Start Swooning: Timothée Chalamet and Robert Pattinson are Starring in a Film Together
Name a more iconic duo...
Gird your loins ladies and gents, your 32-year-old boyfriend and 22-year-old boyfriend are making a movie together. (It seems like a bit of a misstep that your 43-year-old boyfriend, Leonardo Dicaprio, isn’t involved…but hey, we’ll take it.)
It was announced yesterday that vampire dreamboat, Robert Pattinson, has been cast alongside peach charmer, Timothée Chalamet, in Netflix’s upcoming period pic, The King. Your girl crush, Lilly Rose-Depp—daughter of your 54-year-old boyfriend, Johnny—will also be in the David Michod-directed drama. Deadline reports that Chamalet will star as Henry V, Pattinson will play French prince The Dauphin, and Depp will play Chalamet’s love interest/wife-via-arranged-marriage, Princess Catherine.
I’m going ahead and calling it now: this is going to be the sexiest on-screen trio since The Talented Mr. Ripley. I don’t know anything about Shakespeare’s Henry V and VI, the plays which the film is based on, but I’m sure there’s lots of scandal, scheming and sex. MY OVARIES ARE READY!
Timothée Chalamet, Robert Pattinson, Joel Edgerton, Ben Mendelsohn, and Lily-Rose Depp will star in “The King,” based on Shakespeare’s Henry the IV and V. The 2019 Netflix film release will be directed by David Michôd and written by Edgerton and Michôd. pic.twitter.com/zWtf9g7Hib
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While we patiently await 2019, I invite you to check out another piece of filmmaking that celebrates messy-haired, moody bad boys: Robsessed. The poetic documentary was available on Netflix Canada for a long time (I watched it frequently) but it appears to have recently been pulled (for reasons I cannot explain). I can only hope that the visionaries behind Robsessed consider creating an equally important film about Timmy Tim’s stanship. I already have a name picked out: Chalamania. Pretty good, right?
I don’t have much sway over which Hollywood heartthrob documentaries get made, but I do know a few people at the streaming service that’s producing Rob and Timmy’s new film. Dear Netflix: if there are any interview opportunities attached to The King, please call me. I promise to try and keep my cool.