Timothée Chalamet will be looking to take his acting to the next level and surprise us all by playing Bob Dylan in the new biopic of the musician. However, achieving this will be no easy task, as the role will not only a great commitment from the young actor but also an enormous histrionic capacity that will allow him to capture Dylan’s essence.
That’s why Timothée has wasted no time in getting down to work, undergoing rigorous physical, vocal, and emotional preparation to achieve his goal. Chalamet recently revealed in an interview for GQ that the preparation to become Bob Dylan in the James Mangold-directed biopic has been painstaking.
Timothée Chalamet reveals he is training to play Bob Dylan with Austin Butler's 'Elvis' team:
“I’ve basically been working with his entire Elvis team for my Dylan prep. I just saw the way [Butler] committed to it all, and realised I needed to step it up.” pic.twitter.com/RFH7zyAk8W
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Timothée Chalamet’s Preparation to Become Bob Dylan
Timothée Chalamet explained that to achieve it, he turned to the same team that helped Austin Butler become Elvis, a transformation that undoubtedly left us all with our mouths open in 2022.
He also detailed that her team consists of a dialect teacher, a vocal coach, and a movement coach. “I realized that I needed to step up. You need your ability to imagine, your ability to observe, and your ability to experiment. And if any of those are compromised, your ability to create is compromised in some way,” he said.
Another thing the 27-year-old actor has done to enhance his performance is to revisit the musician’s life through the book Chronicles of Dylan.
When Will A Complete Unknown, the Bob Dylan Biopic, Be Released?
A Complete Unknown, the biopic that will tell the story of Bob Dylan, does not yet have an official release date. However, the film is expected to hit theaters sometime in 2024.
Keep this film on your radar, as it looks like Timothée Chalamet could earn an Oscar nomination.
This story was written in Spanish by Mariana Martell in Cultura Colectiva
