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How Timothée Chalamet ‘Pushed the Bounds’ to Play Bob Dylan in ‘A Complete Unknown’

In his first Rolling Stone cover story, the actor and co-stars Elle Fanning, Monica Barbaro, and Ed Norton talk about making the year's biggest biopic

“People are deeply protective of Bob Dylan and his music legacy,” Chalamet says, “because it’s so pure in a sense, and they don’t want to see a biopic mishandle that.” Not to mention that he was playing, in his understated words, “someone who wasn’t a straightforward person,” an artist who’s always taken a certain glee in shrouding his true self. It feels a lot less iconic when we stroll by it in broad daylight, with Chalamet dressed like a college kid, in cargo shorts and a long-sleeved white T-shirt, tasteful gold chain around his neck, brown Yankees cap pulled low. Chalamet became a movie star with roles in indie films that punched way above their weight commercially, playing a sexually awakened, fruit-violating teen in Call Me By Your Name, a virginity-snatching jerk in Lady Bird, a tortured young addict in Beautiful Boy, a lovestruck suitor in Little Women.

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