Is Timothée Chalamet Manly?

What a question, but he is a heartthrob of young women across the world. He is 30 years old.

He is about 5 foot, 10 inches and weighs around 150 pounds.

Size doesn’t matter—no pun intended. Really, it doesn’t. If a 4-foot, 10-inch man who was round as a basketball kept his composure and saved a drowning girl, we’d call him manly; whereas, on the same beach, if a monster of muscle who could probably bounce the small man like a basketball didn’t respond with selfless strength in that dire moment, we’d call him a poor imitation of a man. So, though Chalamet’s arms are skinny enough to resemble an adolescent girl’s, this actually does not matter.

Some of his films are very manly. In the Dune series, he fights believably with knives and builds a badass army of warrior tribesmen to overthrow the Harkonnens—manly stuff. In A Complete Unknown he isn’t just the symbol of cool as Bob Dylan, he rises into the role in such a manly way that we believe him when he steps onto those stages; he also defines this character with well-delivered lines like: “You don’t get to tell me who I am because you liked who I was yesterday” and “The moment you start giving people what they want, you stop being real.” He was playing a man who had the balls to define himself—now that’s what an heroic gent would do.

But what about his recent appearance at the Golden Globes? He remained stoic as his girlfriend of three years now, Kylie Jenner, stuck out her tongue and flipped the bird like a drunk college chick. Okay, there are some man points there, as a man should hold himself together in public. He might have more if we knew he later let her know that is not how his lady should act. Think Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca telling an out-of-control woman “I didn’t like that.” That is classic manly restraint—emotion held stoically under control in a flat statement.

Still, what Chalamet did say at the Globes was manly: “My dad instilled in me a spirit of gratitude growing up: always be grateful for what you have. It’s allowed me to leave this ceremony in the past, empty-handed, my head held high, grateful just to be here. I’d be lying if I didn’t say those moments didn’t make this moment that much sweeter."

But, then the orange suit he wore alongside his girlfriend, who was in a matching suit, at the Marty Supreme Los Angeles premiere was not so manly. He usually has his own style, but on that night he seemed to let Jenner pick his outfit. We’ll need to subtract a few points there, but not so many, as he is a celebrity and they get passes for that kind of stuff.

In an interview with 60 Minutes he was humble and polite—he even remembered the doorman’s name in an apartment building he used to live in. That’s manly.

So, in the end, yes, he qualifies as an heroic gent.