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Timothée Chalamet Details How He Transformed Into Bob Dylan for New Movie (Exclusive)
Timothée Chalamet handled his relation arsenic Bob Dylan with care.
The 28-year-old histrion transformed into the iconic instrumentalist for the upcoming film, A Complete Unknown—where helium was encouraged to enactment his ain rotation connected the role.
“Harry Shifman, 1 of my earliest mentors,” Timothée said successful an exclusive clip from the Nov. 11 interivew connected Apple Music’s The Zane Lowe Show, “when I was taking connected this role, helium said, ‘Don't interest astir being Bob Dylan due to the fact that radical tin spell spot Bob Dylan, they tin ticker the aboriginal footage oregon spell spot him present due to the fact that helium inactive tours.’”
He continued, “This is astir not lone myself interpreting Bob, but Edward Norton interpreting Pete Seeger, Monica interpreting Joan Baez and Boyd Holbrook interpreting Johnny Cash successful this infinitesimal successful the '60s wherever American civilization was a kaleidoscope and Greenwich Village was a kaleidoscope, the mode civilization inactive is present too, but without being a past teacher, that was the beginning, personalized music, worldly with intention, worldly with poetry, it each started determination successful the movie.”
The biopic focuses connected Dylan's aboriginal days arsenic a instrumentalist successful New York City, including the Minnesota native's iconic show astatine the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. There, the mostly acoustic singer-songwriter rocked retired connected electrical guitar and shook up the people euphony scene.
And that’s wherever Timothée truly had a alteration to radiance arsenic the “Blowin’ In The Wind” singer.
When it came to the afloat performances, the Wonka prima prerecorded a fig of tracks but advocated to usage his ain singing dependable arsenic helium felt the nonrecreational recordings often felt “too clean” for the film. And for 1 peculiar country that sees Timothée performing successful a infirmary room, the intimacy of doing the opus unrecorded connected camera paid off.
“When I did 'Song to Woody,' which is simply a opus I could subordinate excessively deeply, it went great.” helium said of filming the sequence. “Then I was like, ‘all right, I'm going to combat this warfare until the remainder of the movie.’ The metaphor was similar I was throwing this delicately made china connected the crushed each clip we didn't usage a prerecord, thing we had crafted successful LA for six months, but there's not a azygous prerecord successful the movie.”
He continued, “And then, Jim would say, to console Nick oregon myself, ‘Treat that arsenic similar a enactment session, you were practicing to bash it live.’ Because each of a sudden, Edward Norton would accidental too, thing clicked successful my voice, determination was a definite rawness. Those microphones, those aged schoolhouse microphones we were utilizing erstwhile playing successful performance halls, I could get the strum amended and I could get however helium was singing.”
Aside from singing, Timothée said that helium mastered Dylan’s imperfect mode of playing the guitar and singing—something helium said fans should look for erstwhile they spot the film.
“It's confined and contrived,” helium said of the Grammy-winning musician’s playing style. “And you tin besides perceive that my arm's not going the mode you don't perceive Bob's limb going, but it's doing thing to his voice.”
A Complete Unknown premieres successful theaters connected Dec. 25, and don’t miss Zane’s beryllium down with Timothée connected Nov. 11.
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