In Call Me By Your Name, Chalamet sensitively depicts Elio"s sun-drenched summer of queer infatuation sparked by the arrival of his father"s graduate student. With Chalamet, an emblem of today"s magnetic teen idol, the resemblance between generational heartthrobs is strikingly similar. Not only did Chalamet star in Call Me By Your Name when he was the same age as Phoenix in My Own Private Idaho, but his character too comes to terms with an unrequited queer love that burns as fiercely as the flames before him. It seems Chalamet is walking a similar path to predecessors Reeves and Phoenix, or that the 90s stars at least made this path of a heartthrob accessible to a new generation of contemporary actors.