Is Hollywood's new golden boy REALLY a 'hyper-paranoid diva'? Insiders reveal 'frat boy' behavior behind the scenes of Timothee Chalamet's new movie... and the cruel edict allegedly issued to the crew

If America's caller Hollywood sweetheart is simply a man, it would beryllium character Timothee Chalamet.

On-screen, he brims pinch affectional vulnerability. Off-screen, he is goofy, occasionally awkward and, sometimes, deliriously smiley.

'Timothee! Timmy!' screamed a crowd of hundreds waiting for a glimpse of him extracurricular nan Venice Film Festival's Sala Casino successful September 2022.

Many of them had been waiting 3 hours successful nan basking sun.

'It feels bully to person a Gen-Z prima who seems genuinely nice, whom we tin each look up to,' gushed 1 fangirl.

Indeed, it would... but what if Tinseltown's delicate caller aureate boy is only acting?

Movie manufacture insiders who worked intimately pinch Chalamet connected his upcoming Bob Dylan biopic, 'A Complete Unknown,' declare nan burgeoning superstar is, successful fact, a raging 'diva'.

And arsenic filming wrapped connected nan task successful June, respective crewmembers said exclusively to DailyMail.com astir nan allegedly 'toxic' on-set situation fraught pinch complaints of  'cruelty' and 'frat-boy behavior.'

'[Chalamet] was hyper-paranoid,' said a crewmember connected nan film's Hoboken, New Jersey set. 

'We were not allowed to make oculus interaction pinch him aliases present ourselves.'

In 1 encounter, Chalamet allegedly flew into a rage and 'cursed out' a low-level accumulation adjunct who - while snapping a image of nan star eclipse connected April 8, 2024 - accidentally included nan character successful a photo's frame.

A information defender connected nan accumulation 'scoured her telephone and made her delete each nan photos,' nan insider claimed.

Just 20 minutes later, Chalamet reportedly forced nan movie's producers to nonstop a strongly-worded email to nan full formed and unit prohibiting 'all compartment use' adjacent nan starring man.

'The accumulation adjunct panicked that she was going to get fired,' said nan source, who claimed connected group information would browbeat anyone who utilized phones successful Chalamet's proximity, 'even erstwhile utilizing them was captious to aspects of their jobs.'

Additionally, Chalamet allegedly 'hated erstwhile nan unit watched rehearsals' and harbored a peculiar loathing for 'stand-in' actors, who helped nan lighting section fine-tune their setup earlier he arrived for a scene.

Chalamet moreover erstwhile seized a 'restroom trailer for himself astatine nan past minute, which caused monolithic lines and agelong waits to entree nan different facilities,' connected a peculiarly engaged time of filming pinch 120 inheritance actors and 150-plus unit members, according to Dailymail.com's source.

'He conscionable didn't attraction astir anyone other isolated from himself.'

When contacted by nan Mail for comment, a root adjacent to accumulation said: 'It is very communal for main actors to get their ain bathrooms.'

The root besides denied nan allegation that Chalamet demanded 'no oculus contact' and that he kicked anyone disconnected set, suggesting that accumulation unit whitethorn person told 'people to not attack nan actors while they are rehearsing aliases filming connected set'.

The root did not contradict that amateur photography was prohibited and insisted that is 'standard practice', adding that 'if [a unit member] takes a image of nan star eclipse, that's not professional, and accumulation would astir apt extremity you.' 

What's more, nan allegations did not extremity pinch Chalamet: wide nan 'hostile activity environment' was said to beryllium rife pinch 'cruelty' and 'frat-boy behavior' —allegedly fostered by nan film's head James Mangold.

Mangold is simply a Hollywood seasoned known for 'Girl Interrupted' (1998) 'Walk nan Line' (2005) and astir precocious 'Ford v. Ferrari' (2019).

'He mostly ran 1 of nan slightest master and astir toxic sets I've ever been on,' said different crewmember. 'It was fraught pinch disparaging comments on nan lines of 'this feline f****** sucks.'

The maltreatment allegedly turned beingness erstwhile Mangold pushed a accumulation assistant. Despite galore reported complaints, he allegedly faced nary consequences for his behavior.

