LOS ANGELES (AP) — Amelia Dimoldenberg solely wants 60 seconds with Timothée Chalamet.
In her decade of internet hosting the favored YouTube present “Chicken Shop Date,” she hasn’t but casually, awkwardly flirted with Chalamet over nuggets beneath brilliant fluorescent lights. Sunday, although, she may get her likelihood: Dimoldenberg will likely be on the Oscars purple carpet as an official correspondent and social media ambassador for the present. Chalamet is nominated for greatest actor, for his flip as Bob Dylan in “A Complete Unknown.” It may occur.
However Dimoldenberg, 31, is aware of in addition to anybody which you can’t actually management what occurs, or whom you get to speak to, on a purple carpet — particularly one as busy because the Oscars’. This will likely be her second yr within the place. Final yr, she riffed with Billie Eilish, flirted with Taylor Zakhar Perez, talked about falling with Jennifer Lawrence and performed rock, paper, scissors with Dwayne Johnson.
“I love the challenge of it — having 90 seconds with someone and you have to get something incredible,” she stated. “There’s a conveyor belt of celebrities, so if you love celebrity interviews it’s kind of the best place to be.”
She has an extended record of hopefuls this yr, together with nominees like Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande (whom she’s by no means met), Adrien Brody, Kieran Culkin, Jesse Eisenberg and Mikey Madison. Generally, the movie star is conversant in her work and her character; generally they’re not. That character, an exaggerated model of herself, is a star interviewer who is definitely on a date together with her topics: She’s at turns determined and overly assured, flirting in what she’s described as a really British method of constructing the opposite individual assume you do not like them.
Within the present, she makes the interactions much more awkward, and funnier, within the edit. On a purple carpet, there aren’t any such crutches. The important thing, she stated, goes with the stream and making her interviewees really feel comfy it doesn’t matter what.
“I don’t prefer one way or the other,” Dimoldenberg stated. “Sometimes people I’ve met for the very first time I could have an incredible rapport with and they kind of are pleasantly surprised by my style in a way that’s fun and refreshing.”
Her fashion is a little bit of a departure in tone for the esteemed, buttoned-up present, however indicative of the altering tides of the normal media panorama and everybody’s need to achieve broader audiences.
“Her lighthearted, humorous approach results in relatable, authentic moments,” stated Jennifer Davidson, the academy’s head of selling and communications. “Last year’s content throughout Oscars season was so well received, it only made sense to ask her back for a second year.”
Dimoldenberg is not only the host of “Chicken Shop Date” and occasional purple carpet correspondent, however a mogul within the making. The present was her thought, and she or he produces it beneath the banner of her manufacturing firm Dimz Inc. Her YouTube channel boasts greater than 2.8 million subscribers and her movies have over 668 million views. But it surely wasn’t too way back {that a} YouTube present would have been the very last thing a studio would have chosen for a movie’s press tour — particularly a film with Oscars goals. Now, reveals like hers and the equally poultry-based “Hot Ones” have gotten common stops.
Her large breakthrough with film stars got here when Daniel Kaluuya participated in a “date” in 2020. Up till then it had been primarily musicians, however now she had an Oscar-nominated actor. Two years later, a purple carpet interview with Andrew Garfield went viral and her profile skyrocketed. They reunited lately whereas he was selling “We Live In Time,” which was acquired as a lot as an occasion because the film itself.
“I always thought it was going to be a hit, if I’m honest,” Dimoldenberg stated. “I just thought it was a great idea, and I always wanted to be interviewing the biggest stars in the world. It just took 10 years to get there.”
Dimoldenberg has large plans for the long run with a number of tasks in growth together with her firm. Her important concern is ensuring that something she places her title on stays genuine to her. She was lately the topic of a prolonged profile in The New Yorker — which she preferred being a part of, however hasn’t learn. Higher, she stated, for her psychological well being.
And proper now she’s targeted on preparing for Sunday and regardless of the purple carpet gods have in retailer. One of the best ways to catch her segments throughout the purple carpet, which opens round 3:30 p.m. Japanese, is to comply with the academy and Oscars social channels, on TikTok, Instagram or YouTube.
“I’m just really excited to be back again for the Oscars,” she stated. “It’s kind of amazing to be asked back for a second year. it’s an amazing opportunity to like, go bigger and better than last year. They’ve let me kind of remain true to what people love about me and my videos. So that’s a real delight.”
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