In Timothée Chalamet's humble opinion, social media is contributing to "societal collapse"
The Bones And All actor spoke about the current social media landscape in a press conference at the 2022 Venice Film Festival
Dune: Part Two might not come out for a while, but Timothée Chalamet is already stepping back into the role of the prophetic Paul Atreides with his new look into the social media-ruined future.
During a press conference at the 2022 Venice Film Festival, the Bones And All star criticized the modern state of social media and its consequences on young people. In the upcoming film, Chalamet plays one-half of a young cannibal couple during 1980s America in his second collaboration with director Luca Guadagnino since 2017's Call Me By Your Name.
“To be young now, and to be young whenever—I can only speak for my generation—is to be intensely judged,” said Chalamet, via Variety. “I can’t imagine what it is to grow up with the onslaught of social media, and it was a relief to play characters who are wrestling with an internal dilemma absent the ability to go on Reddit, or Twitter, Instagram or TikTok and figure out where they fit in.”