Here’s the Best Preview Yet of Timothee Chalamet’s Bob Dylan
The newest trailer for A Complete Unknown provides followers the most full sneak peek but into Timothee Chalamet’s portrayal of Bob Dylan.
The just-released clip from James Mangold’s upcoming biopic finds Dylan arriving in New York, the place he meets fellow singer Joan Baez (Monica Barbaro), will get concerned in a love triangle after which decides to desert folks music. Along the approach, Chalamet might be heard singing Dylan favorites like “Girl From the North Country” and “Like a Rolling Stone.”
There’s additionally footage depicting Dylan and Baez duetting at the Monterey Folk Festival in 1963. As a romance sparks, the exchanges with Baez show to be notably spicy: “Your songs are like an oil painting at the dentist’s office,” Chalamet’s character says. Barbaro’s Baez then responds: “You’re kind of an asshole, Bob.”
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Dylan additionally turns into concerned with Sylvie Russo, a fictionalized model of Suze Rotolo performed by Elle Fanning. (Rotolo would memorably seem on the album cowl of 1963’s The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan.) He meets hero Pete Seeger (Edward Norton) and Johnny Cash (Boyd Holbrook), too.
Mangold’s movie was primarily based on Elijah Wald’s 2015 guide Dylan Goes Electric!, and that call provides the trailer its pressure. Record label figures specific confusion whereas his tradition-bound fanbase reacts in anger.
A Complete Unknown is ready to premiere on Dec. 25. Dylan himself supplied notes on the script: “I’ve spent several wonderfully charming days in his company, just one-on-one, talking to him,” Mangold said on the Happy Sad Confused podcast. “I’ve a script that is personally annotated by him and treasured by me.”
This new footage follows a short teaser released in July. The Complete Unknown cast also includes Scoot McNairy as Woody Guthrie and Dan Fogler as Albert Grossman, among others.
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