John Travolta celebrated Timothée Chalamet’s latest profession milestone, proving Danny Zuko has not anything but love for Willy Wonka.
In an Instagram post shared on Tuesday, March 20, Travolta, 70, gave Chalamet, 28, a shout-out for becoming the primary actor — since himself! — to have two simultaneous top-grossing movies at the box office over the process 8 months.
“Congratulations Timothée! It’s nice to have any person to share my box office record with, Sincerely, JT,” he wrote.
Travolta earned his badge of honor with Saturday Night Fever (1977) and Grease (1978), protecting onto the record for Forty four years earlier than Chalamet’s equally impressive price tag sales. Chalamet is recently topping the box office with Dune: Part Two and Wonka, the one two movies to surpass $two hundred million since final July, according to IndieWire. (Just over two weeks after its unencumber, Dune: Part Two has pulled in $four hundred million by myself.)
Chalamet plays Paul Atreides in the Dennis Villeneuve-directed sci-fi movie and Willy Wonka, the long-lasting chocolate maker, in Wonka. The actor admitted that taking at the role of Willy, made well-known via Gene Wilder in 1971’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, was the “most bodily challenging venture” he’s ever achieved.
“I will be able to’t say the making a song and dancing comes simple,” he told Vanity Fair in December 2023. “I’ve been around musical theater my entire existence, and danced a little bit in high school, however this was once on a special stage. … You’ve got to stay being in the center of the frame while dancing, you’ve were given to rehearse for months, you’ve got to be on for every take.”
The professional dancers, he added, had been “icing their ankles” between takes. “That’s how critical they were taking it,” he mentioned. “It used to be a large problem.”
Dance classes have been accompanied by vocal coaching, which Chalamet did with track supervisor James Taylor. He sang an bold six original songs, along with reprising the cherished “Pure Imagination.”
Chalamet underwent a equivalent amount of rigorous filming while taking pictures Dune: Part Two, which, at one level, concerned pretending to journey a huge sand computer virus during the wilderness. In a February interview with Screen Rant, he revealed that it took a number of months just to shoot that one moment within the film.
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“We known as it the Worm Unit, and you could get pulled onto that unit 20 or half-hour at a time, and they would slot the availabilities on the subject of the main manufacturing schedule,” he defined. “It was once awe-inspiring. There was once a wall this measurement of a shot checklist that they were dedicating — like, you put 3 months to for what’s ultimately a three-minute sequence.”
Next up for Chalamet is the highly expected Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown, currently in manufacturing. True to form, he’s taking rehearsals seriously, using the vocal workforce who worked with Austin Butler on 2022’s Elvis.
“I’ve principally been running along with his whole Elvis staff for my Dylan prep,” Chalamet told GQ in a December 2023 interview. “There’s a phenomenal dialect coach named Tim Monich. Vocal trainer named Eric Vetro. Movement trainer named Polly Bennett. I just noticed the way in which he dedicated to all of it — and learned I needed to step it up.”
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