Bob Dylan acted out his entire role in ‘A Complete Unknown’ before he approved the biopic’s script

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Bob Dylan acted out the part of himself in A Complete Unknown before he gave his backing to the biopic’s script.Although the lead role eventually went to Timothée Chalamet, the singer-songwriter’s input into the film was so great that he went right through the script with director James Mangold, according to producer Peter Jaysen.Speaking on The Town podcast, he said: “He met with Jim Mangold multiple times.

At one point they sat there and they read the entire script out loud, with Jim Mangold reading every part and stage direction, and Bob Dylan only reading lines of dialogue for himself.

Through that process, [Dylan] sat there writing notes on the script. At the end of the last session with Jim Mangold, he signed the script and said, ‘Go with God.'”Although Dylan “did not have final cut,” Jaysen said Dylan’s involvement was significant.It comes after Chalamet previously confirmed that Dylan went through the screenplay, line by line. “Jim has an annotated Bob script lying around somewhere,” he said. “I’ll beg him to get my hands on it.

He’ll never give it to me.”“I felt like Bob just wanted to know what I was up to,” Mangold added. “ ‘Who is this guy? Is he a shithead?