Timothée Chalamet Bombed His Audition For This Hit Horror Collection

Timothée Chalamet has been on a historic run of late. The actor just lately fronted a string of hit movies which have propelled him to true film star standing, to the purpose that folks will seemingly purchase tickets to a movie just because it has the Chalamet issue. Positive, not all the things the younger actor has performed has been profitable. A number of the worst Chalamet films embrace 2015’s “Love the Coopers” and 2019’s “A Wet Day in New York,” the latter arriving two years after Chalamet’s breakthrough efficiency within the 2017 love story value falling head over heels for, “Name Me By Your Title.” However the actor’s latest run of movies have all carried out extraordinarily properly.

After serving to “Dune: Half Two” cross field workplace milestones together with his efficiency as Paul Atreides, Chalamet performed Bob Dylan within the Oscar-nominated biopic “A Full Unknown,” which garnered vital reward and noticed the actor tackle the difficult process of enjoying one of many twentieth century’s largest musical icons. Add in his lead efficiency in 2023’s “Wonka,” which made $634 million on a $125 million price range, and you have a very star-making run in your arms.

However on the TV facet, Chalamet has but to entrance a bonafide hit. He did have a recurring position as Finn Walden in Showtime’s “Homeland,” however that is been his largest TV position up to now, and that was again in 2012; he has but to truly star in something on the small display. But it surely appears issues had been near figuring out lots in a different way in that regard — that’s, till the actor bombed his audition for what would grow to be successful horror sequence.

In 2014’s “Interstellar,” Chalamet performed a 15-year-old model of Tom Cooper, son of Matthew McConaughey’s Joseph Cooper. On the time, the younger actor was positive the movie would rework his life, but what stays Chalamet’s favourite film did completely nothing for his profession. As a substitute, he must wait till 2017’s “Name Me By Your Title” to land his breakthrough position and obtain the popularity he sought. Had he not fully flubbed his audition for an A&E horror sequence previous to that, nonetheless, he may properly have come to prominence a lot earlier.

The yr earlier than “Intersellar,” A&E debuted “Bates Motel,” a horror drama sequence impressed by Robert Bloch’s “Psycho” novel from 1959. Conceived as a prequel to Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 adaptation of “Psycho,” the present centered on Norman Bates (performed by British actor Freddie Highmore) and his mom Norma (Vera Farmiga) within the years previous to the occasions of the novel and movie. As a substitute of being set in a fictional California city, just like the movie, the occasions of the sequence befell in White Pine Bay, Oregon and, simply to make issues much more complicated, the present was set within the modern-day, regardless of being a prequel. With a needlessly perplexing setup like that, you may count on it to have performed fairly poorly, but it surely truly lasted for 5 seasons and proved fairly common all through its run, which led to 2017.

The sequence additionally featured eventual “Home of the Dragon” actress Olivia Cooke, who discovered that filming “Bates Motel” took fairly a psychological toll. Whether or not the identical would have been true for Timothée Chalamet will, nonetheless, perpetually stay a thriller, because the actor misplaced the lead position attributable to him fully lacking the purpose of his audition.

In a Backstage interview, Timothée Chalamet was requested about his worst audition story, and the actor highlighted his try at touchdown the lead position of Norman Bates in “Bates Motel,” explaining how he confused the supply materials for one thing else completely:

“I did it once I was 14 or 15, and I used to be advised this was a younger ‘Psycho.’ And I went to Netflix, and the very first thing that got here up for ‘Psycho’ was ‘American Psycho,’ which is clearly very particular tonally and performance-wise. So there’s an audition for “Bates Motel” someplace that is a Patrick Bateman impression that is method off tonally.”

Whereas Patrick Bateman stays one of the vital distinguished fictional psychopaths in movie historical past, he is not fairly the identical type of “Psycho” as Norman Bates. However I might be mendacity if I mentioned I did not need to see Chalamet doing his greatest Patrick Bateman impression — particularly since “American Psycho” is getting a remake with the proper director. Maybe Chalamet may even have been match for Bateman within the new film had his “Dune: Half Two” co-star Austin Butler not already been forged.

Apparently sufficient, Freddie Highmore, who finally landed the lead position in “Bates Motel,” starred as Charlie Bucket in Tim Burton’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Manufacturing facility” adaptation again in 2005. Chalamet, in the meantime, performed the titular position in “Wonka,” portraying a youthful model of the eccentric chocolatier for the 2023 film in a lot the identical method as Highmore performed a younger Norman Bates in his A&E sequence.