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Johnny Cash IS a character in James Mangold’s Bob Dylan movie, ‘A Complete Unknown’ — but he won’t be played by Joaquin Phoenix. Instead, Boyd Holbrook was cast in the role. “I don’t do multiverses,” says Mangold, who also directed Phoenix in ‘Walk The Line.’


In his first in-depth interview about his Bob Dylan movie, director James Mangold goes deep on Chalamet's "acting brilliance" and much, much more

Before director James Mangold began production on his Bob Dylan movie, A Complete Unknown, the subject of the film asked him a pointed question. In his first in-depth interview about A Complete Unknown, Mangold (also the director of Walk The Line, Logan, Ford v Ferrari, and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny) tells Rolling Stone about the process behind the film, Chalamet’s performance, and much, much more. And when I dove into Jay’s script and started to push and pull on it, largely in the area of trying to expand the early part of the movie and the network of characters, I found the years from ’61 to ’64 really interesting.

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