Lookalike contests were held in Dublin (Paul Mescal), London (Harry Styles), San Francisco (Dev Patel), Chicago (Jeremy Allen White), Brooklyn (Zayn Malik), Oakland (a rare exception to the men – Zendaya) and Austin (where Glen Powell promised the winner a cameo for their parents in his next movie, and his mother was the judge).
Half a head taller than the contestants and with a little moustache, it appeared he’d come as Charlie Chaplin (who famously once lost a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest).
The first was in New York, where hundreds of Timothée Chalamets congregated in Washington Square Park, with police arriving to disperse the crowd and eventually arrest one contestant just as the real Chalamet arrived.
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They were printed in black-and-white, with a little face in a square, and they advertised lookalike contests.
