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Timothee Chalamet is opening up about his auditions for popular franchises in the past and how he was told to gain weight if he wanted to get the role. The 28-year-old actor is now the star of franchises like Dune and Wonka, but he was up for roles in some major franchises earlier in his career. Keep reading to find out more… Timothee says he was told he didn’t have the right body to appear in The Maze Runner, Divergent, or other dystopian franchises. “If I auditioned for The Maze Runner or Divergent, things of that variety that were popping when I was coming up, the feedback was always, ‘Oh, you don’t have the right body,” he told Apple Music’s Zane Lowe. “I had an agent that called me and said, ‘You got to put on weight,’ basically, not aggressively, but you know.” One actor is opening up about being mistaken for Timothee.
