Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor Yes, Timothée Chalamet pre-recorded his vocals to play Bob Dylan in James Mangold‘s “A Complete Unknown,” but he also sang live.
Mangold decided he was going to go with the live performance after being blown away by the actor’s performance. Mangold is no stranger to his actors singing live.
Joaquin Phoenix did it for “Walk the Line” playing Johnny Cash. In “A Complete Unknown,” Chalamet portrays a young Dylan who arrives in New York in 1961 and rapidly ascends through the folk scene.
The film takes place from 1961 to 1965 when Dylan goes electric. It’s not a typical biopic, as Mangold puts it, because the story isn’t anchored in Dylan’s birth and life story.
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