In a current publish on X, Bob Dylan made clear his assist of Timothée Chalamet enjoying him in James Mangold‘s upcoming biopic A Full Unknown. The long-lasting singer-songwriter wrote that Chalamet is “an excellent actor so I’m positive he’s going to be utterly plausible as me.” And on Monday, the eve of the movie’s LA premiere, Chalamet advised Deadline that studying Dylan’s phrases felt “actually, actually affirming”.
As for what else Dylan makes of the venture as an entire, Chalamet stated, “It’s laborious to inform. He’s a mysterious, elusive determine. So I figured if he or his group didn’t need me to be part of it, I’d’ve recognized about that. However equally, I didn’t actually know the way concerned he’d be.”
Whereas writer-director Mangold has confirmed to Deadline that Dylan hasn’t but seen the movie, Chalamet famous that the musician “acquired creatively concerned with Mangold, which was nice, he gave his enter on the script,” but in addition that the venture was by no means meant to copy Dylan in a exact method. “It’s an interpretation,” he stated. “This was a fable. This was not meant to be a Wikipedia fact-for-fact recreation of the way it was. In any other case, you may as effectively simply watch the footage that exists.”
A Full Unknown covers Dylan’s early emergence into folks music as much as the purpose the place he picked up an electrical guitar and leaned into rock. Mangold and his co-writer Jay Cocks based mostly the screenplay on the 2015 e book Dylan Goes Electrical! Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Evening That Cut up the Sixties, by Elijah Wald and Edward Norton stars as Seeger, Monica Barbaro is Joan Baez and Elle Fanning is Dylan’s girlfriend Sylvie (a model of Suze Rotolo, renamed at Dylan’s request).
Chalamet spent 5 years getting ready for his function, studying guitar and performing all of the songs within the movie himself. As as to whether he’s thought of writing or performing music in future, he stated “I by no means have in a severe method, however then there’s no such factor as severe writing.”
Chalamet additionally defined the choice to sing dwell within the movie. He had initially pre-recorded tracks in LA with the movie’s govt music producer Nick Baxter. However, he stated, “When it got here time to do it, it simply was higher dwell and it felt extra lived in and extra genuine. It triggered a little bit of a panic on set, however it was price it. And Edward Norton was form of just like the satan in my ear, saying, ‘Do it dwell. You sound higher dwell.’”
Requested if Dylan’s tendency to shrink back from the fanfare round intense fame resonated for him personally, Chalamet stated, “I feel it’s true of any artistic most likely. I used to be speaking about this with a pal the opposite day, that when you go to artwork faculty, or when you’re an aspiring actor or singer, in the end it’s the lonely child rising up that ever actually had one thing to say. That doesn’t imply you couldn’t be an awesome artist with out. One might even have had quite a lot of buddies rising up, or a vibrant internal life. However usually, it’s isolation or moments of repose or introspection or statement—or restlessness in my case—that then provide you with a voice. And the trick that I feel Bob mastered fairly shortly early on within the interpretation of the film—I can’t communicate for the man in actual life—is to guard that. And your expertise with somebody on the road who’s unfamiliar together with your music or your artwork, by some means will likely be of higher gas in some moments in life than somebody who’s sycophantic.”
SearchLight Footage’ A Full Unknown is in theaters December twenty fifth.
