{"id":229161,"date":"2019-09-02T19:17:31","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T23:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=229161"},"modified":"2019-09-02T19:17:31","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T23:17:31","slug":"for-timothee-chalamet-becoming-the-king-was-terrifying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/09\/02\/for-timothee-chalamet-becoming-the-king-was-terrifying\/","title":{"rendered":"For Timothee Chalamet, becoming ‘The King’ was terrifying"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Timothee Chalamet is already one of the most acclaimed young actors working today, but he says that the prospect playing young Henry V in “The King”\u00a0was terrifying. (File Photo<\/a>: tchalamet\/Instagram<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

VENICE, Italy \u2014\u00a0Timothee Chalamet is already one of the most acclaimed young actors working today, but he says that the prospect playing young Henry V in “The King”\u00a0was terrifying.<\/p>\n

“It was a real challenge for me,”\u00a0Chalamet said Monday at the Venice International Film Festival, where the film is having its world premiere. “It was terrifying at the same time but I had an amazing time.”<\/p>\n

He was drawn to the project simply because he was out of his wheelhouse. The 23-year-old has been nominated for an Oscar, but he’s never done stunts, worked with swords or played a role quite like this. And not many people his age have.<\/p>\n

The film is drawn from Shakespeare’s “Henry V”\u00a0as well as “Henry IV”\u00a0parts one and two. Co-writer and co-star Joel Edgerton, who plays Falstaff, had had a formative experience doing the plays. But they’d often cast older actors who had the perceived gravitas and experience for the part.<\/p>\n

“There was a real aversion to using younger actors for these roles,”\u00a0Chalamet said. “At the time power was wielded by unusually young people…That felt new and unique to explore.”<\/p>\n

He said there is something “disturbed”\u00a0about young people having so much power.<\/p>\n

The film follows young Henry, or Hal, from his drunken days in Eastcheap to his early days as King of England, a position he never wanted and takes reluctantly when his father, Henry IV (Ben Mendelsohn), dies.<\/p>\n

David Michod (“War Machine”) co-wrote the script with Edgerton and co-wrote the movie even though he never saw himself doing a “swords and horses”\u00a0epic. But he was intrigued to put his own spin on the plays, adding things from history and making up, “A whole bunch of stuff.”<\/p>\n

When asked about Robert Pattinson playing a dandy version of the Dauphin \u2014\u00a0the son of King Charles of France \u2014\u00a0and whether or not that was rooted in history, Michod said, “I honestly can’t remember what’s real, what’s made up and what’s from Shakespeare.”<\/p>\n

But, he added, having worked with Pattinson before on “The Rover,”\u00a0that it was “important to me that when he appeard in the movie, he does so with razzle dazzle.”<\/p>\n

“The King”\u00a0is playing out of competition at Venice, and is one of three Netflix films, including “The Laundromat”\u00a0and “Marriage Story”\u00a0making their debut on the Lido. It will open in theatres Oct. 11, before hitting Netflix on Nov. 1.<\/p>\n

Chalamet, meanwhile, also has “Little Women”\u00a0coming to theatres this Christmas, reuniting him with his “Lady Bird”\u00a0director Greta Gerwig.<\/p>\n

“I’m really trying to just do great projects and things that are challenging,”\u00a0Chalamet said. “I feel I’m really still learning and trying to chase whatever best version of an actor I can be.”<\/p>\n

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