Five years after Call Me By Your Name, Timothée Chalamet has continued his reign as culture’s foremost Soft Boy Hunk, a role once held by Titanic-era Leonardo DiCaprio, as all scholars of pop culture hotties well know. In his cover interview for British Vogue, Chalamet revealed the two pieces of advice DiCaprio once bestowed on him back in 2018—and no, it was not instructions on how to form one’s own “Pussy Posse” (Timmy would never).
“No hard drugs and no superhero movies,” DiCaprio allegedly advised the young actor. DiCaprio famously abstains from all drugs, telling the LA Times in 2014 that growing up surrounded by crack cocaine and heroin abuse was enough to put him off from experimenting altogether. As for the superhero movie rule, I guess it’s worked for Leo?
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It’s not the first time Chalamet has talked about the no-drugs-or-superheros rule in an interview—though it is the first time he revealed the person who gave it. In a 2018 interview with Time, Chalamet said, “One of my heroes—I can’t say who or he’d kick my ass—he put his arm around me the first night we met and gave me some advice…no hard drugs. And no superhero movies.” So, prayers up for Chalamet’s ass now that the cat’s out of the bag.
Personally, I can get behind the hard drugs abstinence program, but the superhero movie thing seems a bit elitist, doesn’t it? And furthermore, Dune may not count technically as a superhero movie, but isn’t it kind of spiritually a superhero movie? I don’t know, it feels like a loophole.
I may not be one of Timothée Chalamet’s heroes (yet), but my advice is: Go ahead and join the MCU, baby. You get that check.
