Timothée Chalamet’s portrayal of Bob Dylan in James Mangold’s upcoming movie, A Complete Unknown, appreciated by Dylan.
Dylan posted on social media on Wednesday, saying, “A Complete Unknown (what a title!) is a film about me that opens quickly.”
“Timothee Chalamet is starring within the lead function. Timmy’s an excellent actor so I’m certain he’s going to be utterly plausible as me. Or a youthful me. Or another me.”
The story of the film revolves round Dylan, who was 19 on the time, went from Minnesota to New York City in the summertime of 1961,carrying solely his guitar.
The film was impressed on the 2015 ebook Dylan Goes Electric. The controversy surrounding Dylan’s swap to electrically amplified devices is examined in Elijah Wald’s ebook Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties.
Dylan wrote on Wednesday that the ebook is “a incredible retelling of occasions from the early ‘60s that led as much as the fiasco at Newport,” and added, “After you’ve seen the film learn the ebook.”
Chalamet lately opened as much as Zane Lowe about feeling related to Dylan’s story. “I’ve had a life expertise, I received’t say it’s bizarre, however I can relate to a few of these issues [Bob Dylan] went by means of,” Chalamet stated.
“Bob needed to be a rock ‘n’ roll star — Buddy Holly, Little Richard, Elvis Presley — that was the kind of, relying in your perspective, the kind of rice crispy pop, rock ‘n’ roll music that was saturated, you understand, marketed to youngsters within the late ’50s. Equally, I needed to be an enormous film actor.”
He continued, “I discovered my means into these very customized motion pictures. For [Dylan], it was folks music. He couldn’t hold a rock ‘n’ roll band as a result of they’d all get employed by different youngsters that had more cash, actually, in Minnesota. So for me, it was discovering a really private type film — Call Me By Your Name or Beautiful Boy or Lady Bird or Little Women, Miss Stevens, Hot Summer Nights. Those have been smaller price range however very… I don’t know the way else to place it… personable motion pictures that began on this theater area. This is the place I discovered my rhythm, my confidence, my circulation, no matter you need to name it.”
A Complete Unknown hits theaters on Christmas Day.
