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After his ID interview with Harry Styles, Rachael Sigee is in full nineties-crush mode. Step aside, her dignity By Rachael Sigee
My first celebrity crush was Marti Pellow from Wet Wet Wet. I wanted to marry him. I used to get crushes on everyone. I had the David Beckham, the Jack Ryder, the Will Smith. You know, the hottie trinity of 1999. But my crushes have invariably let me down. Justin Timberlake threw Janet Jackson under the bus and, unforgivably, made Man Of The Woods. Ryan Phillippe cheated on Reese Witherspoon. Nick Carter is facing a rape allegation (he denies it). Johnny Depp is fully the worst. Ugh, it had really taken the fun out of fancying people. Until Timothée Chalamet, who makes me feel like I did when I first saw Leonardo DiCaprio in Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet. It’s the Call Me By Your Name Chalamet that is supposed to be the one but, for me, it’s all about Kyle in Lady Bird saying “hella tight” and nailing the boy who is trying way too hard. Watching that, 15-year-old me is dying. https://www.the-pool.com/news-views/opinion/2018/44/timothee-chalamet-harry-styles-id-interview-teenage-crushes
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My best friend has a theory about why the likes of Chalamet are attractive to women in their thirties; that it’s the same kind of crush we might have had in our early teens. The guy looks like we tore him out of Smash Hits magazine and the effect on us is physical – uncontrollable giggling and tummy butterflies. Girlish features, floppy hair, cheekbones for days but – crucially – no threat. It’s the reason why teenage girls so often choose the boyband member who turns out to be gay. These are the types of men we felt safe fancying when our hormones were wildly out of control and society had told us to repress our sexuality or else become a teen mum. And, yesterday, in bringing together Chalamet with another perfectly preserved teen crush and fellow floral suit wearer, Harry Styles, i-D
magazine did the world a great service. Devastatingly, the interview between them took place over the phone, so there is a distinct lack of editorial imagery featuring the two of them, but the content is pure loveliness.
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I want the whole Charli XCX video for Boys, but with just these two
When is the last time that a hot young Hollywood hunk admitted that, as humans, “we need to feel a lot of things”? Not since Mean Girls and the girl who didn’t even go there declared “I just have a lot of feelings” have I felt so seen. I was content for my Chalamet crush to stay in bedroom-wall poster form, but if he’s going to start doing things like admitting his go-to karaoke song is Heart-Shaped Box – as if the angst-filled teen in me needed more from him – then I want to hear more. Usually, my reaction to celebrities interviewing other celebrities is similar to clicking through someone’s engagement photoshoot on Facebook: I’ll do it, but I’m disgusted in both them and myself. But we are fickle beings, aren’t we? And when it comes to the Timothée Chalamet X Harry Styles collab for i-D, suddenly I want to demand a longer https://www.the-pool.com/news-views/opinion/2018/44/timothee-chalamet-harry-styles-id-interview-teenage-crushes
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version of the interview where they cover what they missed out this time around. Like how they deal, when their Gucci loafers give them blisters and what their favourite hand cream is and what they use as a bookmark. Two young men with enormous fan bases talking about keeping journals, what masculinity means to them and referencing David Bowie is just a Good Thing. Now, we know that Chalamet wants people to “be whatever you want to be”. “There isn’t a specific notion, or jean size, or muscle shirt, or affectation, or eyebrow raise, or dissolution, or drug use that you have to take part in to be masculine,” he says. “It’s exciting. It’s a brave new world.” We know that Styles thinks, “there’s so much masculinity in being vulnerable and allowing yourself to be feminine”, and that Chalamet wishes Cardi B and Nicki Minaj never got into that fight. Us too, Timmy, us too. Most importantly, we now know that Harry Styles thinks about the peach scene from CMBYN, and that is just a good piece of general knowledge that I am pleased to be party to. When the story broke yesterday, The Pool’s own Rowan Ellis said immediately: “Ah, Timothée Chalamet and Harry Styles… my two favourite lesbians.” And, yes, it’s a little confusing; somehow being attracted to these two beautiful, sweet men makes me feel less straight. But sexuality is a spectrum, gender is fluid and I identify as a person who goes a bit funny over Timothée Chalamet. I’m living my truth and I want the whole Charli XCX video for Boys, but with just these two. Oh, and the interview was all in aid of promoting Chalamet’s new film, Beautiful Boy – I feel like I should mention it, because his PRs deserve every click they get – in which he stars with Steve Carell, who, incidentally, represents the flipside of my crush coin. But that’s another article.
@littlewondering
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Photo: Mario Sorrenti for i-D magazine
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