Exploring the rise – and ‘fall’ – of Timothée Chalamet as his biggest fan club shuts down 

The red carpets are being rolled away, and awards season ends with Timothée Chalamet once again not winning an Oscar.

Is the 30-year-old actor cursed? Were the stars not aligned? Or is this the start of a quieter chapter in the filmography of Chalamet, once dubbed the ‘straight prince of twinks’?

Things turned even more serious when one of the actor’s biggest fan clubs announced it was shutting down.

Club Chalamet, run by Simone Cromer, who started the page in 2018, is walking away from the Timmy Standom.

With over 50,000 followers on Twitter and 15,000 on Instagram, Club Chalamet has been a vocal supporter of Chalamet on and off-screen. She even had a profile in The Wall Street Journal.

When Michael B. Jordan took the Best Actor Oscar for Sinners, it seemed clear that Chalamet’s Marty Supreme Oscar campaign didn’t win over voters.

Most recently, Chalamet ruffled feathers when he remarked that ballet and opera were art forms that audiences do not care about.

“I don’t want to be working in ballet, or opera, or things where it’s like, ‘Hey, keep this thing alive, even though like no one cares about this anymore’,” Chalamet said.

His comments seemed to be the breaking point after his loud and flashy Marty Supreme press tour.

Though some may feel like they’ve seen too much of Chalamet, that wasn’t always the case.

Chalamet’s major breakout came with Luca Guadagnino’s irresistible LGBTQ+ drama Call Me By Your Name. He played Elio, a young man who fell for his father’s temporary assistant.

The coming-of-age story set in Northern Italy won hearts around the globe and launched Chalamet’s career. He quickly became a beloved indie star, with calls for a film sequel that is unlikely to come to fruition.

He’s always been playful when it comes to his movie star status. He played “gay famous” in a Troye Sivan SNL parody. He even delighted fans by crashing his own look-alike contest.

Then he skipped into Wonka, playing the iconic Willy Wonka in a career move none of us were expecting.

However, Chalamet has also leant into more serious roles. He brought a touching sensitivity to Beautiful Boy and then reunited with Guadagnino for the horror romance Bones and All.

It’s also important to note that he has repeatedly shown up for the LGBTQ+ community.

He gave $1000 to New York’s LGBTQI Center at the 2019 Golden Globes. The year before that, the star vowed to donate the entire fee for his part in Woody Allen’s movie A Rainy Day in New York to charities including New York’s LGBT Community Centre.

He said he took the step because he didn’t want to “profit” from working with Allen, whose adopted daughter has accused the Annie Hall director of sexually assaulting her when she was seven.

As if it wasn’t already clear, Chalamet secured his movie star status with Dune and Dune: Part Two. Chalamet will return to the big screen later this year for Dune: Part Three.

However, other than the third Dune instalment, 2026 may be a quiet year for Chalamet in terms of big releases.

But maybe this is needed, after a mammoth global press tour where everything he said was clipped up. Perhaps, like the creator of Club Chalamet, we all need a break.