Timothée Chalamet has spoken about the viral popcorn bucket’s from last year’s blockbuster Dune: Part Two, revealing that he keeps one under his bed.
In an interview posted by social media account triple_j, the promotional popcorn bucket – featuring a lid shaped like a sandworm – was shown to Chalamet during promotion for his film, Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown.
Co-star Elle Fanning said to Chalamet: “You told me you have one of those, right?”, to which he replied: “Yeah, I keep mine under my bed”, adding that: “They’re going to blur that out when you pull that up, that’s like an explicit thing”, jokingly alluding to online comments that the popcorn bucket looked rude.
The interview ended with a question about what a promotional popcorn bucket would look like for A Complete Unknown. “It’d be the guitar hole” the actor replied with a grin.
Last year, the Dune: Part Two promotional popcorn bucket drew a wide range of reactions online, from jokes to outright disgust. While promotional popcorn buckets are nothing new, the reaction to this one meant that other films released similar tie-ins, including a suggestive design for Deadpool & Wolverine.
A Complete Unknown is in UK cinemas now, and is in the running for many awards this Oscar season.
In NME’s four-star review for the film, Alex Flood wrote: “so many of the performances in A Complete Unknown fizz with this kind of tense, gripping energy”, before adding “if you’re a Bob newbie, you’ll leave the cinema ready to dive into his back catalogue”.
Chalamet is enjoying an eventful promotional tour for the movie, having been fined for arriving at the London premiere riding a Lime bike. The film received a warm reception from one of Dylan’s contemporaries, Neil Young, who said that he “loved” watching it.
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