Timothèe Chalamet Blasts Social Media Negativity: ‘It’s Tough to Be Alive Now’

variety.com:

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent On Friday morning, Timothée Chalamet blasted the social media world we are living in at the Venice press conference for Luca Guadagino’s “Bones and All” in which he and co-star Taylor Russell play cannibal lovers on a road trip across America.

Taking his cue from the fact that the story is set in the ’80s, when social media did not exist, Chalamet went on an anti-social media tirade. “I think true to that sentiment.

To be young today…I can’t imagine what it is to grow up without the onslaught of social media,” he said. “And at least here [in ‘Bones’] there are characters wrestling with internal blood lines vis-a-vis [struggling with] growing up with Instagram or Twitter; trying to figure out where they fit in with that.” “I’m not casting judgement,” he added. “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.” Based on the book by Camille DeAngelis and adapted by David Kajganich, with whom Guadagnino collaborated on “A Bigger Splash” and “Suspiria,” “Bones” is a story Maren (Taylor Russell), a young woman learning how to survive on the margins of society, and Lee (Chalamet), an intense and disenfranchised drifter, as they meet and join together for a thousand-mile odyssey which takes them through the back roads, hidden passages and trap doors of Ronald Reagan’s America.