Over the last few months, it’s become increasingly clear that Timothée Chalamet, the golden boy of Hollywood, has fallen out of favour among young people. Many believed the day would never come, as Chalamet, with his floppy brown hair and “intense” green eyes, played gut-wrenchingly sensitive characters in Call Me By Your Name (2017), Beautiful Boy (2018) and Little Women (2019). While we watched him desperately pine over Oliver (Armie Hammer) and Jo (Saoirse Ronan), he appealed so perfectly to the desires many young people have about men: that they can be beautiful, kind and sensitive. The vulnerability he displayed in those roles, coupled with his slender frame, meant that he was seen as the antithesis of “toxic masculinity”, and...
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