Bob Dylan is giving his stamp of approval to Timothée Chalamet and the biopic “A Complete Unknown.”
“There’s a movie about me opening soon called ‘A Complete Unknown’ (what a title!). Timothee Chalamet is starring in the lead role,” the singer, 83, wrote through X on Wednesday. “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.”
Dylan added, “The film’s taken from Elijah Wald’s ‘Dylan Goes Electric’ 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.”
Though the musician hasn’t shared if he’s seen the movie, Chalamet, 28, was blown away by Dylan’s praises. who replied to the tweet by writing, “Floored. I am so grateful. Thank you Bob.”
The “Wonka” star additionally posted a screenshot of the songwriter’s message to his Instagram Story on Thursday, taking a second to relish in Dylan’s feedback.
“Screaming crying laughing screaming laughing pooping screaming crying,” he wrote alongside the snap. “THANK YOU BOB!!!! DREAM COME TRUE!!!!”
In “A Complete Unknown,” Chalamet performs a youthful model of the legendary musician. The film follows Dylan from the start of his profession in Nineteen Sixties New York to his well-known electrical guitar efficiency of “Like a Rolling Stone” on the 1965 Newport Folks Competition.
Regardless of Dylan not being straight concerned with the mission, director James Mangold instructed Rolling Stone final month that he sat down with the icon on varied events earlier than filming started.
“Bob would have these one-off lines that were so fantastic,” Chalamet instructed the outlet in a joint interview with Mangold, 60. “Jim has an annotated Bob script lying around somewhere. I’ll beg him to get my hands on it. He’ll never give it to me.”
The director additionally famous that he “felt like Bob just wanted to know what I was up to,” including, “’Who is this guy? Is he a s – – thead? Does he get it?’ — I think the normal questions anyone asks when they’re throwing themselves in league with someone.”
Chalamet spoke with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe final month and reflecting on portraying Dylan on the massive display screen. He known as enjoying the musical genius “the most unique challenge I’ve taken on,” significantly as a result of he needed to sing and play guitar reside on set.
“It was ‘Song to Woody,’ which is one of my favorite Bob Dylan songs ever,” mentioned Chalamet. “It was the first one we shot in the movie. You couldn’t do it to a playback because it’s such an intimate scene. It’s in a hospital room with Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger. And I did it live and it went great.”
He continued: “I’m making mistakes on the guitar a little bit here and there, but you can kind of fill those in after. 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. 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.”
“A Complete Unknown” hits theaters Christmas Day.
