This weekend, Timothée Chalamet took part in a lookalike competition (videos)

A prize of $50 was planned for the young man who most resembled the Wonka actor.

In 1975, Charlie Chaplin participated in a lookalike competition, but lost to around twenty Charlots more convincing than him! The anecdote is great, but impossible to verify, as the actor and director died two years later without having had time to confirm it…

Nearly 50 years later, Timothée Chalamet has indeed become embedded in “her” Look-alike contest in New York. An event that GQ told in detail, and of which several photos and videos can be found on social networks. Failing to have a winner…

Advertisements had been posted everywhere in the Washington Square Park area: “Meet under the famous arch of the park, on Sunday October 27 at 1 p.m., to participate in a Timothée Chalamet lookalike competition. A prize of 50 dollars is at stake.”

Right in the middle filming of Marty Supremeby Josh Safdie, in this same city, the 27-year-old actor obviously came across the information: there is even a photo, taken by a fan with her phone, of Timothée, in a costume, walking in front of the poster! A little after 1 p.m., hidden behind a surgical mask, the star of Dune and of Wonka mingled with the crowd, composed mainly of young people with curly hair, aquiline noses and angular faces, triggering howls of surprise among all those people who had gathered for the competition.

Accompanied by his bodyguard, the actor posed with one of his lookalikes, Spencer DeLorenzo, 22, who can be seen here on the shoulders of one of his friends, very happy to be the favorite of voters in the competition:

Too bad for him, the $50 prize was never awarded, because a few minutes before Timothée Chalamet’s arrival, the police came and asked the people present for the competition to disperse. Its organizers had not made a formal request to the city authorities! Anthony Po, the YouTuber behind this approach, was even fined $500 for “non-compliance with the rules”while one of the look-alikes, considered too agitated, was arrested, to cries of protest from several New Yorkers present.

About fifteen minutes after the police arrived, the crowd started screaming again, this time recognizing the real Timothée Chalamet, who was therefore unable to win his own competition, but who caused a sensation among his fans!

Remember that Timothée Chalamet grew up in New York, in the Hell’s Kitchen district of Manhattan, and that he did part of his studies in this same city, very close to the park where this lookalike competition was organized. GQ specifies that some fans of the actor had planned to launch a fundraiser in case he showed up at the event, in order to raise thousands of dollars for charities.