Timothée Chalamet couldn’t help but let his WWE fanboy out when meeting Dave Bautista on the set of Dune.

It’s no secret that Chalamet grew up a huge WWE fan, but he really might just be like the rest of us. Chalamet recalls meeting Bautista for the first time, using the opportunity to play his WWE entrance theme.

“I knocked on his trailer door and I had ‘The Animal’ theme song playing. I hadn’t met him and I was [doing the machine gun taunt]. The look on his face was priceless. He had no clue,” Chalamet said on Chody Rhodes’ What Do You Wanna Talk About? {h/t: Fightful).

They’ve worked together on both Dune (2021) and the sequel, Dune: Part Two, which released in 2024.

“I love working with Dave. He’s a very serious guy. A very serious actor. The last time I saw Dave, I couldn’t locate

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