<p id=”par-1_57″>This December, <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/tag/timothee-chalamet/?swcfpc=1″>Timothée Chalamet</a> will portray <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/tag/bob-dylan/?swcfpc=1″>Bob Dylan</a> in the <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/movies/”>film</a> <em>A Complete Unknown</em>. The actor spent years preparing for the role and said he became a Dylan fanatic in the process. It seems that Dylan has also become a fan of Chalamet’s work. In a post on social media, Dylan praised Dylan’s skill as an actor.</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-bob-dylan-spoke-highly-of-timothee-chalamet-s-acting”>Bob Dylan spoke highly of Timothée Chalamet’s acting</h2>
<p id=”par-2_16″>When director James Mangold began working on <em>A Complete Unknown</em>, he had a conversation with Dylan.</p>
<p id=”par-3_72″>“The first time I sat down with him, Bob said, ‘What’s this movie about, Jim?’” Mangold said in a separate interview with <a href=”https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/bob-dylan-biopic-james-mangold-exclusive-trailer-1235065964/” target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>Rolling Stone</a>. “I said, ‘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.”</p>
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<p id=”par-4_23″>Dylan <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/bob-dylan-supportive-timothee-chalamet-led-biopic-a-complete-unknown.html/”>approved of this take</a> on his early years. He later gave his stamp of approval on the actor who would portray him.</p>
<p id=”par-5_83″>“Timothée Chalamet is starring in the lead role,” Dylan wrote in a post on X (formerly Twitter). “Timmy’s a brilliant actor so I’m sure he’s going to be completely believable as me. Or a younger me. Or some other me. The film’s taken from Elijah Wald’s <em>Dylan Goes Electric</em> – a book that came out in 2015. It’s a fantastic retelling of events from the early ‘60s that led up to the fiasco at Newport. After you’ve seen the movie read the book.”</p>
<p id=”par-6_7″>Chalamet responded to Dylan’s post with gratitude.</p>
<p id=”par-7_10″>“Floored,” he posted. “I am so grateful. Thank you Bob.” </p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-timothee-chalamet-said-he-fully-immersed-himself-in-the-role”>Timothée Chalamet said he fully immersed himself in the role</h2>
<p id=”par-8_21″>Chalamet said he took his role as Dylan very seriously. He often went to <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/timothee-chalamet-admitted-sleep-panicked-playing-bob-dylan.html/”>bed in a panic</a> over his portrayal.</p>
<p id=”par-9_71″>“It was something I would go to sleep panicked about, losing a moment of discovery as the character — no matter how pretentious that sounds — because I was on my phone or because of any distraction,” he told <a target=”_blank” href=”https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/timothee-chalamet-a-complete-unknown-bob-dylan-cover-story-interview-1235157596/” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>Rolling Stone</a>. “I had three months of my life to play Bob Dylan, after five years of preparing to play him. So while I was in it, that was my eternal focus.”</p>
<p id=”par-10_12″>He said he wanted to do right by Dylan in the film.</p>
<p id=”par-11_30″>“He deserved that and then more … God forbid I missed a step because I was being Timmy,” he said. “I could be Timmy for the rest of my life!”</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-he-impressed-his-co-stars”>He impressed his co-stars</h2>
<p id=”par-12_36″>According to Chalamet’s co-stars, his arduous preparation paid off. Edward Norton, who plays Pete Seeger, spoke highly of Chalamet’s performance. Elle Fanning, who plays Dylan’s girlfriend Sylvie Russo, said his singing voice <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/elle-fanning-said-set-shaking-heard-timothee-chalamet-sing-bob-dylan.html/”>took her breath away</a>.</p>
<p id=”par-13_48″>“We were in an auditorium, and I was sitting amongst all these background artists,” she said. “[Director James Mangold] would let Timmy come out and give the crowd a whole concert. He was singing ‘<a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/robert-plant-said-1-bob-dylan-song-changed-everything.html/?swcfpc=1″>Masters of War</a>’ and ‘A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall,’ and I was like, ‘Jesus.’”</p>
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<p id=”par-14_11″>She thought it was a perfectly done take on Dylan’s singing.</p>
<p id=”par-15_43″>“All of us were kind of shaking, because it was so surreal hearing someone do that,” she said. “So perfectly done, but it wasn’t a caricature. It was still Timmy, but it’s Bob, and this kind of beautiful meld. That gave me chills.”</p>
<p id=”par-16_9″><em>A Complete Unknown</em> comes to theaters on Dec. 25.</p>