Unknown no extra.
Actress Monica Barbaro lastly met Joan Baez, the long-lasting folksinger, activist and ex-girlfriend of Bob Dylan, who she performs within the new film “A Complete Unknown.”
Barbaro, 34, captured her candy encounter with Baez, 84, in photographs she shared Monday on Instagram.
“A beautiful night in so many ways,” the “Top Gun: Maverick” star captioned the submit. “Absolutely surreal. Joan. You’re a legend.”
Oscar-nominated for her portrayal of Baez within the Timothée Chalamet-led movie, Barbaro included two snaps with the legendary musician together with two clips of her performing Monday night time in San Francisco on the Candy Reduction Musician’s thirtieth anniversary profit live performance, which named Baez because the night’s honoree.
Baez’s 1975 hit “Diamonds and Rust,” which was impressed by her relationship with Dylan, was among the many songs included in her setlist.
With greater than 30 albums to her identify, together with many fashionable protest songs, Baez is taken into account to have been instrumental in Dylan’s early work. Already a longtime artist when she met the “Like a Rolling Stone” singer-songwriter in 1961, Baez took Dylan on as her protégé and launched his music to her fanbase. Their relationship quickly took a romantic flip, however they broke issues off in 1965.
In a 2023 interview with Folks journal after the discharge of her documentary “I Am a Noise,” Baez mentioned she had “total forgiveness” for Dylan.
“We were in our early 20s,” she defined. “We were stupid, and you can’t blame somebody forever. I certainly tried but finally stopped.”
Although Baez and Barbaro had not met in individual earlier than Monday, the pair had communicated over the telephone, with the musician serving to the “FUBAR” actress put together for “A Complete Unknown.”
“At that point I had her pretty high on a pedestal,” Barbaro confessed to the Marin Impartial Journal. “If I were to interview her and not be playing her in a movie, then I would be incredibly nervous and intimidated to, like, speak to her and not say something stupid. But with the added pressure of embodying her in this film, I really wanted to do her justice, but I wasn’t sure if I was going to speak to her in part because of the intimidation factor.”
Of their telephone name, Barbaro mentioned, “I felt emotional hearing her voice on the phone because I had been studying her voice in her 20s so intensely. And I felt like I had so much respect for her.”
The dialog was easygoing, in keeping with Barbaro, who added that Baez was open to her questions.
“[She] was like, ‘Oh, I’m just in my garden listening to the birds.’ And I was like, ‘Oh, yeah, you don’t live or die by what we say about you in this movie,’” the actress recalled. “She’s lived her life. And I can’t imagine how surreal it would be to know that someone is sort of dressing up and playing you in a movie,”
Barbaro continued, “But she really took it in stride. She wasn’t trying to dictate in any way my response to her. She was like, ‘I’m here, I’m open and available for any question you have.’ I was really appreciative that she was so generous with me.”
After seeing “A Complete Unknown,” Baez was effusive concerning the star’s portrayal of her.
“I loved what she did in the film,” the singer gushed to the Journal. “If I didn’t think she was good at it, I probably wouldn’t have enjoyed it in general. But she looked enough like me and she had my gestures down. You could tell who it was. She worked so hard. Kudos to her for taking the role on.”
