Timothée Chalamet was in good company during a visit with fans this weekend, where he was more than likely asked to call them by his name.
On Sunday, the Oscar nominee made a surprise appearance at New York City’s Madison Square Park, where hundreds of fans gathered to compete in a Timothée Chalamet lookalike contest.
In videos shared to social media, several doppelgängers posed for photos in the sea of people before the Dune star joined them, resulting in some genuinely shocked faces. A frenzy broke out as he hugged his admirers and posed with them.
Incidentally, Chalamet didn’t win the contest, arriving with a mustache and a shorter head of hair — after portraying Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown.
The contest took place after flyers popped up around the city with a QR link to the event’s Partiful page and the offer of a $50 cash prize. As of Sunday afternoon, the page had nearly 2,700 RSVPs.
Miles Mitchell, a 21-year old college student from Staten Island, reportedly won the contest with his cosplay of Chalamet’s titular character in last year’s Willy Wonka prequel Wonka.
The competition comes after the first trailer for Searchlight Pictures’ A Complete Unknown debuted earlier this month, showing Chalamet as Dylan in the James Mangold-helmed biopic, which premieres Dec. 25 in theaters.
Last month, Chalamet began filming the Josh Safdie-directed sports drama Marty Supreme, which also stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Tyler the Creator, Odessa A’zion, Fran Drescher and Sandra Bernhard.
