Everything You Need to Know about Timothée Chalamet in ‘The French Dispatch’
Long story short, he does and he doesn’t. You see Léa Seydoux’s character naked—she appears as the muse of an incarcerated artist in her chapter—but the closest we get is a scene in which Chalamet’s character jumps out of the bath, shielding his private parts, to share his manifesto with Lucinda.
Frances McDormand is his main scene partner
Chalamet has some great scene partners. Frances McDormand is the main one, coming straight off the back of her Oscar-winning turn in 2020’s Nomadland. And French-Algerian actor Lyna Khoudri plays his girlfriend, Juliette. In the coterie of young activists around him, few have speaking roles, but newcomer Mohamed Belhadjine plays his closest pal, Mitch Mitch.
No French is spoken here
The film might be set in France, but the script is in English, which may disappoint some fans who had hoped that Chalamet, who is part French, might use his second language in the role (like he did in 2019’s The King). He is American in the movie, using his real-life accent instead—even when Juliette speaks to him in French.
It’s not impossible for him to get Oscar love
