Can Timothee Chalamet speak Italian?

Trivia (61) Timothée Chalamet learned to speak Italian and play the classical piano pieces used in the film.

Is Timothee Chalamet of French descent?

Timothée Hal Chalamet was born in Manhattan, to Nicole Flender, a real estate broker and dancer, and Marc Chalamet, a UNICEF editor. His mother, who is from New York, is Jewish, of Russian Jewish and Austrian Jewish descent. His father, who is from Nîmes, France, is of French and English ancestry.

Is Timothée a Chalamet Moroccan?

His French roots come from his dad’s side of the family. His French dad, Marc Chalamet, is from Nîmes, France and Timothée grew up spending summers at his grandparent’s home in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, a small French village two hours away from Lyon.

Why does Timothee Chalamet speak Italian?

He Speaks French and Italian Chalamet speaks French fluently and spent many of his childhood summers in France. He traveled to Italy a month and a half before filming Call Me by Your Name so that he could learn the language, as well as take piano and guitar lessons to get into character.

Is Chalamet religious?

Not only is Chalamet Jewish, he is unabashedly so. As he told Film School Rejects about the role of Judaism in “Call Me By Your Name”: “It wasn’t something I could verbalize or understand in a conscious domain, but rather, there’s something inexplicable about [Jewishness] that is a driving force in the film.

Is Timothee Chalamet a dual citizen?

Chalamet is bilingual in English and French, and holds dual United States and French citizenship, due to his French father. Growing up, Chalamet spent summers in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, a small French village two hours away from Lyon, at the home of his paternal grandparents.