Timothée Chalamet details ’emotional and grand’ role in new biopic

Timothée Chalamet just explained how he was able to portray the late icon, Bob Dylan, so effortlessly.

Already labelled as the big biopic, A Complete Unknown, revolves around the life of the folk and rock legend.

As per his conversation with OK! Magazine, the actor renowned for his roles films like Dune and Wonka, Chalamet revealed that he decided to immerse himself in the character of Dylan, who is also known as one of the greatest songwriters of all time.

He detailed how he prepared for the role for five years, by singing as well as playing guitar live, while filming, however, it came naturally to him since he himself was a Bob Dylan fan.

“And that’s not unique to me,” he said at the international press conference on Zoom from New York.

Chalamet continued, “That’s why there are millions of Bob Dylan fans all over the globe — because this music, while relatable, which has had a mass success over the last decades, is also really deeply poetic and emotional and grand.”

“It’s a fabulous thing for a young artist like myself to dive into over the course of my twenties. He’s just the greatest artist and musician to learn from,” he further mentioned.

The 29-year-old deemed his interest in Dylan and his life as an “obsession” and told the outlet, “That was simply the gift of how much time I had to work on this project and, I guess, not work on it; just to be in it and to live in it.”

“The whole process was more than five years. It was before Covid, during Covid and afterwards. If you prepare for a role over the span of two or three months, then I would say it qualifies as research. With this, I had so much time, so I could really breathe the experience,” he detailed.

Timothée Chalamet also got help from home to fuel his passion, as he also revealed, “A friend of my father’s growing up was a Dylan-head.”

“He was Dylan obsessed. I don’t even think I heard any of his music. I just knew this one friend of my father’s, called Larry, was really infatuated with Bob Dylan and his lyricism — and he had a huge black and white portrait of him in his apartment. That was very striking,” he concluded.

For the unversed, the Timothée Chalamet starrer, A Complete Unknown, was released on December 25, 2024.