Timothée Chalamet ‘panicked’ playing Bob Dylan, was ‘relentless’ over who could be on set

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Dune” actor, who stars in the new biopic “A Complete Unknown,” out Dec. 25, admitted he was “panicked” to take on the role of the iconic “Like a Rolling Stone” crooner.“It was something I would go to sleep panicked about, losing a moment of discovery as the character — no matter how pretentious that sounds — because I was on my phone or because of any distraction,” Chalamet, 28, told Rolling Stone for its December cover story. “I had three months of my life to play Bob Dylan, after five years of preparing to play him.

So while I was in it, that was my eternal focus. He deserved that and then more … God forbid I missed a step because I was being Timmy.

I could be Timmy for the rest of my life!”The film, directed by James Mangold (“Walk the Line”), is set in 1960s New York City, when Dylan was getting his start in Greenwich Village.

The actor — determined to do Dylan justice — was an intense presence on set.“He was relentless,” said Edward Norton, who plays Pete Seeger in the film. “No visitors, no friends, no reps, no nothing. ‘Nobody comes around us while we’re doing this.’”“We’re trying to do the best we can with something that’s so totemic and sacrosanct to many people.