u should be here standing with your arm around me here

22, he’ll appear in two films released on the same day. (He walked the red carpet in a Haider Ackermann satin tuxedo jacket and sweatpants.) On Oct.

He’s back in New York for the Met Gala, which he’s co-chairing alongside Billie Eilish, Naomi Osaka and Amanda Gorman. If Chalamet-whom most people call, affectionately, Timmy-sees himself as off-center, so far it’s working. Get a print of Timothée Chalamet’s TIME Next Generation Leader cover here with the weirder parts of you that don’t quite fit in.” “It’s a celebration of being off-center and of being O.K. “It’s not mining the darker emotions in life,” he says. “Like I was desecrating history!” But working on this project has been good for him. “I felt out of my league,” he says of working in that legendary space. He just spent a weekend recording music for the film at Abbey Road. It’s not an easy thing to come by in London, where he’s been in rehearsals for Wonka, an original movie musical that will serve as a prequel of sorts to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, following the titular chocolatier as a young man. He orders black coffee and matzo-ball soup, which he says he has been craving. Luckily, we go undetected as we make our way to another diner a few blocks down-a true New York greasy spoon, less crowded and doggedly uncool-and slide into a back booth. Face covered with a mask and hoodie pulled up over his curly hair, he’s mostly incognito but still cuts a distinct enough figure that we’d better find a new location fast, and standing at a crosswalk with him, I feel briefly protective, like I should be prepared to body-block an onslaught of fans at any moment. The restaurant in Greenwich Village where we had planned to meet ended up getting swarmed by NYU students while I was waiting for him, chattering excitedly to one another-“Timothée Chalamet is here!” “Shut up!” “Yeah, he’s right outside!”-so, trying to avoid a deluge of selfie seekers, I bolt from the table, tapping Chalamet on the shoulder where he stands under the awning, on the phone, and we make our escape. T imothée Chalamet and I are on the run, chasing down Sixth Avenue on a bright September day in search of a place to talk.

U should be here standing with your arm around me here