Timothee Chalamet Is a Backward Baseball Cap-Wearing Dirtbag In 'Don't Look Up'

Timothée Chalamet‘s usual aesthetic is best described, I think, as “delicate ghost boy.” Or, perhaps, “sickly fancy lad.” Or maybe even “wispy fragile prince.” It is an aesthetic well-suited to Chalamet’s most famous roles as polite young men in Call Me By Your Name, Little Women, and Dune.

Enter writer/director Adam McKay. McKay decided to take Chalamet’s sensitive little boy aesthetic, and stuff it into a backward camo trucker hat. Because in the new comedy Don’t Look Up—which is now streaming on Netflix—Chalamet doesn’t play a polite young man at all. He plays long-haired, ratty dirtbag.

Chalamet doesn’t show up in Don’t Look Up until nearly 90 minutes into the film. But when he does, the reveal is worth it. Here’s how it goes down: Jennifer Lawrence’s character, an astronomy grad student named Kate, has done everything in her power to inform the public that a giant asteroid is heading toward earth and will destroy life as we know it. She’s been mocked, meme’d, and threatened, and now, on top of everything, the government has forcefully silenced her. Defeated, Kate returns to her childhood hometown in rural Michigan and gives up.

Kate gets a job at a grocery store, and, wouldn’t you know it, Timothée Chalamet and his terrible friends show up at that very grocery to steal some alcohol. Chalamet’s character, whose name is, hilariously, “Yule,” has unkempt, greasy hair past his shoulders. He covers said hair with a backward camo baseball cap. He wears a green army jacket, and, though it’s not explicitly stated, I’m willing to bet he and his family own multiple firearms. When he recognizes Kate from her disastrous talk show appearance, he whips out his phone to film her on FaceTime with his fellow dirtbag buddies. In other words, he sucks.

But when Kate doesn’t care in the least that Yule and his friends are stealing from the store, Yule is intrigued. They end up hooking up. From Kate’s perspective, the world is ending, so like, why the hell not? It turns out, Yule has some interesting layers. He believes in God, but he’s embarrassed about that fact. When the end of days is nearing, he asks permission to be vulnerable in Leonardo DiCaprio’s car. He ends up being a bit more emotionally intelligent than your average f-ckboy; more like the Timothée Chalamet we know and love.

It should be said, of course, that Lady Bird Chalamet walked so that Don’t Look Up Chalamet could run. Before any of us knew Chalamet as a household name, Greta Gerwig saw his dirtbag potential. She made him the kind of cryptic, too-cool-for-school artsy teenager that lies to girls about whether or not he’s a virgin. McKay merely took that foundation—Kyle who hangs out in parking lots and believes the government is controlling people with cell phones—and built upon it. We can only imagine where the saga of dirtbag Chalamet might take us next.

Watch Don't Look Up on Netflix