Timothée Chalamet makes the film crew shiver by singing Bob Dylan without playback

In December, Timothée Chalamet will play singer Bob Dylan in a biopic entitled A Complete Unknowndirected by James Mangold. And the 28-year-old actor took his role particularly to heart: in addition to using a methodological approach to remain completely immersed in his role, he sang all the songs himself, without ever using playback.

A performance which impressed her co-stars on set, and in particular Elle Fanning who plays the role of Suze Rotolo, Bob Dylan's great love in his early days. “We were in an auditorium, (…) Timmy was giving the crowd an entire concert. He sang Masters of War et A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Falland I was impressed,” she told Rolling Stone .

Also read
In video, Timothée Chalamet, transformed, sings, plays guitar and blends into Bob Dylan's costume

“We were all shaking, because it was so surreal to hear someone do that. So it was perfectly done, but it wasn't a caricature. It was still Timmy, but it’s Bob, and that kind of beautiful fusion gave me chills.”

“In his own world”

On the set, Thimothée Chalamet would have remained mainly “alone”, “in his own world in a way that I think Bob was often too”, indicated actress Monica Barbaro, who plays Joan Baez in the film. Edward Norton described the actor as “relentless”. “No visitors, no friends, no rehearsals, nothing. No one came around us while we were filming,” he told the magazine.

A desire to get into the role, to the point of calling himself Bob Dylan on the attendance sheet. Which led Elle Fanning to believe that she was going to meet the real Bob Dylan. “I was thinking about all these things to say and ask. I was choosing my outfit. I’m meeting Bob Dylan today!” she declared, before realizing that the meeting was, in fact, with Timothée Chalamet. “I'm probably the first person in life to be disappointed by a rehearsal with Timothée Chalamet, right?”