A complete stranger, behind the scenes of a highly anticipated film

In 2016, American author Elijah Wald received an offer to buy the rights to his work entitled Electric Bob Dylan , with this subtitle « Newport 1965, from folk to rock, story of a coup d'état » (Rivages, “Red”), published only a year earlier. On the other end of the line, Jeff Rosen, Bob Dylan's manager since the late 1990s. « My first reaction was : why do they need me since they have Dylan himself on hand ? », recalls the now sixty-year-old, whom we reached by telephone at his home on the east coast of the United States. « Maybe it's because my book tells a story : that of Dylan and Pete Seeger in a way that it had never been told before. They took that idea, but they invented a parallel reality bringing the two men together in the same room. I think it’s a great way to adapt the book for the screen.