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Bob Dylan Experts Embrace Timothée Chalamet and Praise His Singing Voice After ‘A Complete Unknown’ Trailer: ‘Even the Most Cynical Fans Will Be Excited Now’


A dozen Bob Dylan experts weighed in on Timothée Chalamet's performance of 'A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall' in the trailer for 'A Complete Unknown.'

Dylan fanatics, or Dylanologists as they self-identify, lost faith in the project and picked apart every detail of Chalamet’s Greenwich Village getup, and a photo of the actor wrapped in an enormous (and rather hideous) scarf quickly became meme fodder. But then the trailer came out, offering a two-minute glimpse of Mangold’s vision set to Chalamet’s rousing rendition of “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall,” and cynical skepticism seemed to morph into cautious optimism. As expressed in a dozen separate interviews with Variety after the “A Complete Unknown” trailer launch, some of the world’s preeminent Dylan experts — including authors, critics, scholars and podcast hosts — were taken by Chalamet’s commitment to the role, and largely impressed by his singing voice.

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