Actor Timothée Chalamet crashed his ain lookalike contention Sunday, concisely mingling with “Wonka” and “Dune” clad doppelgängers and immoderate fans successful a Manhattan parkland aft constabulary broke up the archetypal signifier of the un-permitted gathering elsewhere.
The existent Chalamet was discernable by the accompanying bodyguards, thing the different contestants didn’t have. He posed for photos arsenic it dawned connected the ogling assemblage of squealing fans that the existent Chalamet was so lasting up successful their midst. He is successful municipality filming the sports play “Marty Supreme.”
Police had unopen down the lawsuit successful Washington Square Park, forcing participants to find a caller location adjacent conscionable arsenic the reddish carpet strut commenced. At slightest 1 idiosyncratic was cuffed and hauled away; charges were pending Sunday evening, according to an NYPD spokesperson. Police besides fined organizers $500 for holding an “unpermitted costume contest.”
“It started disconnected arsenic a silly gag and present it’s turned pandemonium,” said Paige Nguyen, 1 of the organizers.
Nguyen is simply a shaper for YouTube property Anthony Po, who dreamed up and staged the informal extravaganza by papering New York City’s Greenwich Village with fliers. Chalamet’s impromptu quality after the constabulary play had cleared was conscionable icing connected the curly-locked cake.
“Willy Wonka” wannabee Miles Mitchell, a 21-year-old from Staten Island, was declared the winner, receiving a Publisher’s Clearing House-sized, $50 cheque made retired to “Best Tim.”
With News Wire Services