Timothée Chalamet’s Popularity, Explained

Timothée Chalamet possessed the same perspective movie star energy that Leonardo DiCaprio expressed in the ’90s and that James Dean harnessed in the ’50s — a youthful playfulness with boyish good looks and an organic charm. While Dean and DiCaprio sported blonde quiffs, piercing blue eyes, and an irresistible on-screen charisma, Chalamet, for all his undeniable albeit conventional good looks, always seemed to carry that dorkier, sillier side that has made him such a commercially viable marketing tool.

​ Chalamet is one of the most likable young actors on the film circuit, but what about him has so many fans silly for Timothée?