Timothée Chalamet didn't think twice about Bob Dylan role - but took five years to perfect it

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Wonka star Timothée Chalamet has told of the incredible lengths he went to in order to portray Bob Dylan in an eagerly anticipated movie about the song legend's life - starting with a crash course on who he was playing.Chalamet, 28, who has become one of Hollywood's hottest properties, didn't think twice about taking the role in A Complete Unknown.

He spent five years learning how to play harmonica and guitar, and mimicked Dylan on all the songs in the film so perfectly that his co-stars thought he was miming.But the actor who is the cover star in the latest issue of Rolling Stone magazine admitted he had a lot of studying to do at first.Chalamet said: "I had to learn how famous he was in the 60s and 70s."For the film, the Dune actor is transformed into a dead ringer for a young Dylan.As a fan of hip-hop, Chalamet knew very little about the songwriter before taking on the role.

But he said he very quickly became a "devoted disciple in the church of Bob".Chalamet, who is dating the youngest of the Kardashian sisters, Kylie Jenner, said: "When I got approached with this project six years ago, Bob Dylan was this name I knew was held in reverence and I knew I was supposed to respect."If you were in the in-crowd that's a name you get behind but, truthfully, I didn't know anything about it."I'm happy I took five or six years because I'm now in that Church of Bob.

I'm a humble disciple and I feel I've got this opportunity to kind of be a bridge to this music."And he added: "This was taking on someone who maybe to my generation isn't impersonated to death but to the previous generation is the most."I thought, I need to worry less about how Bob Dylan would eat a bagel and capture the spirit of this guy."To do so, Chalamet worked