Timothée Chalamet Says Lil B ‘Knighting’ Him Launched Acting Career

Is Lil B the reason why Timothée Chalamet is so successful? The Completely unknown the star certainly means it. In an interview with Narduwar, the actor (and hip-hop fan) shared that he credits his success to a moment on stage with Lil B when he was still in college.

“Lil B is a hugely formative artist in my life and career. He dropped an album called I’m gay and the rollout was highly ambiguous about his sexuality or the meaning of the album. I was just inspired by the feeling of, ‘Wow, this guy does whatever the hell he wants,'” Chalamet said, referring to the rapper’s 2011 LP. “It was just so cool to me that he had this genre of hip-hop that he was just everywhere.”

Chalamet has previously told the story to Vultureand said he raised his hand for a public Q&A with the rapper when the Dune actor asked him to knight him.

“Love Lil B. I met him at NYU. I had $50 from a commercial I did. I bribed a kid to give me his ticket. I was in there all alone front row on the right,” he told Narduwar. “I raised my hand, got a call from him, I told him I wanted to ask my crush out. He invited me on stage and he knighted me.”

“He said, ‘That boy’s hand has been blessed.’ And from there, my acting career took off,” Chalamet said. “Thank you, God. I was fighting before that, I had just done that Royal Pains and then I was nominated for an Oscar before I was 22. Shout out Lil B, nothing is possible without Lil B.”

Chalamet has long credited Lil B with being “transformative” in his career, says Vulture that the rapper’s “live and let live sermon” really pushed him in his career.

“There’s a video online of it,” Chalamet said in 2017. “It’s recognizably me. I’ll see if anyone can find it.” In a 2018 interview, he made with Harry Styles for iD MagazineChalamet expressed that Lil B had been “really impactful for me.”

In one video moment, Chalamet took the stage and knelt as Lil B knighted him, then kissed his hand as the crowd clapped for Chalamet and Lil B. “That’s my brother right there,” Lil B declared. “His hand is gold. “

In the interview with Narduwar, Chalamet also joked that in a recent meeting with Tyler, the Creator, the rapper said he “could sense (Chalamet’s) aura” based on the Lil B meeting.