Timothée Chalamet on What Bob Dylan Taught Him About Fame and Politics: ‘Be Wary of Any Savior-Like Figures’

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Ellise Shafer Timothée Chalamet opened up about how playing Bob Dylan in “A Complete Unknown” influenced his own experience with fame and activism, saying that he learned from the folk legend to “be wary of any savior-like figures.” During a packed press conference at Berlin Film Festival on Friday, Chalamet was asked about how Dylan — who penned several iconic protest songs — has influenced his view on political issues like war and the rise of the far-right.

Though the moderator redirected the question to the film as “opposed to a personal political point of view,” Chalamet said: “I don’t think that’s necessarily a political question.” He continued, “I think it’s in the nature of his music, the warnings against cult-like figures.

And I think that Bob was very true to — I won’t speak for him because he’s alive and well in Malibu — but my interpretation is just be wary of any savior-like figures … Anyone who says they have a solution, be wary.

That’s also the message of Frank Herbert’s ‘Dune.'” When the journalist then asked how this message had changed him, Chalamet responded: “The truth is, I’m not interested in how it changed me or explaining how it changed me, as much as I know it did.