Timothée Chalamet is without doubt one of the largest actors round proper now after starring in hit motion pictures like Dune and Wonka. However earlier than that, he was simply an adolescent on YouTube attempting to get massive by modding and portray Xbox 360 controllers. And the director behind his upcoming movie, Marty Supreme, needed the 29-year-old actor to faucet into that a part of his life whereas filming.
Arriving in theaters nationwide on Christmas, Marty Supreme stars Chalamet as Marty Mauser, a younger and scrappy wannabe desk tennis professional who works laborious, offers with loads of naysayers, and pushes by means of numerous obstacles on his mission to show his ardour right into a profession. To assist Chalamet correctly painting Mauser, who’s loosely based mostly on an actual desk tennis professional, Marty Supreme director and co-writer Josh Safdie informed the younger actor to recollect his days making YouTube movies about gamepads.
“[Director] Josh [Safdie] wanted me to tap into, you know, he was always talking about, like, I modded controllers on YouTube growing up,” Chalamet told the BBC in a recent interview. “He’s like that part of you. He’s like the hustler part of you. The swaggerful part of you.”
And yeah, in case that is information to you: Chalamet used to have a small YouTube channel back in 2010 the place he uploaded a few short videos of himself showing off modded and customized Xbox 360 controllers. The channel was aptly titled ModdedController360, and in 2021, Chalamet admitted to operating the channel, which has since sadly been faraway from YouTube. Fortunately, folks have saved a few of the movies, like this one in every of Chalamet, who by no means reveals his face, exhibiting off a “sexy” crimson tiger paint job.
Right here’s what Chalamet needed to say concerning the channel back in 2021, when he revealed he was the one behind it: “I had a YouTube channel people found. It’s YouTube dot com back-slash ‘ModdedController360.’ And I used to paint-mod controllers, I did three, and I spray-painted them and…opened them up, and I would charge people $10.”
In keeping with the actor, it didn’t take off, although he made $30 off three shoppers. When you personal a type of controllers, I wager it’s price much more than $10 in 2025.
