The world needs a new Bob Dylan, in an era that has become “cynical”, Timothée Chalamet told AFP on Thursday, on tour in Paris to promote a biopic “A complete unknown”. “), where he interprets the folk legend.
Asked four days before Donald Trump’s inauguration to know if he had plunged with nostalgia into the 1960s, where many artists like Dylan or Joan Baez (Monica Barbaro in the film) were committed to civil rights, the 29-year-old Franco-American superstar drew comparison with his own generation.
“I think if there’s any nostalgia, it’s that in the 1960s, this kind of music and artists, like Bob Dylan, Joan Baez or (author) James Baldwin had no precedent “, he replied.
They believed “that things could change and that art could change a political aspect or a cultural attitude,” he continued. “Today there is a stronger cynicism. For the young American, French and also global generation, the obstacles are perhaps more intense than in the 1960s, the environmental or political obstacles.
-“It would be good for a figure like Dylan to jump (appear, Editor’s note), but, there too, there is cynicism… If someone launches an ethical, optimistic song, we will think that there is a side “corporate” type”, that he does it in his own interest.
The actor spoke in French, his father’s language, explaining that his practice needed a few days to unwind.
Star of “Dune” and “Wonka”, Timothée Chalamet is one of the personalities most followed by the celebrity press and social networks. They missed neither his arrival on Tuesday at the London premiere of the film on the handlebars of a self-service bicycle, nor his embraces with his companion Kylie Jenner during the last Golden Globes.
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