Chalamet might not realize it, but he is expressing a fear that is not being reckoned with by his peers. Photo: A24 Over dinner and dirty martinis at a steakhouse in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood, I spoke with a good friend and fellow writer about Timothée Chalamet’s recent flaunting of his own artistic and intellectual deficiencies. In a conversation with Matthew McConaughey for Variety , Chalamet continued his swaggering plea for Best Actor Oscar glory. Between bits of aggrandizing