He never stops talking about him. While he has just completed the promotional tour for
Dune: Part II
, in which he plays the main role, Timothée Chalamet is already back on the film sets. On April 15, the 28-year-old actor was filmed in Mountainside, New Jersey, on the set of the biopic
A complete Unknow
, dedicated to Bob Dylan.
A Bob Dylan larger than life
In a 30-second amateur video posted on X (formerly Twitter), the physically transformed multi-award winning actor stands behind a microphone alongside actress Monica Barbaro, who plays Joan Baez. The duo plays a few guitar notes and sings, before Timothée Chalamet begins a harmonica solo. And if the actor had already been seen in the skin of the folk legend, this was the first sequence in which he was to sing. An exercise that he will be required to repeat, the director of this musical, James Mangold, having revealed that Timothée Chalamet would himself perform the most emblematic titles of the sixties icon.
In March, the man who also played Willy in
Wonka
was spotted, disguised as a Bob Dylan from the 1960s, in the streets of New York. Guitar case in hand, yellow bag on his back, mustard scarf casually wrapped around his neck and beret on his head, he was a near-perfect replica of the original.
A delayed filming
Announced four years ago, the film had to be delayed due to the Covid crisis. It was not until the summer of 2023 that filming was finally restarted.
A complete Unknow
will trace Bob Dylan's youth, from his arrival in New York at the age of 19 and his beginnings as a folk singer, to his status as a rock star.