Pete Seeger, played by actor Edward Norton, on a missing poster with Bob Dylan, played by Timothee Chalamet, walking in the background.
A Complete Unknown is easily one of Timothée Chalamet’s best roles with the impressive work he does in transforming into Bob Dylan. But the biopic extends beyond Dylan, and one memorable real life figure is folk music legend and activist Pete Seeger, in a warm performance by Edward Norton. Seeger helped Dylan get his big break, but the relationship between them soon grows increasingly fraught over the young singer’s shift away from traditional folk music.
Related 'A Complete Unknown' Brings "Shelter from the Storm" as Bob Dylan Biopic Hits New Highs at the Box Office The movie comes from 'Walk the Line' director James Mangold. The Real Life Music Festival in ‘A Complete Unknown’ Was Unruly for a Different Reason Close Al Kooper, who performed with Dylan and is played by Charlie Tahan in the film, explained that many young fans in the audience had arrived to hear Dylan, not the other performers. “Well, they went nuts,” Kooper said, “Not ’cause he played electric. But because they’d paid all this money and spent all this time and suffered all this other music, and heard 15 minutes of Bob Dylan, and they went nuts.
Pete Seeger Continued His Activism After 1965 According to The Guardian, Seeger faced a different kind of setback that didn’t include Dylan. His performance on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in 1967 was censored by CBS due to the song, “Waist Deep in the Big Muddy," where he criticized President Lyndon B. Johnson and the escalation of the Vietnam War. It was only after heavy protesting that the performance aired, months later.
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