Bob Dylan Weighs In On Timothée Chalamet In ‘A Complete Unknown’

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At the Gotham Awards last weekend, Timothée Chalamet called the five years he’s spent prepping to play Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown “the greatest education a young artist could receive.” Chalamet’s Dune co-star Oscar Isaac put the stakes of the performance more succinctly. “I mean it’s Dylan — the Holy of Holies,” Isaac said at the Gothams.

Isaac is not unfamiliar with the terrain, having played a Dylan-adjacent folk singer in the Coen Brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis.

Now, the Holy of Holies himself has weighed in on Chalamet’s efforts in director James Mangold’s upcoming film. In a post on X, Dylan offered a surprisingly positive but typically elliptical assessment. “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,” the Grammy, Oscar and Nobel Prize winner wrote. RELATED: Set Photos Of Timothée Chalamet As Bob Dylan & Elle Fanning As Sylvie Russo In ‘A Complete Unknown’ Dylan also endorsed the book on which the film is based. “The film’s taken from Elijah Wald’s Dylan Goes Electric – a book that came out in 2015.