How Timothee Chalamet became obsessed with Bob Dylan & even changed how he shaved in epic film that should win him Oscar
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BEFORE Dune, before Wonka, before he met girlfriend Kylie Jenner, Timothée Chalamet signed up for his most challenging role . . . . . . to play a young Bob Dylan in the biopic A Complete Unknown. “Once I was in it, there was no coming back,” Chalamet affirmed in the film’s production notes. “I was fully in the Church of Bob.”.
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Last night, the 29-year-old box-office sensation, dressed in a smart dark navy suit, attended the UK premiere at London’s BFI Southbank — but without his high-profile, super-glam partner Jenner. Also on the red carpet were director James Mangold, who cut his biopic teeth on Johnny Cash flick Walk The Line, Elle Fanning, who portrays Dylan’s passionately political girlfriend, and Edward Norton, who is convincing as straitlaced folkie Pete Seeger.
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The event marked the culmin-ation of a six-year journey for the film’s principal star that could and SHOULD land him his first Oscar. Back in 2019, Chalamet, then 23, jumped at the role but production was stalled first by the pandemic and then the Screenwriters Guild of America strike.
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But this meant he could fully immerse himself in the intriguing story of how a baby-faced, 19-year-old Dylan left his home state of Minnesota in 1961 and pitched up in New York City with five dollars in his pocket and an acoustic guitar in his hand. The film charts Bob’s rapid rise to becoming “the voice of a generation” with protest anthems such as Blowin’ In The Wind, The Times They Are A-Changin’ and Masters Of War.
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