Timothée Chalamet Says “No” To TV Return & What He Tells Critics Who Call Him A “Try-Hard”
Timothée Chalamet is clear about what type of projects he wants to work on, but none will seemingly involve a return to television.
Despite many award-winning actors taking on high-profile roles in television series for HBO, FX, Apple TV, Netflix, and beyond, Chalamet doesn’t intend to return to the small screen.
In a new interview with Vogue, the Dune star was asked if he would consider acting in a TV show, to which he replied, “No.”
Like many actors, Chalamet got his start in television, booking roles in shows like Law & Order, where he guest-starred in a 2009 episode. Chalamet would go on to have a recurring role in Royal Pains and Showtime’s Homeland in 2012, his last credit in a television series.
Chalamet would focus on film, landing a role in Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar in 2014. He would go on to star in other movies before breaking out in Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me by Your Name in 2017, which earned him his first Oscar nomination. Since then he’s starred in films like Lady Bird (2017), Beautiful Boy (2018), Little Women (2019), Bones and All (2023), Wonka (2023), as well as the Dune film series.
In 2024 he starred as Bob Dylan in the biopic A Complete Unknown, which he received Oscar buzz for earning a nomination and taking a SAG Award for his role. However, the actor ended up losing out to Adrien Brody for his role in The Brutalist, and his loss was a major disappointment for him.
“If there’s five people at an awards show, and four people go home losing,” Chalamet told the publication. “You don’t think those four people are at the restaurant like, ‘Damn, we didn’t win’? I’ve been around some deeply generous, no-ego actors, and maybe some of them are going, ‘That was fun.’ But I know for a fact a lot of them are going, ‘Fuck!’”
He continued, “People can call me a try-hard, and they can say whatever the fuck, but I’m the one actually doing it here.”
Chalamet’s next film is Marty Supreme, which could lead him to another opportunity at an Oscar playing the role of a tennis star loosely inspired by table tennis player Marty Reisman.
