'I’ve seen some disbelief and regret about this, but I think it’s a bit of impeccable casting, and frankly can’t wait for hot, dumb, brooding Dylan.' togglecoat on the casting of Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan
Photo: Getty Images Timothée Chalamet will play another vainglorious fuckboy with bedhead. This time it’s Bob Dylan. James Mangold will direct Chalamet as young Dylan “during the period when he was poised to become folk music’s most seminal figure,” according to Deadline. I’ve seen some disbelief and regret about this, but I think it’s a bit of impeccable casting, and frankly can’t wait for hot, dumb, brooding Dylan, a total thrill akin to doing coke off a harmonica. I imagine.
Dylan, a highly self-styled and protean performer whose career spans many decades, can of course be played all kinds of ways. Todd Haynes’s 2007 film I’m Not There, in which multiple actors play the folk legend, is a testament to this — most memorably Cate Blanchett portraying Dylan from the same era Chalamet will conjure: as a symbol of youth, precocity, and protest in the ’60s.
But if you have Chalamet in mind while watching the original tape of that interview, you will see Dylan name-drop, deflect, and pout like Timmy when he plays the archetype of a skinny, dilettante high-school crush named Kyle in Lady Bird. At times Dylan stares moodily into the middle distance as if at something he is afraid to desire, like Chalamet’s Elio does in Call Me by Your Name.
In the interview, Dylan is tongue-tied at so tranquilized a pace he nearly comes off as prophetic. A reporter asks if he has any plans to do films. “No, I do have plans to make a film, but not because anybody said I should do them.” Another reporter asks him which director the folk star “digs.” His pat yet bratty response: “Truffaut. Uh, I really can’t think of any more people.” He even fusses and fidgets like a Chalamet, touching his face when he laughs or deliberates.
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