Timothee Chalamet Calls Out Social Media Negativity: 'It's Tough to Be Alive Now'
Timothee Chalamet arrives at the 2022 Venice Film Festival ahead of the premiere of his new movie Bones and All on Friday (September 2) in Venice, Italy.
The 26-year-old actor was joined by his co-stars Taylor Russell, Chloe Sevigny and Mark Rylance, as well as director Luca Guadagnino.
Based on the book by Camille DeAngelis, Bones and All follows a woman on a cross-country trip as she searches for the father she’s never met in an attempt to understand why she has the urge to kill and eat the people that love her.
During a press conference, Timothee discussed the film being set in the ’80s, when social media did not exist.
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“To be young now, and to be young whenever—I can only speak for my generation—is to be intensely judged,” he said. “I can’t imagine what it is to grow up with the onslaught of social media, and it was a relief to play characters who are wrestling with an internal dilemma absent the ability to go on Reddit, or Twitter, Instagram or TikTok and figure out where they fit in.”
“I’m not casting judgement,” he continued. “You can find your tribe there.” But “I think it’s hard to be alive now. I think societal collapse is in the air. That’s why hopefully this movie will matter.”
Timothee went on to say he was excited to work with Luca again, after previously starring in the director’s film Call Me By Your Name.
“That story is about someone who’s on a prophecy—on a path, and can’t get off it,” he shared. “I was dying to work with Luca again to tell a story that was grounded like the first story we told, only this time in the American Midwest in the ‘80s about people that are disenfranchised in every way possible.”
Bones and All is expected to hit theaters in November. Check out the trailer here.