Face of Generation: The humble actor and fascist who will be the next star

He is insanely shy, humble, doesn't talk about his novels with Madonna's daughter and Johnny Depp's daughter, and fits like a Z-era glove. Besides, he is also an excellent actor and daring fascist. Who are you, Timothy Shallama? Why does everyone say you're the next Leonardo DiCaprio?

Timothy Shalama (Photo: shutterstock)

Timothy Shalama (Photo: ShutterStock)

At the Golden Globe Awards last year, 23-year-old actor Timothy Shalama stood out in particular, who gave up the suit and walked on Louis Wheaton's black total, with her glittering level shimmering to the worlds of bdsm, couture and ballroom dancing all at once.

Locke's drama - and the ability to move so much with minimal tools - is typical of Shalama's career from the beginning. Although he seems to have always been here, he actually broke into our consciousness just less than two years ago. The role he made after he made several appearances was in the film "Call Me By Your Name" by Italian director Luca Guadanino, who was supposed to turn Aramie Hammer into a "serious" actor but instead labeled Shalama as a crazy promise. In the film, which takes place in 1980s Italy, Alama portrays, in perfect adulthood and maturity, the boy Elio, who spends the summer in a magical villa with his parents and reveals his attraction to men upon the arrival of a stud visitor from the United States. Many remember the humble dance scene of Hummer, but it was Alama who gave the movie the finer game - which made everyone start asking "Who is this boy?"

Quite a few young, handsome players get the "next thing" tagline, which relies primarily on their Instagram power and their sex-epic index. Short list? Ansel Algort from Baby Driver, who has been a bit off since then; Tom Holland, the new Spider-Man; And Ezra Miller, who is getting more and more peculiar as the clock ticks. Shalama, however, belongs to a different breed: almost simultaneously with "Call Me by Your Name", which earned him an Oscar nomination, he also emerged in the blockbuster, critically acclaimed "Lady Bird" hit. His role there is fundamentally different from the one he played in his breakout movie: Dosh Boy and Anarchist Demicolo, who is so annoying that way. Here, the visitors thought, was no longer a pretty face, but a really talented player. Oh yeah, it also helped that Shalama wasn't really a pretty man - at least not in the classic sense.

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In March a year ago, GQ magazine put Shalama on the cover announcing that the young actor had "just arrived on time." It's hard not to agree. The #metoo episode just exploded at the same time. The gender mixing trend, in which more and more of the Z generation refuses to identify as men or women and prefers identity or fluidity, has also knocked on our door - and both of those factors have marked the end of classical masculinity as we know it. At such a time, the arrival of a boyish actor, a stooped and shamed drop who in no way sells us aggression or toughness, could not have been more welcome. What's more, Shalama is particularly happy to play vulnerable and not very flattering roles: He recently made the move to DiCaprio and entered the shoes of a drug-addicted teenager in the film production Beautiful Boy, based on two autobiographical books by father and son.

His salary from Woody's Allen movie, A Rainy Day in New York, said he would contribute to the Time's Up movement, which fights male privilege to use positions of power - perhaps alluding to Allen's dubious status in the film scene. While he is dating especially Hollywood girls - formerly Lourdes, Madonna's daughter, and today, according to rumors, Lily Rose Depp - he keeps his relationships under the radar.

His Instagram (3 million followers) mainly has pictures of him with his mother (a dancer in her past) and his sister (an actress and dancer who lives in France). In the absence of an exemplary Instagram persona, modesty and discomfort characterize Shalama more than anything in his public appearances in talk shows and interviews. "I thought if I wore this sparkly jacket I would feel more confident in myself, but it didn't really work," he told Jimmy Fallon last October. The jacket, as you might guess, was amazing.

Not only is Shalama the perfect model of the modern young man - neurotic as the New York Jew who is (from the mother side), as charming as the slack he is (from the father side) and sober like the whole generation he represents - he is also the one who will save us from the recent fashionable red carpet on the red carpet . Not long ago, The Cut posted an amused supplier who asked a serious question: Is Alama the next Tilda Swinton? Swinton, couture and uniqueness, need not be introduced: the woman lives in a world of her own, lives on the red carpet with the wildest designer fantasies and never looks like anyone else. Alama will never be able to replace Swinton, but there are quite a few launch points between them: both have an androgynous epic that flirts with both genders, a slender figure shaped by avant-garde designer sketches, a liking for hair-from-the-bed-in-the-morning-and-the-hair-in-case- And most importantly - they both really understand fashion.

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It is no coincidence that both Swinton and Shlama are muses by Haider Ackerman, the well-known Colombian-French designer who marvel at designing nonchalant suits and items that both sexes will look good on. Ackerman often dressed Shalama. In other cases, the rising actor chose fashion houses such as Louis Vuitton or McQueen (where he would design an artistic and colorful suit) and designers like Hedy Slimon (who put him in leather pants and a dot shirt). Like Swinton, Alama also occasionally likes to wear one color from head to toe - red and white are fibroids - and he also likes to shatter expectations and go against the flow (a suit covered in roses, anyone?).

Since no fashion company has picked it up to star in the meantime, it's still free to jump from designer to designer and build its resume as a fashion icon in the making. When we see particularly disturbed collections marching on the fashion week tracks and wondering "But which man will wear this?" - Well, Alama is the man, and he does it without a hint of effort and without losing a peep from the timid charisma that marked him as heartbreaking.

Don't believe us? Well, you might believe one of the smartest women in Hollywood - Greta Gervig, the actress and director who cast Shalama for "Lady Bird," who said: "He's Christian Bale, Daniel Day Lewis, Leonardo DiCaprio - heartbreaking, but also equipped with huge acting talent. -Foundation".

Unicorns, whether in Silicon Valley or the fairytale world, are rare creatures whose mass existence is possible only by virtue of belief and fantasy. Shallama's existence is certainly real - and yet it is hard to believe that we have won it.