LOS ANGELES — Bob Dylan has declared himself a Timothée Chalamet fan.
The “Like a Rolling Stone” singer, in an X put up on Wednesday, endorsed the Oscar-nominated actor’s casting as lead in “A Complete Unknown.” The forthcoming biopic chronicles Dylan’s rise to fame in Sixties New York. The people luminary’s stamp of approval comes weeks earlier than the movie’s Dec. 25 launch.
“There’s a movie about me opening soon called A Complete Unknown (what a title!),” Dylan wrote within the put up, through which he referred to as Chalamet a “brilliant actor” who he trusts will “be completely believable as me. Or a younger me. Or some other me.”
He went on to encourage followers to learn the e-book that impressed the James Mangold-directed movie: Elijah Wald’s “Dylan Goes Electric,” revealed in 2015.
It’s the primary time the 10-time Grammy Award winner has spoken publicly in regards to the movie, which was introduced in early 2020 and was initially titled “Going Electric.” Nevertheless, in the course of the making of “A Complete Unknown,” Dylan recurrently sat down with Mangold to offer notes on the script, Chalamet informed Rolling Stone final month.
“Jim (Mangold) has an annotated Bob script lying around somewhere,” Chalamet informed the outlet. “I’ll beg him to get my hands on it. He’ll never give it to me.”
Monday evening in New York Metropolis, Chalamet was amongst these lauded on the Gotham Awards, which honor impartial movies and are given out by the nonprofit Gotham Movie & Media Institute. He obtained the Visionary Tribute for his work within the film, which additionally stars Monica Barbaro (as Joan Baez), Elle Fanning (as Sylvie Russo) and Edward Norton (as Pete Seeger), amongst others.
“I’m grateful to everyone who poured themselves into this project,” Chalamet mentioned in his acceptance speech. “Getting to study and immerse myself in the world of Bob Dylan has been the greatest education a young artist could receive.”
Previous to the movie’s extensive launch on Christmas Day, early-access screenings might be provided at choose IMAX theaters starting Dec. 18.