rant · moment 16 of 22
Timothy Chalamet, Brian Dennehy, and the Death of Masculinity in Hollywood
from #184 - Skid Ray | The Tim Dillon Show · #184
10 min
Tim contrasts old-school masculine sex symbols like Brian Dennehy and Burt Reynolds with the effeminate, genderless appeal of Timothy Chalamet, mocking his acting and imagining him getting beaten up, then extends into a riff rewriting Little Women with a fat bearded Ray.
- Brian Dennehy exemplified actual masculinity—a man with a gut who drank beer and protected people, which actually turned women on.
- Modern male celebrities considered attractive are effeminate; Timothy Chalamet is described as a feather with no sexuality or existence.
- Tim jokes that he should have been cast in Call Me By Your Name because nobody would believe Chalamet would travel to Italy.
- The shift from Burt Reynolds and actual masculine men to Timothy Chalamet represents a catastrophic decline in Hollywood's male archetypes.
- Chalamet and similar genderless actors look like perpetually ill children, and Hollywood is reaching an end-time singularity where adults have become children.
- Tim wonders where roles are for actors with skin problems and argues that Timothy Chalamet is simply a bad actor.
- Tim describes watching Little Women and his experience bumping into one of the actresses while getting wine at the theater.
- Men aren't interested in watching Little Women because it's a children's book about middle-class white women written during the Civil War.
- Tim expresses a desire to see Timothy Chalamet get beaten up by Lex Fridman, fantasizing about their hypothetical fight.
- Tim launches into an extended bit imagining himself as a fat bearded man in a remake of Little Women courting the lead actress.
- Tim's fantasy scene continues with his character reminiscing about the mother's cooking and declaring his love for tender meat and freeing slaves.
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