Hollywood vocal coach reveals how he trained Timothée Chalamet for Bob Dylan role

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Timothée Chalamet for his role as Bob Dylan in upcoming biopic A Complete Unknown.In an interview with Rolling Stone published yesterday (December 7), Vetro – who previously worked with Austin Butler for Elvis, and is currently working with Jeremy Allen White for his upcoming role as Bruce Springsteen – spoke at length about Chalamet, with whom he also worked on Wonka.Vetro revealed that, in preparation for his job, the vocal coach listened to Dylan to analyse the “nasality of his voice” and “the way he pronounces his words”.“I find it so interesting that he sounds young and simultaneously old at the same time,” he said of Dylan. “Even when he was young, he has that energy of an old soul.”On beginning work with Chalamet for the Dylan movie, he said: “We would do normal exercises that I would give to anyone just to strengthen their voice, widen their range.

That’s how we would start,” with a focus on Dylan’s nasal.“Then we would start bringing him into probably a little bit more what you would call front-nasal exercises,” he continued, adding that he would imagine how the singer-songwriter would participate in a voice lesson like that. “How would he feel about it?

Would he want to do it? Would he be into it?” Vetro also worked with Monica Barbaro to portray Joan Baez in the film.“I was always about finding the right balance of getting enough of that sound to sound like Bob Dylan, but not let it get into the realm of being a caricature of him,” he added.On Chalamet’s transformation into Dylan, he revealed that the actor “would just start talking like Bob” and that it “would just happen very naturally”.“I remember the first day he walked in with a guitar and he had the harmonica holder around his neck.