Viola Davis has responded to the “beautiful” Timothée Chalamet acceptance speech shout-out that he gave her recently.
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Last week (March 27), Davis attended the premiere of her new action drama G20 and spoke about Chalamet’s comments during his acceptance speech when winning Best Performance By An Actor In A Leading Role at the Screen Actors Guild Awards earlier this year.
Chalamet won for his performance in Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown and during his speech, shouted out actors whose work he admired and hoped to replicate in his own career.
He said: “I’m as inspired by Daniel Day-Lewis, Marlon Brando, and Viola Davis as I am by Michael Jordan and Michael Phelps. I wanna be up there so I’m deeply grateful to that. This doesn’t signify that, but it’s a little more fuel, it’s a little more ammo to keep going.”
Speaking about the mention to Access Hollywood, Davis said: “It was a speech about excellence. It wasn’t about celebrity, it wasn’t about EGOT,” said Davis. I completely understood it and it was beautiful.”
A Complete Unknown was released earlier this year and tells the story of Dylan’s rise to fame in the 1960s.
In a new interview with NME, Hollywood legend Cate Blanchett – who previously played Bob Dylan in Todd Haynes’ experimental 2007 biopic I’m Not There – confirmed she saw A Complete Unknown and said of Chalamet: “I thought he was fantastic. I really loved the whole film.”
“A Complete Unknown is a very different endeavour to Todd Haynes’ film, which was about shape-shifting identity and an artist’s refusal to be pinned down,” she continued.
“I’ve never been more liberated than [when I was] asked to play so wildly against type and gender… Because you knew there was a woman [behind] that iconic silhouette of Dylan when he went electric, you were complicit with the audience in it. There was no way you’d ever be accused of mimicry,” she continued.
In NME‘s four-star review of A Complete Unknown, Alex Flood wrote: “If you’re a Bob newbie, you’ll leave the cinema ready to dive into his back catalogue. If you’re already a fan, the next few weeks will be spent making playlists of lesser-known B-sides or reading the lore around a scene you weren’t familiar with. And that’s why it was a good idea to make this film – a mad idea, but a good one.”
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