Timothée Chalamet hit with parking ticket after riding e-bike to “A Complete Unknown” premiere

"It's ecological!"

Samir Hussein/WireImage Timothée Chalamet rides a Lime e-bike to the 'A Complete Unknown' premiere in London on Jan. 14

Samir Hussein/WireImage

Timothée Chalamet rides a Lime e-bike to the 'A Complete Unknown' premiere in London on Jan. 14

No good deed goes unpunished.

Timothée Chalamet found that out the hard way when he rode a Lime e-bike to the London premiere of A Complete Unknown. As he revealed on a recent segment from the French talk show Quotidien, the actor claims he was slapped with a £65 ticket for improperly parking the bike. That translates to roughly $80.

"It's ecological!" he cried in exasperation.

Chalamet joked that the photo op with the bike in front of the giant A Complete Unknown backdrop was "horrible, because it was actually kind of an advert for them" — the e-scooter and e-bike sharing company. He cited a local traffic jam for the unusual mode of transit.

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Reps for Chalamet did not immediately respond to Entertainment Weekly's request for comment.

Related: Neil Young once threw Bob Dylan off his bus but loves A Complete Unknown

Chalamet's press tour for the Bob Dylan biopic has been unconventional from start to finish. He crashed his own look-alike contest in New York in October, kindly stepping aside to allow the winner to claim their rightful $50 cash prize. Then he channeled Dylan himself on a December red carpet, emulating one of the bard's more outlandish looks — a wintry blue beanie, tightly wrapped scarf, and shocking blonde bangs.

He also stopped by the University of Minnesota's band practice, a diplomatic visit chronicled by none other than Amy Klobuchar, one of the state's senators.

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Karwai Tang/WireImage Timothée Chalamet

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Timothée Chalamet

A Complete Unknown is Chalamet's latest transformation, after taking on the mad chocolatier in the colorful musical reboot Wonka and returning to the role of Paul Atreides in Denis Villeneuve's Dune: Part Two.

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Directed by James Mangold, A Complete Unknown is loosely based on Elijah Wald's 2015 book Dylan Goes Electric!, and it follows the folk singer from his earliest acoustic success to his radical transition to electric at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival.

Chalamet is already garnering recognition for his performance, picking up a Best Actor nomination at the 2025 Golden Globe awards (a trophy that went to Adrien Brody for The Brutalist) and another nod at the upcoming Critics Choice Awards.

Related: A Complete Unknown director James Mangold breaks down what's fact vs. fiction in Bob Dylan biopic

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