‘A Complete Unknown’s Monica Barbaro On Finally Meeting The “Thoughtful And Wonderful” Joan Baez And A Sweet Moment With Ariana Grande
deadline.comLast week, Monica Barbaro met Joan Baez in person for the first time. For Barbaro, this was a big step in an extraordinary journey that first began in 2020, back when Barbaro couldn’t play guitar at all, but sang at her audition to play Baez in James Mangold’s Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown.
Fast-forward five years, and Barbaro has successfully, and beautifully, embodied Baez’s story and performed her music—with the Oscar and SAG nominations to prove it.
She’d spoken with Baez on the phone before, right before shooting a scene where she would perform “Blowin’ in the Wind” opposite Timothée Chalamet as Dylan.
But now, at last, the two women have met at Baez’s San Francisco concert on February 8th. Here, as she wraps up shooting on Bart Layton’s new heist movie Crime 101, in which she stars alongside Jennifer Jason Leigh, Chris Hemsworth and Barry Keoghan, Barbaro reveals her experience of playing, and then meeting, a musical icon, and how Mangold, Chalamet, and Baez herself fed her performance. DEADLINE: Last time we spoke it was Oscar nominations day.
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