Dev Patel is being way too modest about a San Francisco look-alike contest held in his honor last month.
While catching up with Variety at Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Festival, the actor and filmmaker said he’d “heard all about” his own celebrity clone showdown and was left “quite overwhelmed” and “very touched.”
The star and director of “Monkey Man” said he was “surprised more than five people showed up” to the event, which followed a new trend of public spectacles inspired by a Timothée Chalamet look-alike contest in late October in New York City.
Offering a bit of self-deprecating charm, 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 contest “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 said. “It is all good.”
The Chalamet contest attracted hundreds of people, including the “Dune” actor himself.
It was followed by a slew of location-specific look-alike happenings, including a Paul Mescal doppelgänger hunt in Dublin, Ireland, and a Jeremy Allen White challenge in Chicago.
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