LeBron James is probably not the athletic phenomenon he once was, having graduated from 'raw force' to a more 'measured destruction' type of player, as skilled a playmaker as he has always been as a scorer. This, as James himself likes to say, is also a result of him being a high-IQ, thinking player who is always ready to pass the ball to his teammates when they have a better shot.
And while he may not be the out-of-control freak he once was, especially early in his career, actor Timothée Chalamet sees similarities between himself and the L.A. superstar. Speaking to James on Mind the Game, Chalamet compared his acting career to the two players' sports careers.
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"I feel like in my career I felt like Brandon Roy, you know, it was unheard of and sometimes I felt like LeBron was picked on, and I feel in that duality. It oscillates. I felt like I had that raw talent. I think the first roles I played that were good like 'Call Me By Her Name' or 'Beautiful Boy' were all raw talent. There was no real process to it. But it was just kind of a mess. And I think it took a few years and the onslaught of fame and attention and intensity," he said.
Chalamet effectively claimed that although he also felt like a talented actor, especially looking at his earlier work, it was only later that he developed a 'real process'. Chalamet said that early in his career, he felt like an untapped talent like Brandon Roy.
"I can look at LeBron and his career. The first few years in Cleveland and I had no process or way to deal with it. 'I feel like 'A Complete Unknown' and 'Marty Supreme.' It's the first time I really had a process and a method, I don't want to say an artistic process. I don't want to ignore my other work, but this is the first time I've really worked on a large scale,'' he said.
Of course, while his early work in films like Beautiful Boy was also influential and earned him praise, it was only later that Chalamet really took off working. He also compared the situation to James's early days in Cleveland, where he was a scoring phenomenon and an athletic monster, rather than the playmaker-scorer hybrid he eventually developed into.
Although the comparison may not be the most straightforward, one can definitely see where Chalamet is coming from, and how much respect he has for James.
