Timothée Chalamet Reveals the Last Text He Got from Leonardo DiCaprio: ‘He Fried Me Today’

Timothée Chalamet says Leonardo DiCaprio texted him about his recent hair change.

The Marty Supreme actor, 29, stars in Lucid Motors’ new ad for electric sedan Lucid Air Sapphire, which features the brand’s global ambassador in a high-speed interview with New York Knicks players Josh Hart and Jalen Brunson.

Asked for the greatest person to get a text message from, Chalamet named DiCaprio, 51.

“He fried me today,” revealed the actor. “He said, ‘I heard they shaved your head. Say it ain’t so!’ ”

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Chalamet made headlines when he was spotted out and about seemingly without his signature locks in Saint-Tropez alongside girlfriend Kylie Jenner in July. His buzz cut went public in October as he began promoting the Josh Safdie-directed Marty Supreme.

Going “0 to 60 in 1.89 seconds,” as Lucid’s Hard Launch video ad states, Chalamet rode shotgun on a professional race course, answering questions from a remote Hart, 30, and Brunson, 29.

Chalamet reflected on some of his acting peers, naming Denzel Washington, Christian Bale and Joaquin Phoenix the “GOATs.” Unlike basketball players, he said, “For what I do, I feel like I’m just playing against myself.”

Asked about the difference between being good and great, the Dune star said, “No one’s going to unlock the best version of yourself but you. No one would know how to. Daniel Day-Lewis said to Jeremy Strong, ‘To embark on a role seriously is to be willing to be foolish.’ What I do can be really silly at times.”

Chalamet starred alongside DiCaprio in 2021 film Don’t Look Up. Both actors are generating Oscar buzz in lead film roles this awards season: Chalamet for Marty Supreme and DiCaprio for Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another.

In 2022, Chalamet told British Vogue that DiCaprio once told him the advice “no hard drugs and no superhero movies” when they first met in 2018.

The star had previously shared that he had received the advice from “one of my heroes” in October 2021, but declined to share who told him it. “One of my heroes — I can’t say who or he’d kick my ass — he put his arm around me the first night we met and gave me some advice,” Chalamet told Time in 2021.

Marty Supreme, costarring Gwyneth Paltrow, Tyler, the Creator, Odessa A’zion and more, is in theaters Dec. 25.