And so, without warning we’re introduced to this quiet, somewhat on-edge teenager who - as Rachel is informed by the principal - takes medication for what’s only described as a behavioral disorder. He’d been in Interstellar and on Homeland, but when he played Billy, most viewers didn’t associate the young actor with any previous roles. It helped at the time, of course, that he was largely an unknown quantity. Miss Stevens is largely about Rachel coming to terms with her thus-far-disappointing life, and while Rabe is quite good in the film, it’s Chalamet who gives the story its jolt. The bulk of the film involves her chaperoning three of her students - try-hard Margot (Lili Reinhart), out-and-proud Sam (Anthony Quintal) and Chalamet’s Billy - for this weekend acting showcase.
Rachel is unhappy: Her personal life seems nonexistent, and there are indications that she pursued acting when she was younger, a dream that didn’t work out. The directorial debut of Julia Hart - who co-wrote the script with her husband, producer Jordan Horowitz - Miss Stevens tells the story of Rachel (Lily Rabe), who’s pushing 30 and working as a high-school English teacher. And yet, the film is full of hints of the Chalamet to come - not to mention a nice reminder of why people got so excited about him in the first place. He was only 20 when the film premiered at South by Southwest, and he looks even younger. Available on Hulu and elsewhere, this low-budget indie made very little money, but beyond being really touching, Miss Stevens allows you a chance to see Chalamet before he was a celebrity sensation. And if you’re only familiar with the films he’s done during his Internet Boyfriend era, you really should seek out Miss Stevens. His surface is often placid, but we can pick up on the torment underneath.
Sometimes he tends toward the mopey, but in his best work, he’s a strikingly present actor, imbuing his characters with deep feeling and quiet intensity. (Put it this way: You know you’ve captured the zeitgeist when there’s a nasty rumor going around that you gave half of New York University chlamydia.) (He’s also somebody named Yule in Don’t Look Up, easily giving the best performance in that woeful film.) And along the way, he’s become an Internet Boyfriend, with half of the web fascinated/charmed by him, while the other half thinks he’s overexposed and overrated. Since then, he’s played Saoirse Ronan’s crush in Lady Bird, a drug addict in Beautiful Boy, a brooding Henry V in The King, a moony revolutionary in The French Dispatch and Paul Atreides in the new Dune. In the last five years, Chalamet has been seemingly everywhere, coming to the world’s attention thanks to 2017’s Call Me by Your Name, which earned him an Oscar nomination.
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