Bob Dylan Praises Timothée Chalamet as a ‘Brilliant Actor’: ‘He’s Going to Be Completely Believable as Me’
variety.comEthan Shanfeld For the first time, Bob Dylan has publicly acknowledged the upcoming biopic about his early years in New York, “A Complete Unknown,” which stars Timothée Chalamet as the young folk music legend. “There’s a movie about me opening soon called A Complete Unknown (what a title!).
Timothee Chalamet is starring in the lead role. Timmy’s a brilliant actor so I’m sure he’s going to be completely believable as me.
Or a younger me. Or some other me,” Dylan wrote on X, a platform on which he has recently become active. He continued, “The film’s taken from Elijah Wald’s Dylan Goes Electric – a book that came out in 2015.
It’s a fantastic retelling of events from the early ‘60s that led up to the fiasco at Newport. After you’ve seen the movie read the book.” Dylan’s social media post implies that he has not yet seen “A Complete Unknown,” which received positive first reactions from journalists and film influencers.
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