Oscar Nominee Tod Maitland Recalls “Pleasant Surprise” Of Timothée Chalamet Channeling Bob Dylan, Teases Bruce Springsteen-Based ‘Deliver Me From Nowhere’
deadline.comAfter investing more than five years perfecting his Bob Dylan chops as A Complete Unknown wound its way to production, Timothée Chalamet saved his most persuasive performance for the film’s crew.
Production audio mixed Tod Maitland, part of the team nominated for an Oscar for Best Sound for the film, recalled the star coming to him 10 minutes before a key scene started shooting at New York’s Carnegie Hall. “He said, ‘I’m going live,’” Maitland recalled.
The idea had surfaced during rehearsals, but once the decision was made at the start of the 53-day shoot, decades’ worth of moviemaking customs was dispensed with in a flash.
Everyone behind the camera, including director James Mangold, recognized they were entering uncharted waters. ‘We threw away all those [pre-recorded] tracks,” Maitland added. “We never had one timing mechanism, we had no earpieces.
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