Hollywood star Timothée Chalamet is heading to the London stage next spring in a production of Amy Herzog’s Pulitzer prize-nominated play 4,000 Miles.

Chalamet, who shot to stardom with his film role in Luca Guadagnino’s gay romance Call Me By Your Name, will star at the Old Vic alongside Eileen Atkins.

Herzog’s work was nominated for a Pulitzer in 2013. 4,000 Miles tells the story of 21-year-old Leo who goes on a cross-country cycling tour with his best friend. After weeks of no contact he arrives alone at the home of his 91-year-old grandmother, Vera, in Manhattan.

Chalamet, son of an American Jewish mother and a French Protestant father, has also been cast as Paul Atreides in a forthcoming remake of Dune, and will appear in the sequel to Call Me By Your Name, which is called Find Me.

The grandmother in the play is based on Herzog’s own grandmother, Leepee. In 2013 she told the JC: “My grandmother took a lot of pride in being Jewish in a cultural way. But — like most Marxists, I would say — she was disdainful of organised religion.

“She had real faith in Jewish genes though. I guess she was concerned that when my father married a gentile that it would mean her grandchildren wouldn’t be very intelligent.”