Chloe Fineman Says She Pitched ‘Touching’ Timothée Chalamet in ‘Babygirl’-Style Sketch During Recent SNL Gig but ‘He Wasn’t Really Having That’

Chloe Fineman is revealing the idea Timothée Chalamet turned down ahead of his recent Saturday Night Live gig.
The comedian, 36, appeared on Watch What Happens Live on Wednesday, Jan. 29, where she talked about working with Chalamet on the iconic show. One skit Fineman said she hoped to do was inspired by the erotic thriller Babygirl, starring Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson, but Chalamet didn’t find the concept as exciting.
“I pitched a lot of us touching, or like Babygirl and he’s giving me milk, and he wasn’t really having that milk-Babygirl stuff,” Fineman laughed, referring to the iconic scene where Dickinson’s character orders Kidman’s a glass of milk of across the bar and watches her drink it.
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When a fan asked why she didn’t do her iconic impression of the actor while he was there hosting, Fineman said she didn’t feel like it was the right time.
“I’ve been saying, I feel like I’ve done it twice already this year without him, and I really feel like I’m leaning more, like, L word,” she explained, joking, “I don’t know. I’m a lot older than him. I just feel like I’m this cool les lady. I just feel like I’m, like, too lesbian.”
“I think that now we know each other, it’s sort of embarrassing,” she continued. “I feel like this weird older woman, being like, ‘Hey little boy, can I put your sweatpants on?’ ‘Cause I’ve worn his — sometimes I’ll wear his real clothes doing it, which was really fun.”
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Fineman was most recently dressed as Chalamet in November when she did a sketch about the Timothée Chalamet look-alike contest that happened in New York. That same night, former Vice President Kamala Harris was also at the show, and Fineman revealed in a TikTok that she had forgotten she didn’t exactly look like herself at the time.
“I’m waiting for photographic evidence, but last night at SNL, I turned a corner and I was like, ‘Oh my god, Oh my god.’ And it was Kamala,” she told fans in a video. “I’m a freak and was like ‘Bay Area’ because I’m from the Bay as is she.”
“And I was like, ‘Oh my god, blah, blah, blah, you lived in my best friend’s apartment,’ like, doo, doo, talking about Oakland. And I was so excited,” Fineman added, saying she didn’t think twice about snapping a photo with the politician.
“Her aides were like, ‘Do you want a picture?’ And I was like, ‘Yes.’ And I held her hand and just was motivational and speaking from the heart,” she said. “And then, we go to take the picture, and as we’re taking a picture, I’m like, ‘Oh my god, I’m dressed as Timothée Chalamet.’ I need to find this picture, but damn, and I don’t look bad as Timothée Chalamet but it’s crazy. It’s crazy.”
Saturday Night Live airs Saturdays at 11:30 p.m. ET on NBC.