Timothée Chalamet never worked with Bob Dylan before playing the famous singer in the upcoming biopic “A Complete Unknown.”
Actually, both have still not met each other.
“I never met him,” Chalamet, 28, said. “The Zane Lowe Show” On Monday while promoting his film based on Dylan’s life coming out for Christmas.
The “Dune” star said the 83-year-old Dylan “has kind of fallen out of the public eye.”
“Never met him. Would love to!” Chalamet said.
james mangold film Follows Dylan’s early years in New York City and his rise to fame in the 1960s.
The film co-stars Elle Fanning as Dylan’s then-girlfriend Sylvie Russo, Edward Norton as Pete Seeger, and Boyd Holbrook as Johnny Cash.
Chalamet confirmed to Zane Lowe that Dylan had little involvement in the production of “A Complete Unknown”.
Chalamet said, “He approved the script, he made revisions to the script, he had some lines in the script that I liked.” “I was saying to Jim Mangold, ‘This is cool, man. When did you come up with this?’ He says, ‘Bob put it in. I’ll ask Jim for it, but I want it.’
The Oscar nominee explained that he is “so honored” to have the opportunity to play Dylan and tell his story on the big screen. He also shared that he did not try to imitate Dylan’s voice for the role.
“Bob didn’t have a singing coach. He had two bottles of red wine and four packets of cigarettes. There’s no way to replicate it,” he said.
Recalling his first experience performing on the set, Chalamet described how emotional he became after singing “Song to Woody”, which he called one of his “favorite Bob Dylan songs of all time”.
He said, “I went home and cried that night, not to be dramatic, but it’s a song I’ve lived with for years and is something I can connect with deeply.” “And I also felt, I come back to this word again and again, I felt like it was the most honorable thing I could ever do.”
Mangold, 60, first told Rolling Stone He thought Chalamet’s performance was “miraculous”.
The director also recalled that when Dylan asked him what the film would be about, he told great musician“It’s about a guy who is suffocating to death in Minnesota, and leaves all his friends and family behind and establishes himself in a completely new place, makes new friends, a new Builds a family, becomes phenomenally successful, and starts suffocating to death again. – and runs away.
Mangold shared that Dylan replied, “I love that.”
‘A Complete Unknown’ will release on December 25.
