Timothée Chalamet has been tipped for years as the following Leonardo DiCaprio sort, and a chum with reference to the actor unearths solely to Existence & Taste how he’s been quietly obsessed together with his older position style while taking cues from his taste and vying to sooner or later surpass him.

“Timmy is open about his admiration for Leo or even in regards to the occasions he has without delay sought Leo’s recommendation, however there’s undoubtedly a double-edged sword to this type of obsession he has to pay attention to,” the supply says. 

Timothée, 28, published in September 2022 that his Don’t Glance Up Costar, Leo, 49, gave him some helpful recommendation on set whilst they have been filming.

“No exhausting medication,” Leo informed him, “and no superhero films.”

Even if Timothée has said it was once Heath Ledger’s efficiency because the Joker in The Darkish Knight that impressed him to transform an actor, the Dune hero hasn’t long past tremendous at the large display but. That implies Timothée is most likely taking his mentor’s recommendation to center, however he’s additionally taking some other web page out of the Titanic actor’s playbook – being notoriously choosy in regards to the scripts he chooses to just accept!

“Leo has trustworthy his complete grownup existence to being a undeniable roughly film megastar,” the insider says, “sparsely selecting initiatives and cultivating a world fan base.”

Leo’s A-list technique sooner or later landed him an Academy Award for portraying frontiersman Philip Glass in Alexander Iñárritu’s The Revenant, which required steadfast dedication to early Nineteenth-century authenticity, together with consuming uncooked bison liver and crawling within a gutted bison carcass.

Even if there were no stories about any radical adjustments to Timothée’s nutrition, the insider warns that following Leo’s footsteps too carefully comes at a value.

“It may be an overly lonely existence on the best and it’s clearly saved Leo from beginning a circle of relatives of his personal and even having a lot of a private existence outdoor of his lavish holidays and his environmental paintings,” the insider says.

Timothée stocks a an identical occupation trajectory with Leo, a minimum of for now. Each started as kid actors and sooner or later hit breakout roles as younger males – Leo as Arnie Grape, the brother of Johnny Depp’s lead personality in What’s Consuming Gilbert Grape, and Timothée as Tom Cooper, the son of Matthew McConoughey’s lead personality in Interstellar.

After taking part in 2d to A-list stars on the time, each actors started signing directly to main roles and making a reputation for themselves – Leo with The Basketball Diaries and Timothée with Name Me by way of Your Title.

“However that is what Timmy needs, and it’s why he has sparsely studied Leo since he was once a youngster and why he made some degree of paying his respects to Leo when he turned into a full-blown main guy within the ultimate couple of years.” 

“As rosy as issues were between Timmy and Kylie Jenner, she is very best situated to look the place Timmy’s priorities are.” 

Timothée and Kylie, 27, have been first rumored to be related in April 2023 prior to making their public debut as a pair at a Beyoncé live performance for the singer’s Renaissance International Excursion in September.

“I will be able to let you know,” the supply continues, “his primary precedence is to construct a occupation that’s even larger than Leo’s – in anyway important.”