Actor Timothée Chalamet paid a shock go to Thursday with aspiring actors at Hibbing Excessive Faculty, leaving the scholars “gobsmacked,” based on their drama coach.
“One in every of my college students stated, ‘I really feel like I am within the Twilight Zone proper now,'” Megan Reynolds stated.
Chalamet, greatest recognized for starring roles in “Wonka” and “Dune,” stopped at Hibbing Excessive to analysis his upcoming function as Duluth-born and Hibbing-bred legend Bob Dylan, in a movie in regards to the singer-songwriter’s formative years.
After getting a guided tour, the actor visited the varsity’s drama division for store speak, based on Reynolds. The scholars had been training their elements for the varsity’s production Friday of “The Girl in the White Pinafore,” however had no concept Chalamet was within the seats watching.
After an enormous reveal, Chalamet “talked and geeked out about theater” for 45 minutes with the scholars, Reynolds stated, in the identical auditorium the place Dylan carried out as a highschool pupil greater than 60 years in the past.
He fielded questions on working as an actor and requested the scholars questions as properly. Some had been clearly star-struck, she stated.
“My college students had a little bit of a shell-shocked search for a second, after which a few of them form of shook their heads a second, after which large smiles came to visit their faces,” Reynolds stated. “It was a extremely beautiful second, it was very candy.”
Most of the drama college students “wish to proceed in theater after highschool, so that they had lots of questions on being knowledgeable actor and being a film actor … and the way you get from level A to level B,” stated Reynolds’ husband, Jefferson Reynolds, who was there.
After the actor left, the coed forged held one remaining gown rehearsal. It was, Megan Reynolds stated, “the very best my college students had ever carried out.”
Chalamet additionally was reported to have stopped in Duluth, the place he had black drip espresso and a breakfast sandwich at Duluth Espresso Firm, based on a tweet from a USA At the moment reporter.
The upcoming biopic, “A Full Unknown,” follows Dylan in his early years as a musician and will probably be directed by James Mangold. It is set to start manufacturing in New York this yr, according to Deadline.
Chalamet is not going to solely play Dylan however voice the half as properly, as he does in “Wonka,” launched in December.
Employees author Casey Darnell contributed to this story.
