True to form, when Cartier offered him an evening to celebrate his appointment as one of the Academy’s five picks for Best Actor of 2024, Timothée swerved on an atypical brand-ambassador dinner, opting for something much livelier, more unexpected, and gleefully random: poker night.
Cut to a posh evening in a spacious suite on the sixth floor of the famed LA hotel—three full poker tables complete with dealers, bartenders, a DJ playing everything from Sinatra to “Let the Beat Build,”…

