A Eulogy For Timothée Chalamet’s Hair
We are gathered here today for a somber occasion. 2025 has been a year marked with plenty of tragedy and hardship, but none that has hit me quite as personally as this: Timothée Chalamet has shaved his head. I repeat, Timothée Chalamet has shaved his head.
The sudden change of aesthetic has come with the beginning of Timothée’s award season campaign around his newest film, Marty Supreme, which premiered this week at the New York Film Festival. The performance has already been called Chalamet’s career best—which is a shame, since this is his hair’s career worst.
Chalamet debuted the look on Instagram Live:
While certainly Chalamet is free to do whatever he wishes with his personal aesthetic, it’s still a shame—for every luscious lock lost, another angel has had its wings ripped away. Somewhere, Club Chalamet’s heart has broken into a million pieces. And you know what? So has mine.
So, how do we move forward from here? I think it’s important to remember that Timothée’s famous bedhead chic looks have been forever preserved in his past work, so if you’re still reeling from the big reveal, check out these films, listed in order of how great his hair looked:
Dune
If I’m being so honest here, Dune is not really my genre. Do you know what is my genre, though? Whatever Timothée Chalamet’s hair is doing in this movie. Maybe it’s the wind, maybe it’s the dirt, maybe it’s the massive movie budget, but this is really Timothée’s magnum opus (again, just to be clear, I am not talking about the acting, I am talking about the hair). Hopefully future Dune installments will bring this version of him back to us and we can forget this nightmare ever happened. Please, long-haired Timothée, the kids miss you.
Lady Bird
I miss late 2010s dirtbag indie darling Timothée Chalamet in a way that should probably be studied, but this is not the time to talk about my own neuroses. Instead, we ought to give a round of applause to the great Greta Gerwig for knowing her audience here and recognizing that in Timothée’s Ladybird character, we would all see that teenage boy we were kind of obsessed with in high school, but with significantly better hair. Who cares if he refused to own a cell phone! I could fix him!
Little Women
Honestly, Timothée Chalamet deserved an Oscar just for the way his hair looked during the windblown scene where he confessed his love to Saoirse Ronan’s Jo March. It was easy to understand why Amy would have loved him for so long, because it’s hard to imagine any man having hair more beautiful than his, given the time period. Even today, with the plethora of haircare products at our disposal, few men have been able to achieve such a stunning look.
Beautiful Boy
They really knew what they were doing when they named this movie. I don’t care if it’s based off a book—one look at Timothée Chalamet, with his luscious locks, and the deal was sealed. Timothée’s hair definitely goes through some slight rough patches in this film (as its wont to do when you’re struggling with some bigger life issues, like addiction and houselessness), but all in all, it still really takes center stage in this movie. A beautiful boy indeed.
Call My By Your Name
This was really the film that made Timothée Chalamet a household name, and who can be surprised? His acting ability seemed well beyond his years in the industry, not to mention it was our first introduction to that mop of curls. While it’s a little shorter here than in some of the other movies mentioned (had to take some points off for that one, unfortunately), it’s still a great reminder of what was—and hopefully what will be once more.
