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Timothée Chalamet Poured His Heart & Soul Into Being Bob Dylan in ‘A Complete Unknown’: ‘That Was My Eternal Focus’

Timothée Chalamet poured his heart and soul into becoming Bob Dylan in the biopic 'A Complete Unknown,' calling it his 'eternal focus' to get it right.

In a new Rolling Stone cover story, Chalamet describes the five years of prep work he did to play the folk rock icon in the film due out on Dec. 25, which included subsuming his not insignificant Hollywood star reality in order to crawl into the enigmatic singer/songwriter’s skin as a young man on the cusp of greatness. In that time, he went from a hip-hop head who knew very little about Dylan to a self-proclaimed “devoted disciple in the Church of Bob,” working with vocal, harmonica, guitar and dialect coaches so that he could credibly sing and play entire songs live on set. Chalamet still has not met or talked to the real Dylan, but he’s well aware that playing the mythical musical hero who was considered the Chosen One of folk rock is in keeping with one of his other recent roles as the golden child Paul Atreides in two Dune films.

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