Theres Something About Timothee
Six years ago, he became the most in-demand young actor in Hollywood.
What makes him so irresistible?
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Timothee Chalamet is really good at playing a little shit.
A petulant smirk, a cooler-than-thou eye roll, or a beleaguered sigh that can convey arrogance and puerility.
And it all started onHomeland.
And Chalamets performance all his negging flirtiness, jittery panic, and smug cynicism is key to that affect.
According toHomelandcasting director Judy Henderson, Finn was written as educated but not a goody-goody two shoes.
In more words, likable, but with an edge.
The rule-breaking rich white boy is a TV archetype: Logan Huntzberger, Oliver Trask, Nate Archibald.
Finn is a bureaucrat-in-training jerkoff who diminishes Danas feelings and then mocks her for having a conscience.
Yet Chalamet gave him layers a sliver of pitiable self-protection and tragic besottedness.
So much of what drives Finn is reflected in a need for immediate approval.
Finn responds with a cheap joke and relishes the subsequent laughs: Right, and mines a Scientologist.
(He later peers through his hands Just trying to picture you in a burka.
with all the physical emphases necessary to indicate he knows he can.
(He is.)
He looks away from her at the end of their fight, like hes lost all interest in her.
I know how this goes.
Good luck with that, Finn scoffs and grins when she threatens to go to the police.
How does it go?
When Finns dad eventually dies, Brody attends his funeral in The Choice.
Tell Dana I said Hi, Finn tells Brody when they run into each other.
Chalamet plays the words as innocuous as they are goading.
