As his unique name continues to make headlines, Timothée Chalamet reveals how to pronounce it accurately.
During his appearance in Jimmy Kimmel live! On Thursday, February 1, Dune: Part Two The actor explained to the late-night talk show host how to say his name correctly. “Honestly, he’s ‘Tim-oh-teh,'” the actor said. “But I wouldn’t force you to say it like that and it could be Timothy, Timmy, Doug or Allen.”
Kimmel responded by saying, “Is it ‘Tim-oh-teh’?”
Timothée Chalamet then claimed that his parents were responsible for the confusion. “That’s what it was supposed to be; “My parents cursed me with that,” he declared.
Kimmel responded: “Did they? And you said, ‘No, I’m not going to accept that.’
Timothée Chalamet confirmed saying: “I’m not going to accept that, it’s whatever you want.”
Clalamet also shared that his middle name is Hal. “Which breaks it in a strange way,” he said. Buddy Dune: Part Two Star Florence Pugh said: “That’s not the flow.”
Timothée Chalamet previously spoke about the pronunciation of his name during an interview with Frank Ocean
In 2018, Timothée Chalamet spoke with Frank Ocean for his VMan interview about how to correctly pronounce his name.
“My whole life I was Timmy and then as I got older,” Chalamet said at the time. “It seemed like Timmy was cheating on me, so it’s been Timothée ever since. I tried Timo and Tim too. The actual pronunciation is Timo-tay. I can’t ask people to call me that. It seems really pretentious. “My dad is from France, so he writes in French, but it seems like too much of an obligation to ask people to call me that.”
Timothée Chalamet also said that when he acts in French, he is very surprised how much more grounded it feels than acting in English. “I grew up speaking French with my dad, but it’s not a language I’m that fluent in, so when I speak or act in French, the words mean a lot to me; “I am very focused.”
Timothée Chalamet Dune her co-star Pugh revealed during her appearance on The Graham Norton Show she calls him “Timothée Chala-mala-bing-bong.”
“I loved his last name Chalamet and every time I read it, I read it as ‘Chala-mala-bing-bong,’” Pugh said. “My grandmother met him last week and after he arrived, it was like she met ‘Timothée Chala-mala-bing-bong’.”
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