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Timothée Chalamet has remodeled into Bob Dylan for the forthcoming biopic, A Full Unknown.
The 28-year-old, identified for Dune and Little Ladies, stars because the music legend in James Mangold’s new movie, primarily based on Elijah Wald’s 2015 guide Dylan Goes Electrical! in regards to the controversy surrounding Dylan’s change to electrically amplified instrumentation in 1965.
Within the first teaser trailer for the movie, launched on Wednesday (July 24), Chalamet is seen singing Dylan’s 1962 monitor “A Arduous Rain’s A-Gonna Fall.”
“I wanna inform you a bit of story. A number of months again, my good friend Woody Guthrie and I, we met a younger man,” Edward Norton – because the late Pete Seeger – tells a crowd. “He dropped in on us out of nowhere and he performed us a music. In that second, we acquired a sense we have been getting a glimpse of the long run.”
Wearing a brown suede jacket and sporting Dylan’s signature curly coiffure, Chalamet’s Dylan begins strumming a guitar earlier than launching into the music’s intro: “Oh, the place have you ever been, my blue-eyed son?/ And the place have you ever been, my darling younger one?”
As he sings, scenes flash of him strolling round New York Metropolis, making eye contact with an early fictional love curiosity Sylvie Russo (performed by Elle Fanning) and later kissing Monica Barbaro as famed singer Joan Baez, Dylan’s ex-girlfriend.
Following the discharge of the trailer, followers have flocked to social media to heap reward on Chalamet’s portrayal of Dylan.
“He sounds identical to him!” one particular person tweeted, with a second agreeing: “We’re in for a deal with, Chalamet sounds identical to Dylan.”
“Peak Timothée Chalamet,” a 3rd claimed. Even these not sure in regards to the casting counseled Chalamet’s vocals.
“Higher than anticipated, has some early 00s Stroll the Line vibes,” one particular person mentioned, referencing the 2005 biopic in regards to the rise of nation star Johnny Money.
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One other predicted that Chalamet will obtain an Oscar nomintion for the half, with another person asking: “Is there something Timothée Chalamet can’t do?”
Chalamet’s casting as Dylan was first introduced in 2020. On the time, it was reported that the Dune actor was taking guitar classes in preparation for the position, with Mangold additionally confirming that Chalamet will do his personal singing within the movie.
In a earlier interview with GQ, Chalamet revealed that earlier than filming, he sought recommendation from Joel Coen, one half of the directing duo often known as the Coen Brothers.
Chalamet mentioned he was invited over for dinner at Coen’s home, the place he was capable of query the director about his in depth analysis on Dylan for 2013’s Inside Llewyn Davis, which was set within the folks music scene of the Nineteen Sixties the place the singer started his profession. Dylan additionally briefly appeared as a personality performing within the movie.
“[Coen] virtually appeared weary of even speaking about these items, it was so huge and potent,” Chalamet defined. He went on to recall how Coen had argued that the sheer amount of labor Dylan produced through the early years of his profession is what made him so singular.
A Full Unknown is scheduled for a theatrical launch in December; a precise date is but to be introduced.
