Looks like Timothée Chalamet wasn’t the one good-looking man strolling round New York over the weekend.
The Oscar-nominated star of “Call Me by Your Name” and “Dune” made a shock look Sunday at Washington Square Park, the place tons of of followers and lookalikes gathered to crown the one, solely “finest Tim.” The public occasion, which has gone viral in current weeks on account of its cryptic nature flyersit attracted contestants with bushy eyebrows and darkish, curly hair, doppelgangers in “Wonka” and “Dune” costumes — and Chalamet himself, who didn’t enter the competitors.
The 28-year-old “Lady Bird” star, supported by private safety, posed with fans and lookalikes after native cops broke up the gathering, citing an “unpermitted costume contest.” Officials fined organizers $500 for the occasion.
Police arrested 4 individuals throughout an “unplanned demonstration,” based on multiple sockets.
“It began out as a silly joke and now it is develop into pandemonium,” mentioned Paige Nguyen, producer of YouTubers Anthony Po, who organized the occasion. Po went viral earlier this 12 months for internet hosting an occasion the place he I downed an entire jar of cheese balls in Union Square Park in Manhattan.
After the police intervened, the gang moved to a close-by playground, the place contributors selected which doppelganger most resembled the true Chalamet, who didn’t comply with the occasion in his second location. Ultimately the title of “finest Tim,” the trophy and large examine price $50 went to 21-year-old Staten Island resident Miles Mitchell, who channeled Chalamet’s “Wonka” search for his apparel — ascot and Top hat included.
“The craziest day of my life! I like New York,” Mitchell wrote Instagram. “@Tchalamet hey twin.”
While Sunday’s occasion decided the Lisan aspirants to Timothée Chalamet’s Gaib, solely the true ones Timmy Tim would be the subsequent protagonist of the Bob Dylan biopic “A complete stranger”, on Christmas Day.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
