Timothée Chalamet is absolutely embracing his position of Bob Dylan as filming on the A Full Unknown biopic formally begins.
Chalamet, 28, was noticed filming the upcoming film in New York Metropolis on Sunday, March 17, the place he fully channeled Dylan, 82. Chalamet obtained into character in a pair of denims, a brown jacket and a chunky scarf. His trademark curly locks had been hidden beneath a newsboy cap.
Whereas filming, Chalamet wore a rucksack on his again whereas holding a guitar case and a small pocket book in every hand. He wistfully seemed off into the space whereas strolling down the road.
A Full Unknown, charting Dylan’s rise to changing into one of many high singer-songwriters, shall be directed by James Mangold.
“It’s such an incredible time in American tradition and the story of Bob, a younger 19-year-old Bob Dylan coming to New York with $2 in his pocket and changing into a worldwide sensation inside three years first being embraced and sort of into the household of people music in New York,” Mangold, 60, advised Collider in April 2023. “After which in fact, sort of out operating them at a sure level as his star rises. It’s so past perception, it’s such an attention-grabbing true story and about such an attention-grabbing second in America, the American scene, totally different characters from Woody Guthrie to Bob Dylan, to Pete Seeger, to Joan Baez. All have a task to play on this film.”
Mangold additional teased that Chalamet will sing in A Full Unknown after beforehand exhibiting off his vocal chops in 2023’s Wonka, the Charlie and the Chocolate Manufacturing facility prequel concerning the fictional chocolatier.
Whereas Chalamet is simply beginning to movie A Full Unknown, he’s been gearing up for the position for years.
“I haven’t stopped making ready, which has been one of many biggest presents for me,” the actor advised Selection in November 2022. “It’s been a beautiful expertise attending to dive into that world, whether or not we get to make it or not.”
He continued, “However with out giving something away — as a result of I don’t need to beat anybody to the punch, and clearly issues have to return collectively formally — the winds which can be blowing are blowing in a really optimistic route.”
A Full Unknown has additionally been endorsed by Dylan himself.
“I’ve spent a number of, splendidly charming, days in his firm, simply one-on-one, speaking to him,” Mangold stated on the “Joyful Unhappy Confused” podcast in July 2023. “I’ve a script that’s personally annotated by him and treasured by me. He loves films. The primary time I sat down with Bob, one of many first issues he stated to me was, ‘I really like [your movie] Cop Land.’”