'm the one actually doing it here."

Following a surprise world premiere at the New York Film Festival, critics said this was Chalamet's best work to date. “Timothée Chalamet delivers the performance of a lifetime in this unforgettable, awe-inspiring cinematic tour-de-force that fires on all cylinders," said Discussing Film Critics Award chairman Diego Andaluz, while Hollywood Reporter's David Canfield added this is a "career-best performance" and claimed Chalamet "was born to play this guy" (via Variety).

Mireia Mullor
Mireia Mullor
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Mireia is a UK-based culture journalist and critic. She previously worked as Deputy Movies Editor at Digital Spy, and her work as a freelance writer has appeared in WeLoveCinema and Spanish magazines Fotogramas, Esquire, and Elle. She is also a published author, having written a book about Studio Ghibli's 'Kiki's Delivery Service' in 2023. Talking about anime and musicals is the best way to grab her attention.

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