Timothée Chalamet didn’t sit down with Bob Dylan earlier than taking part in the famed singer within the upcoming biopic “A Complete Unknown.”
In reality, the 2 nonetheless haven’t met one another.
“I never met him,” Chalamet, 28, mentioned on “The Zane Lowe Show” on Monday whereas selling his film about Dylan’s life that comes out on Christmas.
The “Dune” star added that Dylan, 83, has “sort of retreated from the public eye.”
“Never met him. Would love to!” Chalamet mentioned.
James Mangold’s film follows Dylan’s early years in New York Metropolis and his rise to fame within the Sixties.
The movie co-stars Elle Fanning as Dylan’s then-girlfriend Sylvie Russo, Edward Norton as Pete Seeger and Boyd Holbrook as Johnny Money.
Chalamet confirmed to Zane Lowe that Dylan had little or no involvement within the making of “A Complete Unknown.”
“He approved the script, he made modifications to the script, there are lines that are his in the script that I relished,” Chalamet mentioned. “There was one I was saying to Jim Mangold, ‘This is good, man. When did you come up with this?’ He goes, ‘Bob put that in.’ He has the Bob-annotated script. I’m gonna ask Jim for it. He’s not gonna give it to me, but I want it.”
The Oscar nominee defined that he’s “so prideful” that he will get to play Dylan and inform his story on the large display screen. He additionally shared that he didn’t attempt to mimic Dylan’s voice for the function.
“Bob did not have a vocal coach. He had two bottles of red wine and four packs of cigarettes. There’s no way to impersonate that,” he famous.
Trying again on his first expertise of acting on set, Chalamet defined how emotional he acquired after singing “Song to Woody,” which he known as one in every of his “favorite Bob Dylan songs ever.”
“I went home and I wept that night, not to be dramatic, but it’s a song I’d been living with for years and something I could relate to deeply,” he mentioned. “And I also felt, I come back to this word a lot, I felt like it was the most dignified work I’d ever done.”
Mangold, 60, beforehand informed Rolling Stone that he thought Chalamet’s efficiency was “miraculous.”
The director additionally recalled that when Dylan requested him what the film could be about, he informed the legendary musician, “It’s about a guy who’s choking to death in Minnesota, and leaves behind all his friends and family and reinvents himself in a brand-new place, makes new friends, builds a new family, becomes phenomenally successful, starts to choke to death again — and runs away.”
Mangold shared that Dylan replied, “I like that.”
“A Complete Unknown” might be launched on Dec. 25.
