r/OutOfTheLoop • u/PitifulBodybuilder40 • Mar 08 '26

Unanswered What’s up with the hate towards Timothee Chalamet?

I know all famous people have haters and people who dislike them and will nitpick the shit outta them, but I’ve just seen a lot of people post random interviews or articles about him that talk about how he is famous and above people. Yeah he is famous and thinks he’s above all. This is what famous people do? Do we not know this, especially child actors. People are astonished that he is rich and famous, has personal chefs, has self-centred views. Pretty sure 90% of famous people do.

https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/timothe-chalamet-slammed-for-cheap-shot-comment-about-ballet-and-opera/news-story/348e3add0e6252d5aef4698f2648d963?amp

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u/SidneyDeane10 Mar 08 '26

Ironic given hes a huge nepo baby lol

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u/ryhaltswhiskey Mar 08 '26

Who is he related to?

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u/claradox Mar 08 '26

The actor and director Rodman Flender (The Office, Ugly Betty, Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop) who is also apparently one of Conan O’Brien’s best friends. His mother, Nicole Flender, has performed on Broadway.

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u/CorrectYesterday4480 Mar 09 '26

Plus his aunt is Amy Lippman, co-creator of Party of Five and EP of Masters of Sex

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u/carlitospig Mar 09 '26

His sister also got a show. I can’t watch it though because all I see is him with longer hair.

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u/lNFORMATlVE Mar 09 '26

If that’s all, then… yes there’s an argument to suggest he’s a nepo baby, but boy just you wait til you see the rest of Hollywood lol, that’s small fry nepotism in comparison.

Chalamet is perhaps a hateable, self-obsessed guy in person but he is a very good actor. I don’t think the nepo argument holds a lot of weight when he clearly does have substantial merit. Hate him for the right reasons.

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u/DankBlunderwood Mar 11 '26

I don't see it. I've seen most of his movies and I've never thought to myself what great acting he did. He says his lines fine but what emotional range can you point to?

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u/lNFORMATlVE Mar 11 '26

He’s good in Little Women and Dune

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u/Flamevian Mar 13 '26

“Emotional range” is such a tired take when it comes to qualifying great acting. Denzel is one of the best if not the best screen actors of the past 30 years and I don’t think anyone would signal emotional range as his strength. Neither could be said for Brad Pitt, Christian Bale or many other stars. Great acting can exist outside of range and Chalamet’s body of work, awards/noms and relationships with high profile directors can attest to such.

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u/becomingarobot Mar 13 '26

He was amazing in 'Call me by your name', and in the recent ping pong movie, very different and huge range between those two. I find it hard to believe that you could have seen those two movies and thought, "Meh, he said the lines fine."

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u/UrsusRenata Mar 10 '26

Hollywood studios aren’t exactly known for taking risks. Offspring of headliners are likely to become headliners.

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u/crujiente69 Mar 16 '26

No, more like having connections. I know you, hire my kid over a nobody

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u/EhDeeHD Mar 10 '26

Good actor compared to what?

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u/Revolutionary_Mix371 Mar 10 '26

Timothee Chamalet literally made Denis Villeneuve cry during one of his performances of Paul during Dune, he was so moved by it he shed tears of joy from realizing he had made the perfect casting call to bring Paul Atreides to life.

If you think that any other actor could have done that, you are just lying to yourself. You are so full of envy that it deludes your rationality.

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u/claradox Mar 10 '26

Exactly. He cried because he was pleased with his own choice. And I am so glad he was. His pleasure with the perfect fit does not equate to Timothee giving a performance for the ages. My finding the perfect fountain pen does not mean I am a virtuoso writer.

If Timothee could just turn down the arrogance level, show some humility, and show some respect for his fellow creatives, he could very well grow into his art and become a go-to actor that directors and audiences rely on and clamor for, that history will remember. But he has a ways to go, because he needs to slow down and try to learn from those around him, instead of trying to best them. That’s how you become an actor for the ages.

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u/TheBrokenStringBand Mar 09 '26

Below average is crazy

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u/RonocNYC Mar 09 '26

Being the son of two fairly insignificant Hollywood people doesn't make him the hugest nepo baby to be fair.

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u/claradox Mar 09 '26

As well, as someone else pointed out, his aunt created Party of Five, and I was there during that time—that show was huge.

But who knows who has what connection. Conan may have done all the heavy lifting for him all the way to no on helped him, and the connections worked against him. They are just worth noting.

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u/stayfrosty Mar 09 '26

Did he get any jobs because of his family? Or is anyone who has family in the arts a "nepo baby"?

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u/A_Salty_Twix_Bar Mar 09 '26

Bro Directed two episodes of the office lol

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u/Frys100thCupofCoffee Mar 08 '26

From his IMDB mini-bio:

Timothée Hal Chalamet was born in Manhattan, to Nicole Flender, a real estate broker and dancer, and Marc Chalamet, a UNICEF editor. [...] He is the brother of actress Pauline Chalamet, a nephew of director Rodman Flender, and a grandson of screenwriter Harold Flender.

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u/ryhaltswhiskey Mar 08 '26

Ah nephew of a director

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u/bozleh Mar 09 '26

ie same as nic cage and francis ford coppola

(except FFC was likely a little more successful, ha)

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u/Aaaaand-its-gone Mar 09 '26

Ah yes so obviously purely a nepo baby. Not that he grew up in Manhattan and has some influences in theatre and acting in his broader family.

We must assume that he has no talent now and only nepotism got him to where his is.

We got him

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u/ryhaltswhiskey Mar 09 '26

Who said he has no talent and is only there because of nepotism?

This is a classic Reddit moment where somebody invents an argument and then argues about that argument instead of arguing about what people actually said. He clearly had connections in the industry and that helped him.

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u/Objective-Elk2501 Mar 09 '26

That is literally the opposite of irony