Timothée Chalamet Reveals Leonardo DiCaprio's Career Advice and Talks 'Wonka' Role

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Timothée Chalamet is sharing some sage career advice Leonardo DiCaprio gave him. In British October issue, where Chalamet is making history as the first male solo star on the cover, the 26-year-old got candid about his career and his upcoming role as Willy Wonka in the movie musical, .The advice from DiCaprio came in 2018, when Chalamet first met the Oscar-winning actor, and the  star kept it pretty simple: «No hard drugs and no superhero movies.»While it appears Chalamet has achieved that so far, the  actor said he never envisioned his career blowing up the way that it has.«I had a delusional dream in my early teenage years to have, in my late teenage years, an acting career.

And in my late teenage years, working on and starting to do theatre in New York, I felt like I reduced my goal to something more realistic, which was to work in theatre and hopefully make enough money doing either a TV show or something I could sustain myself [with],» Chalamet explains. «And then it felt like every dream came true, exponentially.

And then life is moving at six million miles per hour.»The COVID-19 pandemic forced him to take a step back, however, giving him a perspective he said he didn't have until now.«When COVID hit, it required me to take a step back and be humbled to the idea that the greatest rock star…No, I don’t want to use that word, sorry, sorry.