Timothée Chalamet Got $79 Fine After Riding Bike To ‘A Complete Unknown’ London Premiere​on January 16, 2025 at 3:48 am

Although Timothée Chalamet opted for a sensible mode of transportation for his latest red carpet, apparently no good deed goes unpunished.

After the Oscar nominee arrived to Tuesday’s London premiere of A Complete Unknown on a Lime bike, he revealed he was slapped with a £65 (roughly $79) fine for incorrectly parking the ride.

“It’s ecological!” explained Chalamet on the French talk show Quotidien of why he hopped the bike. “It was horrible, because it was actually kind of an advert for them.”

He noted that he opted out of taking a car to the BFI Southbank premiere due to a traffic jam.

Chalamet’s bike ride comes after he earned a Golden Globe nomination for his performance as Bob Dylan in writer/director James Mangold‘s biopic A Complete Unknown.

Now playing in theaters, the biopic follows an enigmatic 19-year-old from Minnesota who arrives in NYC in 1961 with his guitar and revolutionary talent, destined to change the course of American music. He forges intimate relationships with music icons of Greenwich Village on his meteoric rise, culminating in a groundbreaking and controversial performance that reverberates worldwide.

A Complete Unknown also stars Edward Norton as Pete Seeger, Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez, Elle Fanning as Sylvie Russo, Boyd Holbrook as Johnny Cash, Will Harrison as Bob Neuwirth and more.

Chalamet previously told Deadline on the red carpet of the film’s Los Angeles premiere of working with Norton on their portrayals, “We were like a menace to Jim because we were always trying to sneak stuff in and honor these amazing artists. My favorite thing about Edward in the production of this movie and also after this, is he really wanted to honor the spirit of Bob — who is alive and well — and Pete Seeger through this press, and not compromise why we’re ultimately there, the sort of pure values that you kind of have to when you’re putting a movie out there. But I think Edward’s always been very clear-sighted about that.”