Timothee Chalamet Sings on Bob Dylan’s “Total Unknown” Team

Timothée Chalamet won critical acclaim and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for his performance as a young Bob Dylan. Completely unknownthe film team recalls seeing the transformation firsthand.

At Tuesday’s Los Angeles premiere, director James Mangold told The hollywood reporter “Before he even agreed,” he knew Chalamet was the right choice to play the iconic musician because “he’s got unparalleled acting skills, he’s got the youth, he’s got the looks, he’s got the coolness, and I thought he would Singing, but I was amazed by his singing skills.

Producer Peter Jason also expressed his appreciation for the actor’s musical abilities. He remembers recording Dylan performing his hit song “Like a Rolling Stone” before Chalamet arrived on set. “We had a band recording the song, and we were watching on the screen as Dylan sang with our band the original standalone version of ‘Like a Rolling Stone’ that he had recorded,” he recalls. “Then Timmy came in and sang, [Mangold and music producer Nick Baxter] Let’s close our eyes and they start switching between Bob Dylan and Timothée Chalamet; we can’t tell the difference. We knew then that we had something special.

Completely unknown It tells the story of Dylan’s career from 1961 to 1965, when he entered the folk music scene and quickly shocked the entire folk music world, including Pete Seeger (Edward Norton), Joan Baez (Monica Barba) Rowe) and Johnny Cash (Boyd Holbrook) appear.

“We wanted more Bob, more Pete, more Joan than the movie could accommodate,” Norton told reporters on the carpet, with Chalamet adding, “We’re like Jim is a threat because we are always trying to sneak things away.

Dylan himself was involved in the script development process and met with Mangold several times to make revisions. “He was very candid and honest about those times and those days and his memories of them,” Mangold said of their collaboration. “He read the script cover to cover and marked it, telling me, ‘Oh, I’ve never sung that verse like that,’ and corrected a few little things: ‘This guy always calls me Bobby instead of Bob. He was all about it.

However, Dylan was not involved in the filming process, Mangold adds, “In a way, he let us run free. He saw the map I was following and let me ride.

Barbaro, who doesn’t play guitar or sing before the movie begins, transforms into Baez herself, and when she’s on the phone with the musician she plays, she also interacts with a legend. “I felt so lucky that she was willing to give me that time, and she was so gracious. I admired her, I loved her, and then I hung up the phone and started sobbing.

Barbaro also called singing with Chalamet “one of the best things I’ve ever done in my entire career.” His voice is inherently beautiful. Wonka When it came out while we were filming, I was like ‘Oh, wow, he can really sing. And then hearing his version of Bob was so exciting.

Completely unknown Releases December 25th.