to many people the world over, Timothée Chalamet is something of a ‘snack’. Certainly the fans screaming at him on the red carpet of Venice Film Festival in September could have eaten him alive. Apt then that UK Vogue’s first solo male cover star and the internet’s boyfriend is in the floating city to discuss a film that explores hunger - both physical and transgressive, as well as emotional.
Dressed in black leather trousers, an Absolute Beginners t-shirt (on brand for the film’s Reagan era) and heeled boots, the 26-year-old is on a flying visit from Dune 2 production and holed up at the ultra-exclusive Cipriani Hotel to avoid the paps. His life has changed exponentially from when he was promoting Call Me By Your Name as a fresh-faced newcomer in Luca Guadagnino’s lush romance in 2017, but the bond he forged with his director then has remained a constant. And it’s why, as a fully-fledged Hollywood star, he would now take on Bones And All, a potentially risky project exploring the relationship between two young cannibals, Lee and Maren, who meet on a rust-belt road trip and discover how to live with both love and appetite.
Originally a YA novel by Camille DeAngelis, what’s described on the page when translated to celluloid can be gory, grubby and potentially off-putting, as the two crouch bloodily Not so, say both director and star.
