Timothée Chalamet Vetoed Chloe Fineman’s ‘Babygirl’-Inspired Milk Scene on ‘SNL’
Chloe Fineman isn’t the first white woman who was crushed to learn that Timothée Chalamet doesn’t want to be her babygirl.
Back on January 25th, the movie superstar Chalamet hosted Saturday Night Live and performed as that weekend’s musical guest in a rare double-whammy that his publicity team hopes will help to propel him to Oscar gold come March 2nd. Given the show’s massive platform, impressive history and enduring cultural cachet, A-listers using SNL to boost their brand ahead of awards season is a long-standing tradition at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, and SNL don Lorne Michaels expects the show’s cast and writing staff to bring their A-game every time a star like Chalamet gives the show an opportunity to advance his Oscars campaign.
Well, that’s exactly what Fineman did when it came time for the SNL team to pitch Chalamet on his sketches for the week. As a cinephile herself, Fineman wanted Chalamet to re-enact a famous scene from a certain Oscars-snubbed film, but as she revealed on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, Chalamet refused to perform a sketch satirizing the Nicole Kidman-starred erotic thriller Babygirl.
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Still, Fineman shouldn’t take the rejection too hard — it’s no use crying over spilled milk.
Fineman, whose arsenal of impressions includes a pretty good Paul Atreides, told Cohen that she might have been a little too excited about Chalamet making a reappearance on SNL barely a year after his last hosting gig. “I pitched a lot of us touching,” Fineman said of that first meeting with the week’s host. “Or like Babygirl and he’s giving me milk.”
The Babygirl scene to which Fineman referred features Kidman, playing a high-strung CEO engaged in some sexually charged power playing with a young male intern, chugging a glass of milk after Harris Dickinson sent it to her table and before the boy-toy whispered to her, “Good girl.”
“He wasn’t really having that milk-Babygirl stuff,” Fineman admitted.
Additionally, Fineman revealed that Chalamet’s latest appearance on SNL caused her to do some self-reflection, saying of her decision not to impersonate the Call Me By Your Name star on the January 25th show, “I think that now we know each other, it’s sort of embarrassing,” explaining, “I feel like this weird older woman, being like, ‘Hey little boy, can I put your sweatpants on?’ ‘Cause I’ve worn his — sometimes I’ll wear his real clothes doing it, which was really fun.”
If anything, that’s even more reason to do a Babygirl bit.
