Timothée Chalamet

And go for it he did on the red carpet at the Venice Film Festival, hitting the premiere of his new film Bones and All in a sleeveless, backless, scarf-included ...

Even with the premiere now in the rearview, we have a feeling this won't be the only wild TC outfit we get from Venice. And off the carpet, he's been leaning into what our Samuel Hine called his “post-swag era,” in which our star “looks more like a Gallatin student on a hungover bagel run” than the swashbuckling movie star he is. At 26, he's one of our finest young actors, and certainly one of the most committed to going for it, sartorially speaking.

Chalamet appeared at the Venice Film Festival for his new film, "Bones and All."

“That story is about someone who’s on a prophecy—on a path, and can’t get off it,” said Chalamet. “I can’t imagine what it is to grow up with the onslaught of social media, and it was a relief to play characters who are wrestling with an internal dilemma absent the ability to go on Reddit, or Twitter, Instagram or TikTok and figure out where they fit in.” “I’m not casting judgement,” he added.

The cannibal romance "Bones and All” is having its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, where it is among the competition titles.

She’s played by “Waves” actor Taylor Russell, a newcomer to the Guadagnino family of regulars like Michael Stuhlbarg, as a creepy cannibal they meet on the road, and Chloë Sevigny. And without being pretentious, I hope that’s why these movies matter, because the role of the artist is to shine a light on what’s going on.” “Luca is fatherly with me and guided me in that process this time,” he said. “I was dying to work with Luca again and tell a story that was grounded,” said Chalamet, who took a break from filming “Dune 2” to appear in Venice. The film, “Bones and All” is having its world premiere Friday night at the Venice Film Festival, where it is among the competition titles. Then his longtime collaborator, screenwriter David Kajganich, came to him with an adaptation of Camille DeAngelis’ young adult novel and he saw in it an opportunity to make a film about identity and outcasts.

Timothée Chalamet is back at the Venice Film Festival, for the world premiere of Luca Guadagnino's Bones And All screening in competition.

Not that we’re attention hungry narcissistic beings, but nonetheless you need that contact to understand where you are and I felt a similar disillusionment that I think Lee was feeling in the script at that point.” “A big part of it was a tribelessness, was being cut off from the social contact that helps us understand where we are in the world… Based on the book by Camille DeAngelis and adapted by David Kajganich, the film tells the story of Maren (Russell) and Lee (Chalamet), two unlikely companions who unite in America’s Midwest in the 1980s after Maren is abandoned by her father. It’s so scary because the hope is really you can find your own compass within all of it and that seems like a difficult task now.” Star [Timothée Chalamet](https://deadline.com/tag/timothee-chalamet/), returning to the Lido after last year’s triumphant world premiere of Dune, sounded a gloomy outlook when asked his thoughts on the plight of young people today and their experiences with being judged for their choices, particularly in the age of social media. [Taylor Russell](https://deadline.com/tag/taylor-russell/) as well as Mark Rylance, Michael Stuhlbarg, Chloë Sevigny and David Gordon Green.