Timothee Chalamet Is a Backward Baseball Cap-Wearing Dirtbag In ‘Don’t Look Up’

Timothée Chalamet‘s usual aesthetic is best described, I think, as “delicate ghost boy.” Or, perhaps, “sickly fancy lad.” Or maybe even “wispy fragile prince.” It is an aesthetic well-suited to Chalamet’s most famous roles as polite young men in Call Me By Your Name, Little Women, and Dune.

Enter writer/director Adam McKay. McKay decided to take Chalamet’s sensitive little boy aesthetic, and stuff it into a backward camo trucker hat. Because in the new comedy Don’t Look Up—which is now streaming on Netflix—Chalamet doesn’t play a polite young man at all. He plays long-haired, ratty dirtbag.

Chalamet doesn’t show up in Don’t Look Up until nearly 90 minutes into the film. But when he does, the reveal is worth it. Here’s how it goes down: Jennifer Lawrence’s character, an astronomy grad student named Kate, has done everything in her power to inform the public that a giant asteroid is heading toward earth and will destroy life as we know it. She’s been mocked, meme’d, and threatened, and now, on top of everything, the government has forcefully silenced her. Defeated, Kate returns to her childhood hometown in rural Michigan and gives up.

Kate gets a job at a grocery store, and, wouldn’t you know it, Timothée Chalamet and his terrible friends show up at that very grocery to steal some alcohol. Chalamet’s character, whose name is, hilariously, “Yule,” has unkempt, greasy hair past his shoulders. He covers said hair with a backward camo baseball cap. He wears a green army jacket, and, though it’s not explicitly stated, I’m willing to bet he and his family own multiple firearms. When he recognizes Kate from her disastrous talk show appearance, he whips out his phone to film her on FaceTime with his fellow dirtbag buddies. In other words, he sucks.

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