Before 'Dune', Timothée Chalamet modded Xbox 360 controllers
Dune star Timothée Chalamet admits he used to mod Xbox 360 controllers on YouTube.
Vice hired investigative reporters to discover whether or not a YouTube channel belongs to a young Timothée Chalamet, who plays Paul Atreides in Dune.
The video shows a young boy with a raspy voice, his head obscured from the frame. He’s holding a modded Xbox 360 controller with red and black stripes across its body.
“Here’s a red tiger,” the voice says. “Started it yesterday, finished it today. It looks nice. It looks sexy.”
The voice sounds close to Chalamet’s in Law & Order, which was his first big break as an actor in 2009, just before this YouTube video was uploaded.
Vice also compared the scar on the finger in the video to the same scar sported by the Dune actor’s ring finger, confirming a match.
Here’s the video in question:
The website also poured through old photos of Chalamet and compared details of the furniture from his childhood, noting that the chair in the video is the same as one from his boyhood Instagram photos. According to Vice, “It is him.”
This is backed up by YouTuber Nate Hill, who interviewed Chalamet and got confirmation that the channel was his. In the same video, Dune co-star Zendaya confirms that The Sims is more her “vibe”.
An interview confirmation isn’t quite as fun as a forensic investigation, though, is it?
Timothée Chalamet is one of the hottest stars in Hollywood right now. His most recent movie, Dune, opened to $40.1 million in box office revenue in North America.
Comments are turned off on his Xbox 360 controller video, but it now has 285,232 views on YouTube.
Written by Kirk McKeand on behalf of GLHF.