Interesting read, from Rolling Stone:
Timothée Chalamet Was ‘Relentless’ in Trying to Stay Immersed as Bob Dylan, Says Edward Norton: ‘No Visitors, No Friends, No Reps. Nobody
Comes Around Us While We’re Doing This’

Elle Fanning told Rolling Stone as part of its new Timothée Chalamet
cover story that she was warned before filming “A Complete Unknown” that Chalamet would mostly “keep to himself” on set while playing Bob Dylan.
In order to become the music icon, Chalamet tried his hardest to stay
immersed in Dylan’s shoes, so much so that the call sheet referred to Chalamet as “Bob Dylan” and not as his real name. Fanning got tricked in pre-production when she was invited to meet with director James Mangold
and “Bob.”
“I was thinking about all these things to say and ask,” Fanning said
about the prospect of meeting with the real Dylan. “I was picking out my outfit. ‘I’m meeting Bob Dylan today!’”
Then Fanning went to set and discovered that “Bob Dylan” as listed was actually Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan. She wisecracked: “I’m probably the first person in life to be let down by having a rehearsal with
Timothée Chalamet, right? Like, the first girl in history.”

Monica Barbaro plays Joan Baez in “A Complete Unknown” and told Rolling Stone that she first met Chalamet when he was already Bob Dylan.
“It wasn’t so full-on,” Barbaro said of Chalamet’s Method acting. “It wasn’t ‘Don’t look him in the eye’ or anything like that. We said hi, gave each other a hug. I was like, ‘I just saw Dune!’ [But Chalamet did stay] in his own world [on set] in a way that I think Bob often was as
well. And it was actually really conducive to the dynamic between Bob
and Joan.”
Barbaro remembered there was one day when the she was chatting with
Chalamet about everyday things in between takes, only for Mangold to
note that Chalamet’s Dylan voice was starting to slip. “And at that
point I think we both were just like, ‘Nope, no more talking!’” she recalled.
Edward Norton stars in the film as Pete Seeger and says Chalamet was “relentless” in making sure he could stay immersed as Dylan, adding: “No visitors, no friends, no reps, no nothing. ‘Nobody comes around us while we’re doing this.’ We’re trying to do the best we can with something that’s so totemic and sacrosanct to many people. And I agreed totally —
it was like, we cannot have a fucking audience for this. We’ve got to
believe to the greatest degree we can. And he was right to be that protective.”
Chalamet did not get into full detail about his Method acting during the Rolling Stone interview, but he did admit that staying immersed as the character was in part a desire to return to his acting roots and to a
time “when people aren’t curious about how you go about your work,
because they don’t know who you are yet. Which is how the experience was
for me on ‘Call Me by Your Name.’”
“It was something I would go to sleep panicked about: losing a moment of discovery as the character — no matter how pretentious that sounds — because I was on my phone or because of any distraction,” Chalamet
added. “I had three months of my life to play Bob Dylan, after five
years of preparing to play him. So while I was in it, that was my
eternal focus. He deserved that and then more.… God forbid I missed a
step because I was being Timmy. I could be Timmy for the rest of my
life!”

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cpyle4bob wrote:
Interesting read, from Rolling Stone:
Timoth�e Chalamet Was `Relentless� in Trying to Stay Immersed as

Bob

Dylan, Says Edward Norton: `No Visitors, No Friends, No Reps.

Nobody

Comes Around Us While We�re Doing This�

Elle Fanning told Rolling Stone as part of its new Timoth�e

Chalamet

cover story that she was warned before filming "A Complete

Unknown" that

Chalamet would mostly "keep to himself" on set while

playing Bob Dylan.

In order to become the music icon, Chalamet tried his hardest to

stay

immersed in Dylan�s shoes, so much so that the call sheet referred

to

Chalamet as "Bob Dylan" and not as his real name. Fanning

got tricked in

pre-production when she was invited to meet with director James

Mangold

and "Bob."
"I was thinking about all these things to say and ask,"

Fanning said

about the prospect of meeting with the real Dylan. "I was

picking out my

outfit. `I�m meeting Bob Dylan today!�"
Then Fanning went to set and discovered that "Bob Dylan"

as listed was

actually Timoth�e Chalamet as Bob Dylan. She wisecracked: "I�m

probably

the first person in life to be let down by having a rehearsal with
Timoth�e Chalamet, right? Like, the first girl in history."

Monica Barbaro plays Joan Baez in "A Complete Unknown"

and told Rolling

Stone that she first met Chalamet when he was already Bob Dylan.
"It wasn�t so full-on," Barbaro said of Chalamet�s Method

acting. "It

wasn�t `Don�t look him in the eye� or anything like that. We said

hi,

gave each other a hug. I was like, `I just saw Dune!� [But Chalamet

did

stay] in his own world [on set] in a way that I think Bob often was

as

well. And it was actually really conducive to the dynamic between

Bob

and Joan."
Barbaro remembered there was one day when the she was chatting

with

Chalamet about everyday things in between takes, only for Mangold

to

note that Chalamet�s Dylan voice was starting to slip. "And at

that

point I think we both were just like, `Nope, no more

talking!�" she

recalled.
Edward Norton stars in the film as Pete Seeger and says Chalamet

was

"relentless" in making sure he could stay immersed as

Dylan, adding: "No

visitors, no friends, no reps, no nothing. `Nobody comes around us

while

we�re doing this.� We�re trying to do the best we can with

something

that�s so totemic and sacrosanct to many people. And I agreed

totally -

it was like, we cannot have a f***ing audience for this. We�ve got

to

believe to the greatest degree we can. And he was right to be that protective."
Chalamet did not get into full detail about his Method acting

during the

Rolling Stone interview, but he did admit that staying immersed as

the

character was in part a desire to return to his acting roots and to

a

time "when people aren�t curious about how you go about your

work,

because they don�t know who you are yet. Which is how the

experience was

for me on `Call Me by Your Name.�"
"It was something I would go to sleep panicked about: losing a

moment of

discovery as the character - no matter how pretentious that sounds

-

because I was on my phone or because of any distraction,"

Chalamet

added. "I had three months of my life to play Bob Dylan, after

five

years of preparing to play him. So while I was in it, that was my
eternal focus. He deserved that and then more.... God forbid I

missed a

step because I was being Timmy. I could be Timmy for the rest of

my

life!"

Really looking forward to seeing this movie.


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