Timothée Chalamet Will ‘Never’ Release His Own Album Despite Spending Six Years Learning to Play the Guitar and Sing Like Bob Dylan for ‘A Complete Unknown’

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Marc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events Timothée Chalamet may be earning rave reviews for his guitar-playing and singing as Bob Dylan in James Mangold’s “A Complete Unknown,” but the Oscar nominee insists he’s not itching to release an album of his own. “Never,” he told me, laughing, at the film’s premiere Tuesday at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.

Chalamet credited co-star Edward Norton for pushing him to sing live during filming. “He was always the devil in my ear telling me to do these songs live,” he said. “We had these pre-records, but Edward was always sort of the counterweight to the 99 other voices that were saying not to.” Monica Barbaro, who plays Joan Baez, recalled singing for the first time with Chalamet during rehearsals. “It was also the first time we met,” she said. “I had sung along with his recordings in the studio, but being in real time, in real life harmonizing and listening to our guitars, it was magical.

It was my favorite thing about getting to do this.” Barbaro didn’t play the guitar nor was she a trained singer before the movie.

Like, Chalamet, she has no plans to release an album following her award-winning turn as Baez. “I can play, and I love to and I continue to do it,” she said. “For now, it’s a very private hobby…but I’ve been writing on my own, and I love it.