Timothée Chalamet's backless scarlet jumpsuit is all the rage!

The popular star walked the red carpet at the Venice Film Fest for his recent offering, Bones and All

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Bones and All starring Timothée Chalamet and Taylor Russell is an old-style love story and highway film with a twist – the star-crossed protagonists are cannibals struggling to dwell with their horrific affliction.

“I really feel prefer it has been one of many weirdest components of my profession,” Chalamet instructed Reuters forward of the film’s premiere on Friday at the Venice Movie Pageant.

The image reunites Chalamet with director Luca Guadagnino, the Italian auteur behind Call Me By Your Name, the 2017 coming-of-age film that helped propel the younger US actor to worldwide stardom.

Since then, Chalamet has performed a string of usually intense, troubled younger males. However, Bones and All takes issues a number of phases additional as he hooks up with Russell and the pair cross the US Midwest wrestling with and typically succumbing to, their inside demons.

Chalamet mentioned he hoped the viewers would look past the gore and see the humanity in the coronary heart of the story. “I hope it would not get misconstrued as a horror movie or a cannibal movie, or a movie that pretends edgy that’s making an attempt to shock you,” he mentioned.

“It’s about a lot greater than that. It’s in regard to human expertise. It’s about being alive at a time when there wasn’t the Web and being completely disenfranchised and discovering a love that makes you’re feeling seen.”

Earlier than discovering Chalamet, the movie follows Russell as she seeks out her long-lost mom and, for the primary time, confronts a world of fellow “eaters”, together with Sully, performed by Mark Rylance, with whom she shares an appalling meal.

Though the feral consuming scenes are prone to shock many cinema-goers, Russell mentioned they weren’t exhausting to behave out. “The goriness, in the event you would name it that, (has) a tactile ingredient to it as a result of it’s so sensible to behave. So you do not have to suppose an excessive amount about it. You simply should do it. The emotional stuff is what you are concerned about,” she instructed Reuters.

It’s the second 12 months operating that Chalamet has headlined a significant movie at Venice, following on from his 2021 blockbuster Dune, and lots of followers waited beneath a fierce summer season solar to catch a glimpse of their hero stepping out onto the crimson carpet.

“Man, it is wonderful. That is nice, all this power, I really feel like I am again residence,” Chalamet mentioned after stepping ashore on the Lido, an extended, pencil island within the Venice lagoon, the place the world’s oldest movie competition performs out.

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