Timothée Chalamet has the web’s approval so as to add “soccer analyst” to his résumé now.
The Oscar-nominated actor served as a visitor picker on ESPN‘s Faculty GameDay on Saturday forward of the SEC championship sport in Atlanta, the place he got here ready and absolutely researched to talk. He held his personal amongst host Rece Davis and analysts Lee Corso, Kirk Herbstreit, Nick Saban, Desmond Howard and Pat McAfee.
The A Full Unknown star picked his guesses for winners throughout his look, beginning with Jackson State College competing in opposition to Southern College for the Southwestern Athletic Convention championship. “Eight wins in a row, 11 all-conference gamers,” Chalamet stated of Jackson State, which ended up profitable. “This needs to be a cushty, straightforward win for them.”
Up subsequent, he appropriately predicted the Ohio College Bobcats would beat the Miami College Redhawks, additionally from Ohio, and that Arizona State would beat Iowa State. He’s additionally guessing that on Saturday night time, Southern Methodist will win the ACC title over Clemson College; the College of Oregon will beat Penn State; and the College of Texas will declare victory over the College of Georgia.
Along with his remaining guess for the SEC champ between Texas and Georgia, Chalamet famous he has to go together with his “film dad,” Matthew McConaughey, who’s a giant fan of the Texas Longhorns. “I’m sorry to everyone right here,” the Dune star joked to the group in Georgia. (McConaughey portrayed Chalamet’s father in Interstellar.)
The web was abuzz with the actor’s soccer data, with quite a few followers taking to social media to share their reactions to his visitor picker gig.
“Timothee Chalamet, I owe you an apology — I wasn’t accustomed to your sport,” one person posted on X (previously Twitter).
One other one wrote, “Timothee Chalamet being an actual deal fan, being a SMU fan, and figuring out about all these groups was so loopy to me. I assumed simply invited trigger well-known, however he was a legit nice visitor picker on Faculty Gameday.”
“Did NOT have Timothee Chalamet breaking down school soccer in depth on my 2024 bingo card,” a third person stated. “Finest Gameday visitor picker this season.”
One other person wrote, “So principally, Timothée Chalamet has carried out extra school soccer analysis for this one episode of “Faculty Gameday” than Pat McAfee has carried out his whole time on the present.”