During his appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Timothée Chalamet revealed that his preparation for his role in A Complete Unknown started before COVID hit in 2019, followed by a production pause like many others. In the meantime, he completed two Dune movies but kept working on his Bob Dylan portrayal while playing Paul Atreides — which involved lots of guitar practice between takes.
In an exciting treat for Chalamet enthusiasts, the actor shared footage with Colbert showing himself in complete Atreides ceremonial costume during the first Dune, performing “It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry” — “with some Dune lyrical variations by me,” he said.
While filming Dune: Part Two, Chalamet discussed the project with his co-stars Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin, and Stephen McKinley Henderson on the sci-fi sequel’s set — and Isaac, being a hardcore Dylan fan, was initially skeptical. Set in New York during the early 1960s, A Complete Unknown follows young Dylan’s journey as he arrived in Greenwich Village as a mysterious, free-spirited 19-year-old from Minnesota and transformed the folk scene forever.
“My first thought was… sounds like a really bad idea. I mean, it’s Dylan. It’s the holy of holies for me. It just didn’t sound right,” Isaac recalled at the Gotham Awards on Monday night. He presented Chalamet and Mangold with the Visionary Tribute. “Then, Timmy takes out his guitar. Not a good sign.”
However, Isaac, Brolin, and Henderson quickly changed their minds after hearing Chalamet (who performs his own vocals in A Complete Unknown) deliver Dylan’s 1963 classic “Girl From the North Country.”
“Josh, Stephen and I aren’t your average Timmy groupies. We’re grizzled movie vets; we’ve seen some shit,” Isaac continued. “But to hear this kid, who had just started learning the guitar, who hadn’t done much singing, and who wasn’t all that familiar with Dylan’s music, approach these songs not as if he was learning something new but remembering something he’d already known, just rediscovering… The three of us just sat there watching this young man connect with something mysterious.”
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