'Within his soul circle, [Mangold] openly mocked nan complaints against him for illustration a frat boy, saying, 'Oh we person to beryllium careful, aliases personification will telephone HR connected america again!' nan Mail was told.

The root said Mangold's behaviour 'slightly' improved aft he was reprimanded by workplace representatives, but nan change, 'only lasted a fewer week'.

The Mail reached retired to Mangold's representatives but did not person a response. 

Searchlight Pictures - nan film's accumulation institution - issued a connection claiming, 'These allegations are mostly inaccurate and overstated. However, fostering a respectful and master situation connected group is thing we return very seriously.'

Searchlight acknowledged that 'some interactions […] took spot early connected set,' and 'issues raised' were 'immediately assessed and addressed.'

Chalamet was nan only personification connected group immune to Mangold's alleged abuse.

'The head worshipped nan crushed that Timothee walked connected because it's his prima powerfulness that bankrolled nan film,' 1 insider said.

'On nan past time of shooting, Mangold gave a reside each astir Timmy, and really inspired and moved nan unit was by his performance' and 'didn't convey immoderate crewmembers, conscionable Timmy.'

However, nan root said, nan remainder of nan formed sewage on very good pinch nan crew.

Starlet Elle Fanning, who played Dylan's emotion interest, 'was universally liked,' arsenic were Hollywood seasoned of 'Fight Club' fame Edward Norton (played people fable Pete Seeger) and Monica Barbaro, who precocious stared successful Tom Cruise's sequel, 'Top Gun: Maverick (Barbaro played singer/songwriter Joan Baez).

However, nan Mail's sources conceded that Chalamet must person felt an tremendous magnitude of unit taking connected nan domiciled of specified a fabled people leader – particularly since he sang and played guitar connected each nan tracks.

Dylan, who is notoriously brusque and prickly himself, serves arsenic an executive shaper of nan film, which retraces his profession – from presence successful New York City arsenic an chartless 19-year-old to nan heights of his superstardom.

'There's a batch of unit to get it right. Bob Dylan fans are insane and will tear him isolated if he gets it wrong,' nan insider said.

Raising nan stakes moreover higher, Chalamet's capacity successful 'Wonka' – a philharmonic imagination movie reimaging nan 1964 caller Charlie and nan Chocolate Factory – was universally panned by critics.

New York Magazine declared that he was 'the worst portion of Wonka.' Rolling Stone wrote that Chalamet 'bit disconnected much than he could chew.'

That was a uncommon but stinging portion of disapproval for a young man whose prima has only risen astir unimpeded for astir a decade.

He first rocketed to fame staring successful nan 2017 coming-of-age romanticist drama, 'Call Me by Your Name.' He became 1 of nan youngest performers ever to person an Oscar information for Best Actor.

With zero machismo, a beanpole physique, pixie-like features and puppy canine eyes, he defies nan accepted Hollywood hunk image embodied by actors specified arsenic Channing Tatum and Chris Hemsworth.

Chalamet has quickly go a Gen-Z icon of a delicate 'softboy' - a derogatory word for an effeminate, moreover weak, man.

A female professional for nan news intermezo mag Vulture wrote that Chalamet represented 'cultural progress,' and a societal improvement that yet gave women support to 'thirst aft a feminine, twink icon whose bosom collapsed conscionable for illustration ours.'

I-D Magazine praised him arsenic 'the cleanable heartthrob for 2018' for introducing a caller benignant of masculinity.

The craze was deemed 'Chalamania.'

Since 'Call Me by Your Name,' Chalamet has starred successful Greta Gerwig's 'Ladybird' (2017) and 'Little Women' (2019) and landed a domiciled successful Wes Anderson's drama 'The French Dispatch' (2021).

But nan blooming talent cemented his position arsenic a franchise superstar starring successful 2 eager films based connected nan epic subject fabrication bid 'Dune,' which has raked successful much than $1.1 cardinal worldwide.

Perhaps playing nan blunt and abrasive people vocalist is nan cleanable adjacent enactment for Chalamet.

Dylan's early fans famously booed and turned their backs connected him erstwhile he ditched his acoustic guitar for an amplified Fender Stratocaster astatine a capacity astatine nan Newport Folk Festival successful 1965.

Could this beryllium nan infinitesimal that Chalamet goes electric?