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Jeremy Allen White Lookalike Contest after the Timothée Chalamet Event

Jeremy Allen White Lookalike Contest after the Timothée Chalamet Event

Call everyone Jeremy Allen White lookalikes!

After the huge success of a recent one Timothée Chalamet lookalike contest – where the Wonka actor himself made a surprise appearance! – a similar event for those who resemble White, 33, appears to be happening in the near future.

X (formerly Twitter) user @girlflopping shared one image of a poster on Sunday, October 27, which has since gone viral and is promoting a “Jeremy Allen White Look-alike Competition,” which is expected to take place at the Washington Square Park arch in New York City on November 17 at 1 p.m.

“Prize: 2 packs of cigarettes + 7 days metro card,” the poster added, below information about the event and a photo of the Bear actor posing on a bicycle.

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On Sunday, fans who have the Timothée Chalamet Lookalike Contest and promoted it with posters throughout the city experienced several surprises during the event in Washington Square Park.

According to reports from NBC New York, hundreds of people gathered at the park’s arch around 1 p.m., including fans dressed as the 28-year-old actor’s famous characters, such as Willy Wonka from Wonka And Bob Dylan from Chalamet’s upcoming biopic A complete unknown.

At some point the Academy Award The nominee surprised the crowd during the unofficial competition, with a video of his arrival captured by the Associated press And fans on X He had him waving, greeting fans and posing for photos as he made his way through the crowd as fans shouted.

But New York Police Department officers quickly arrived on the scene to try to disperse the crowd because they had gathered without a permit, NBC reported. A police spokesperson told the station that at least one person was arrested and summonses were issued a video shared on X by an attendee who claimed the event organizer had been arrested.

In the video captured by AP, police could be heard sounding sirens and announcing through a megaphone: “You’re all getting summonses” to encourage the crowd to disperse.

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From L: Timothée Chalamet in Beverly Hills, California, on January 7, 2024; Timothée Chalamet lookalike contest in New York City on October 27, 2024.

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White himself has also been dabbling in lookalike territory as of late, just like his own Bruce Springsteen biopic Deliver me from nothing Officially started production in New Jersey on Monday, October 28.

A release sent out that day included the first photo of White as Springsteen75, early 1980s, when The Boss was making his hit album Nebraska. The film costs Jeremy Strong, Paul Walter Hauser, Odessa Young, Stephen Graham and Johnny Cannizzaro.