By A black and white still of Timothée Chalamet, moustachioed and angsty as "student revolutionary" Zeffirelli, is all the proof we need to conclude that the actor will definitely doing his best Che Guevara impersonation in Wes Anderson's forthcoming film, The French Dispatch.
Chalamet's new moustache has been cause for debate at the office of this very magazine: is it a desperate attempt at pubic hair reminiscent of someone in year eight, or is he your achingly cool French exchange nemesis, who huffed on a packed of Gauloises with the je ne sais quoi of a Françoise Sagan character?
It turns out that his wispy friend was all in the name of playing a revolutionary in Wes Anderson's new film, The French Dispatch. Zeffirelli is a rebel with the same tousled locks and thirst for freedom as a certain Argentine freedom fighter, a man whose poster appeared on the bedroom walls of everyone in your student Marxist society.
The French Dispatch is a "love letter to journalism", which follows three stories from the eponymous American magazine, one of which features Zeffirelli and his co-revolutionary Juliette being profiled by Frances McDormand's character, Lucinda Krementz.
"The kids did this," says Krementz in the trailer. "Obliterated a thousand years of Republican authority in less than a fortnight. What do they want? Freedom, full stop." (Che-llo, does this sound familiar?)
Chalamet doesn't appear to be wearing Guevara's signature beret, but instead sports a hair turban while soaking in the tub. Elsewhere his outfits conjure a more romantic idea of a revolutionary, wearing a cosy herringbone jacket and shirt with a cigarillo dangling from his mouth.
Meanwhile Owen Wilson's character Herbsaint Salzerac, a writer and staff-member of the French Dispatch, is wearing a very familiar looking black beret in the stills and trailer.
Is The French Dispatch Guevara's beret origin story? (That does sound extremely Wes Anderson to be honest) Are we about to learn that Guevara was in fact a French revolutionary – one with a thing for gazing wistfully in front of French castles – before he moved onto Cuba? Will we stop at nothing to make Timo-Che Guevara a thing?
Ok, what about Timothée Che-lamet?
