Timothée Chalamet’s surprisingly long fingernails in Bob Dylan biopic ‘A Complete Unknown’ are actually his own

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lauded transformation into rock icon Bob Dylan in “A Complete Unknown” was so complete, it went all the way down to his cuticles.

The “Dune 2” actor, 28, ended rampant speculation about whether the surprisingly long fingernails he has in the new biopic (out Dec.

25) are actually his own during an interview with Fandango. In a short clip from the sit-down shared on TikTok, the star spoke about his talons after the interviewer brought up the movie’s evident attention to detail, which includes dirt under the actor’s fingernails. “He did have them,” Chalamet’s co-star Elle Fanning, who plays Sylvie Russo, a character loosely based on Dylan’s girlfriend in the early 1960s, Suze Rotolo, said of the actor.Chalamet “had to grow them out,” she added.The “Call Me By Your Name” actor then chimed in, sharing that his nails “got stronger over time.”“They would chip at first.

That must be some bodily process, like your body just gets used to,” he trailed off and then added, “by the end they were like claws.” James Mangold, who directed “A Complete Unknown,” also spoke about Chalamet’s nails, even comparing them to those of a vampire. “Yeah, he was growing them.