Timothée Chalamet & Edward Norton Tried To “Sneak Stuff” Into ‘A Complete Unknown’ To Honor Bob Dylan & Pete Seeger (Exclusive)

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In A Complete Unknown, Timothée Chalamet and co-star Edward Norton made an effort to include as many nods to their real-life characters as possible.

At Tuesday’s Los Angeles premiere of the James Mangold-directed Bob Dylan biopic, which debuts Dec. 25 in theaters, Chalamet told Deadline his and Norton’s “conversation was endless” on how they wanted to honor Dylan and Pete Seeger in the film. “We were so into the songs, it was more like, how can we get ‘Death of Hattie [Carroll]’ in the movie,” recalled Norton. “The best thing is when you enjoy the raw materials of it all enough that you want to put more in it than there’s any room for.

I think we wanted more Bob, more Pete, more Joan [Baez] in there than you could fit into one movie.” Chalamet added, “That is perfectly said.

We were like a menace to Jim because we were always trying to sneak stuff in and honor these amazing artists. My favorite thing about Edward in the production of this movie and also after this, is he really wanted to honor the spirit of Bob — who is alive and well — and Pete Seeger through this press, and not compromise why we’re ultimately there, the sort of pure values that you kind of have to when you’re putting a movie out there.