Dev Patel is being method too modest a few San Francisco look-alike contest held in his honor final month.
Whereas catching up with Selection at Saudi Arabia’s Purple Sea Movie Competition, the actor and filmmaker mentioned he’d “heard all about” his personal celeb clone showdown and was left “quite overwhelmed” and “very touched.”
The star and director of “Monkey Man” mentioned he was “surprised more than five people showed up” to the occasion, which adopted a brand new pattern of public spectacles impressed by a Timothée Chalamet look-alike contest in late October in New York Metropolis.
Providing a little bit of self-deprecating attraction, Patel added, “I also gotta say that I think most of the men who showed up were far more handsome and qualified than I am. I think I would have lost at my own lookalike contest, for sure.”
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Calling the competition “really amazing,” the “Slumdog Millionaire” star admitted he was “shocked at the sheer amount of people that showed up.”
“Hopefully, I am just the gateway to this happening to all sorts of brilliant actors of different races and genders,” Patel added, saying it was “refreshing to see a community come together like that.”
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“Hey, if there is ever a moment where I can be associated with some form of laughter and joy, it’s great,” he mentioned. “It is all good.”
The Chalamet contest attracted lots of of individuals, together with the “Dune” actor himself.
It was adopted by a slew of location-specific look-alike happenings, together with a Paul Mescal doppelgänger hunt in Dublin, Eire, and a Jeremy Allen White problem in Chicago.
