In “A Complete Unknown,” an obscure singer named Bob Dylan (performed by Timothée Chalamet) arrives at a pivotal assembly at Columbia Records 55 minutes late. Which is strictly how late Chalamet arrived Thursday night time at a gathering with Minnesota journalists.
Coincidence? Maybe. But, given how uncannily Chalamet channels the Minnesota music legend within the movie, perhaps not.
The Oscar-nominated actor mentioned he flew right here, simply hours after finishing a film with Gwyneth Paltrow, as a result of, “I like Minnesota and I discover the folks to be very nice and beneficiant of spirit. I’m certain it’s not common. I’m certain you’ve got your justifiable share of [jerks]. I simply assume it’s beautiful out right here.”
The Thursday look — he met with reporters earlier than a preview screening of “A Complete Unknown” at Minneapolis’ Main Cinema and answered questions afterward — was Chalamet’s third go to to Minnesota. He was right here twice in 2023, researching the position briefly visits to Minneapolis, Duluth and Hibbing.
Fans line as much as see Timothée Chalamet outdoors the Main Theatre in Minneapolis on Dec. 5. (Aaron Lavinsky/The Minnesota Star Tribune)
Chalamet had some typical Minnesota experiences, akin to spinning out on a patch of ice and marveling on the “unusual” plethora of casinos. He additionally received a really feel for Dylan, who’s the topic of the biopic and used his X account to indicate his help for “Timmy’s” portrayal.
“[The Minnesota visits] had been simply extraordinarily informative and transferring. Even on this journey proper now, which was my thought, I simply adore it. As a 28-year-old New Yorker, I don’t assume my path would have actually introduced me out right here, ever. So the primary time I received right here I used to be like, Bob Dylan, being on this man’s worldview,” mentioned Chalamet.
The actor mentioned he’d have felt “insecure” if he hadn’t visited the Nobel Prize-winning musician’s previous haunts, together with his childhood dwelling and highschool, to select up the singer’s dialect and get “energetic data” about him.
Timothée Chalamet arrives for press availability on Dec. 5. (Aaron Lavinsky/The Minnesota Star Tribune)
“Obviously, in a two-day journey you don’t get the whole obtain of what rising up was like. It didn’t demystify it, both, but it surely helped me see that his house is a house,” mentioned Chalamet, whose work contains the “Dune” movies, “Wonka” and “Bones and All,” which is partly set in Minnesota however wasn’t shot right here. “It wasn’t removed from what I might relate to and it helped me discover my means in, which is one thing I needed to do.”
