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‘A Complete Unknown’ Fact Check: Were Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash Really Pen Pals?
Which is the made-up anecdote Bob Dylan suggested for the biopic? We have a few guesses.
This time, the director takes a more intimate approach, following a young Bob Dylan (played by Timothée Chalamet) from his first arrival in New York in 1961 to his infamous electric performance at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. Dylan also told strangers that he grew up in New Mexico, ran away from home several times, had already met Guthrie while traveling through California, and that he learned slide guitar from a one-eyed Black musician named Wigglefoot. Mangold depicts Cash in both Walk the Line and A Complete Unknown as nervy mysteries always on the edge of a breakdown, though Boyd Holbrook plays him as more mischievous and good-humored compared to the brooding Joaquin Phoenix.
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