-- Shares Facebook Twitter Reddit Email “I get catcalled, ‘Timmy! Timmy! Timmy!’ I respond to it. I call to it. This is fate.
” That’s what 18-year-old Dempsey Bobbitt tells us as we’re power walking alongside a hoard of hormonal Timothée Chalamet fans to Mercer Playground, where a look-alike competition for the actor is underway. Bobbitt is one of several curly-haired, high-cheekboned Chalamet wannabees hoping to be crowned Chalamet’s doppelgänger and take home a $50 cash prize. He’s pretty serious about winning, considering that he’s dressed as Willy Wonka , who Chalamet plays in the 2023 eponymous film “Wonka.
” Bobbitt also traveled to the Big Apple from Pennsylvania (“I go to school in Pennsylvania,” he says). Following the initial brouhaha of Halloween weekend (dubbed “Halloweekend”), New York City is bustling Sunday afternoon as crowds of Gen-Z spectators trek to Washington Square Park to attend the event. The contest, organized by 23-year-old YouTuber Anthony “Gilbert” Po (a.
k.a. AnthPo), went viral across social media in September after fliers for the event were seen scattered across Lower Manhattan.
An online invite, made on Partiful, boasted nearly 3,000 RSVPs. A Timothée Chalamet look-alike is presented at the competition (Photo by Joy Saha) Underneath the Washington Square Arch, the crowd is multiplying by the minute and the crispness of the October air tempers the surrounding adrenaline. It’s fitting that a park known for .
