Timothée Chalamet Says He Was Fined For Riding E-Bike to Red Carpet
The actor rode a Lime bike to the London premiere of “A Complete Unknown.”
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Timothée Chalamet skipped the limo and rode a Lime bike onto the red carpet for the London premiere of A Complete Unknown, the Bob Dylan biopic starring the 29-year-old as the iconic folk singer. In an interview on Wednesday with the French program Quotidien, the actor revealed he was hit with a fine for £65, or about $79, for the stunt. “It’s horrible, because it was a bit of an advertisement for them,” Chalamet laughed with the hosts in French. The host joked with Chalamet, asking him if the e-bike stunt was related to Dylan Goes Electric—the book the biopic was based on. Both the book and movie feature Dylan’s now-legendary performance at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, where the folk star first performed with electric guitars and rock instrumentation. But Chalamet confirmed that it wasn’t a movie tie-in, just a choice he made due to the busy London streets. “No, there were loads of traffic jams,” Chalamet said.
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