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Timothée Chalamet’s love affair with all things British took a surprising turn on Thursday after the actor revealed an unlikely fondness for Grimsby.
The unassuming Lincolnshire port town appeared to be the object of Chalamet’s affections as he reeled off his favourite aspects of British culture during an interview with Scott Mills on BBC Radio 2.
In London to promote his new film Marty Supreme, the American actor, 29, admitted he’d fallen in love with the ‘cute towns’ he’d stumbled upon while travelling through the English Cotswolds.
He said: ‘You drive through the British countryside, it’s amazing. The air is so fresh here.
‘You know, I’ll go to sleep watching little house tours of the Cotswolds – that’s not even a joke, man. That’s like my comfort, watching house tours of the Cotswolds, or little 4K walking videos.
‘There’s all sorts of little, cute towns, and you put on your boots and its raining. Sunday roasts… it just sounds awesome.’
Timothée Chalamet’s love affair with all things British took a surprising turn on Thursday after the actor revealed an unlikely fondness for Grimsby during an interview with Scott Mills
But he was three hours north of the Cotswolds, which encompasses 787 square miles of picturesque countryside across south and south west England, when Mills admitted the area’s local towns had ‘cute little place names, like Chipping Norton.’
‘Grimsby,’ added Chalamet, prompting bemusement from the DJ, his listeners and social media followers, before admitting he’d never visited the Lincolnshire town.
Commenting on Instagram after the watching the interview, one perplexed fan wrote: ‘Someone needs to tell him Grimsby isn’t the Costwolds.’
A second joked: ‘As someone born in Grimsby, let me tell you it’s just like the Cotswolds.’
While a third quipped: ‘If he goes to Grimsby, he’ll be in for shock.’
The gaffe came little more than a day after Chalamet admitted an equally unexpected appreciation for former Britain’s Got Talent contestant Susan Boyle.
‘She dreamt big. She dreamt bigger than all of us,’ he told BBC News.
‘Who wasn’t moved by that [story]? I remember that like it was yesterday. That was like the advent of YouTube, you know?’
The American actor admitted he’d fallen in love with the ‘cute towns’ he’d stumbled upon while travelling through the English Cotswolds
The Cotswolds is renowned for its lush countryside and quaint British villages, including picturesque Bilbury in Gloucestershire (pictured)
But he was three hours north of the the area, which encompasses 787 square miles of countryside across south and south west England, while naming Grimsby (pictured)
The two-time Oscar nominated actor plays Marty Mauser in his new film, loosely based on the life and times of legendary 1940s table tennis champion Marty Reisman.
Speaking with Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday evening, Chalamet admitted he’d spent close to a decade mastering the sport.
He said: ‘This was about a six to seven year training process. I met with [director] Josh Safdie in 2018 about this film.
‘Now, I don’t mean day in and day out, it’s more like on and off… It was a lot of training. It started during covid and ping pong is a great thing.’
He added: ‘The gift of my life, the gratitude exercise. I live every morning to go “Wow. For some reason I’m getting the opportunity to work”, why not go 10,000% hard.’
‘There’s all sorts of little, cute towns, and you put on your boots and its raining. Sunday roasts… it just sounds awesome,’ he told Scott Mills on Thursday
