Timothée Chalamet was told he doesn't have the 'right body' to film a big-budget movie

Times of discover News: Los Angeles-based actor Timothée Chalamet, who made his mark in Hollywood by starring in indie films such as "Lady Bird" and "Beautiful Boy," says an agent once told him to gain weight to get blockbuster roles.

Chalamet then tasted success in Luca Guadagnino's "Call Me by Your Name," for which he won the Academy Award for best actor. He then went on to work on the studio's celebrated "Little Women" and "Dune" franchises.

"If I auditioned for The Maze Runner or Divergent, whatever things came my way at the time, the response I always got was, 'Oh, you don't have the right body.' I had an agent call me and say, 'You get it,'" he said. 'Should weigh in,' basically, not offensively, but you know,' Chalamet told Zane Lowe in an interview.

"I wouldn't say it was weird, but I can relate to some of these things. Bob wanted to be a rock 'n' roll star — Buddy Holly, Little Richard, Elvis Presley — it depends on your point of view. But Rice was into it. He said, '... kind of pop, rock and roll music that, you know, was marketed to kids in the late '50s, I mean a big movie actor,'" Chalamet said.

He said he developed a "very personal style" working on smaller films like "Call Me by Your Name," "Beautiful Boy," "Lady Bird," "Little Women," "Miss Stevens" and "Hot Summer Nights," according to the "Movie" pie.

"They're small budget, but big... I don't know what else it would be like... personal films that started in this theater area. That's where I found my rhythm, my confidence, my flow, whatever you want. Call me." Wants, gets."