Martin Scorsese is without doubt one of the biggest filmmakers alive in the present day, and Timothée Chalamet is considered one of our most promising younger actors. Which is why when the 2 determined to crew up for a Bleu de Chanel marketing campaign, it induced fairly a stir on-line. Images of the 2 taking pictures the industrial in New York went viral, with many followers excited in regards to the celebrity collaboration. Whereas the need to work with Scorsese was an expressed need by Chalamet, it was the actor’s performances in Name Me By Your Identify and Dune that made the Goodfellas director wish to work with him as properly.
In a latest video from GQ, Chalamet had the chance to take a seat down with Scorsese to ask him questions on filmmaking, and chat about their expertise working collectively on the Chanel advert marketing campaign. Scorsese talked about being approached by the designer model to do the industrial, and what about Chalamet’s previous performances drew him to the Girl Fowl actor. The filmmaker stated:
First time I noticed him was in Luca [Guadagnino]’s movie. Name Me By Your Identify. And so, , and I am nice admirer of Luca, and I liked the image. I all the time discuss performances, however they don’t seem to be actually, they’re like behavioral, the place you do not see the performing, what I imply? And so I related there, and I noticed Dune, , which I loved. And I began to see a way of vary. After which Chanel requested me to do that spot for Bleu. Which you had already completed. I had completed years in the past. The primary one. They stated they’d this younger gentleman named Timothée Chalamet, and I stated, ‘Ah, that one I do know.’
Being praised for a efficiency by Martin Scorsese is a excessive accomplishment for an actor, and it’s undoubtedly deserved. Name Me By Your Identify and Dune are two of Chalamet’s finest movies, and the 27-year-old is unimaginable in each. It was clearly this skill to adapt to wildly differing materials that drew the director to the actor. Scorsese has a knack for figuring out younger stars and pulling showstopping performances out of them, which he did with frequent collaborator Leonardo DiCaprio, Margot Robbie, and even a younger Jodie Foster again within the day. With Chalamet’s knack for selecting attention-grabbing, director-driven initiatives, it’s no shock Scorsese was drawn to him as properly.
The Bleu de Chanel marketing campaign has but to be launched, however based mostly on behind-the-scenes footage, it’s a romantic brief movie that captures a wet day in New York Metropolis. The setting is ideal for the collaborators, as each Scorsese and Chalamet famously each helm from the large apple. Chalamet was already an envoy for the model, taking part in various perfume campaigns, and Scorsese directed a industrial for the perfume again in 2010 with French actor Gaspard Ulliel. He has completed various adverts for different manufacturers as properly, like Dolce & Gabbana and Emporio Armani.
Perhaps this small scale collaboration will evolve into one thing larger for the duo, As they appear to have loved working collectively. Scorsese has already determined upon his subsequent challenge, The Wager which can as soon as once more star DiCaprio within the main function. Perhaps there’s room for Chalamet within the forged as properly. DiCaprio and Chalamet have additionally labored collectively earlier than on 2021’s Don’t Look Up, and the Oscar winner has even acted as a mentor to the Dune: Half Two star on the movie. We must wait and see as extra details about The Wager is launched, however within the meantime followers could be enthusiastic about this Chanel marketing campaign from two unimaginable creatives.
Name Me By Your Identify and Dune are each out there for Netflix subscribers, if followers wish to see for themselves the Timothée Chalamet performances that drew Martin Scorsese to the actor. You too can try the director’s newest movie Killers of the Flower Moon which is at present in theaters nationwide.
