How Timothée Chalamet mastered the music of Bob Dylan in ‘A Complete Unknown’: ‘I was floored’

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“A Complete Unknown,” which opens in theaters on Christmas Day, Timothée Chalamet undergoes a complete transformation as Bob Dylan.

And when he performs early Bard classics such as “It Ain’t Me Babe,” it is very much the 28-year-old actor doing his own singing and playing on guitar and harmonica — after five years of studying to master the music of the folk-rock legend.“When I first got together with Tim, I heard some of the stuff they had prerecorded, and I said, ‘Who’s singing this stuff?’” Rob Paparozzi, Chalamet’s harmonica coach on “A Complete Unknown,” told The Post. “He said, ‘That’s me.

I’m singing all my own parts.’ I was floored, you know, because I was so impressed … Timmy had already put in some time and committed to this.

So it wasn’t like he just wanted to fake this thing.”In fact, Chalamet so totally nailed the assignment that he performed live during filming rather than singing to the prerecorded music.“The prerecords are very necessary, and they work well,” said vocal coach Eric Vetro, “but the fact that he could just go into it so easily and everything would fall into place every time, like he had been [doing] it his whole life, I thought they’re gonna want to do this live.” After working with Chalamet on 2023’s “Wonka,” Vetro was recruited by the actor again for “A Complete Unknown.”“Because he was already very steeped in the world of Dylan, my job was more to keep his voice healthy, make sure he always warmed up, make sure he knew how to use his voice properly so he wouldn’t wear it out or get hoarse,” he said. “So that was my concern, because he already had a good inkling of how to do Dylan.” But in addition to keeping his voice in shape, Vetro helped Chalamet hit the right notes in his Dylan.