If Mark Eydelshteyn attends the upcoming Timothée Chalamet lookalike contest in New York Metropolis, he’s bought high prize within the bag.
The Anora star, 22, and has gone viral on-line for his placing resemblance to Wonka actor, 28, and has even been described because the “Russian Timothée Chalamet.” For Eydelshteyn, there’s no comparability he’d be extra honored to have.
“I’m very grateful for this comparability as a result of he’s an incredible actor, truthfully,” Eydelshteyn solely informed Us Weekly on the pink carpet for Anora’s New York premiere on Tuesday, October 15, earlier than including with amusing, “However I simply can’t perceive one factor — why he’s working in New York proper now and he’s not right here!”
Chalamet, for his half, has been noticed just lately filming Josh Safdie’s Marty Supreme in NYC. Eydelshteyn — lengthy curly hair, pale pores and skin, gentle eyes and endearing power make him a useless ringer for the Dune star — joked that it was a “knife within the again” Chalamet couldn’t make time to indicate up for his lookalike twin.
“We’re speaking about him an excessive amount of and we’re speaking in a great way,” he quipped. “He’s superb, however why he’s not right here is loopy.”
The doppelgangers haven’t met but, however after they do, Eydelshteyn has a message for Chalamet: “Hello man. Thanks to your works. And do you want Anora? What do you consider the philosophy of Anora?”
In Sean Baker’s raunchy comedy, which is the winner of this yr’s Palme d’Or on the Cannes Movie Pageant, Eydelshteyn performs the son of a Russian billionaire who throughout his journey to America, is on an on a regular basis bender stuffed with intercourse, medicine and many lavish spending. Whereas he’s at HQ one evening, a Manhattan strip membership, he meets Ani (quick for Anora and performed by Mikey Madison). Their whirlwind romance ramps up and per week later, the couple married in Vegas, besides their destiny is something however fortunately ever after.
Anora can also be Eydelshteyn’s first main English-speaking function, and the movie has launched him into the highlight.
Whereas talking to Us, Eydelshteyn gushed in regards to the probability to be part of the challenge, noting that working with acclaimed director Baker and a powerhouse actress like Madison had been particular highlights.
“Mikey and Sean are superb folks. Among the best folks I met in my skilled life and in my human life additionally too,” he mentioned. “They’re very variety, each of them and so they’re very sensible and really gifted and it was only a massive pleasure to be near them.”
Anora hit theaters on Friday, October 18.