Cape Town - Timothée Chalamet will star alongside the likes of Tilda Swinton and BIll Murray in Wes Anderson's new movie The French Dispatch.
The 23-year-old will play one of the leads in the drama set in the 1950s which follows a group of journalists at an American newspaper bureau in Paris.
Filming of the movie began on Wednesday in France.
Other cast members include: Frances McDormand, Benicio del Toro and Jeffrey Wright.
On Thursday the young actor was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Beautiful Boy.
The movie in which Timothée plays a drug addicted teenager; chronicles the heartbreaking and inspiring experience of survival, relapse, and recovery in a family coping with addiction over many years.
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Beautiful Boy releases in SA cinemas on Friday, 11 January.