Robert Downey Jr. is singing praise for Timothee Chalamet!

The Oscar-winning actor hosted a Q&A to promote Timothee‘s movie Marty Supreme on Thursday (January 15) at the DGA Theater in Hollywood.

During the event, Robert brought up Timothee‘s comments about wanting to be “one of the greats” and he confirmed that the young star is indeed one of them.

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“You’ve talked a lot lately about this,” Robert said (Variety). “I am literally twice your age.”

“When I was 30, I was making a movie with Norman Jewison. It was called Only You. Me and Marisa Tomei. We were on the Amalfi coast somewhere and I just go to Norman Jewison, you know Moonstruck and all these great movies, I go, ‘Norman, I think I am one of the greats. I want you to tell me if you agree with that.’ He looked at me like I was nuts. He said, ‘Well, Mr. Downey, that remains to be seen,’” he continued.

Robert concluded, “And I want to say in front of God and everyone in this audience here with you that as of Marty Supreme, it no longer remains to be seen. Let’s hear it for, Timothée Chalamet.”

Timothee just took the next step in his personal relationship.