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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.

In this bit11 moments
  • 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.
Mentioned here

Timothée ChalametBrian DennehyBurt ReynoldsLittle WomenTom HollandDustin HoffmanKilling of a Sacred DeerLady BirdBob DylanColin Farrell

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