Timothée Chalamet's dedication to portraying Bob Dylan in the upcoming biopic 'A Complete Unknown' is evident in his commitment to singing and playing the songs live on set. Director James Mangold shared how Chalamet's performance gave him and the crew chills.
The 29-year-old actor practically channels the music legend as a burgeoning star in the early 1960s, transforming his shaggy locks to resemble Dylan's hairstyle and adopting Dylan's signature nasally speaking and singing style. It was important for me to sing and play live. Because if I can actually do it, why should there be an element of artifice here? And I’m proud that we took that leap,” Chalamet said.
Chalamet not only sang all of Dylan's song for the film — he actually performed the songs live on camera, giving James Mangold, the movie's director, and others on the set 'chills', Mangold told an audience at the WGA during a post-screening in Beverly Hills this month. Originally, pre-recorded Dylan's vocals were planned, revealed Mangold, but the actor wanted to take a stab as performing live in character during an early scene depicting Dylan and Woody Guthrie (Scoot McNairy). “We shot that in the first five or six days,” Mangold recalled. “And there was a whole backstage thing with Timmy saying, ‘I want to try it live.’” Mangold said his suggestion was met with some skepticism. “Some of the sound and music direction people were like, ‘It’s not a good idea,'' Mangold said. But he opted to allow Chalamet to give it a shot. “And he was phenomenal. Not only that, he proved the brilliance of the method,” said the director. “There’s this moment where he finishes that song and he holds a note and just keeps hitting the low string on the guitar over and over again, and he’s just his eyes are kind of boring into Woody, and he’s just holding this note, and it gave him chills,' Mangold recalled. “I remember sitting there eight feet from him as he did it, and I remember thinking, ‘Holy s---.’ That could not have happened if there was an earwig in his ear,' he added
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