Timothée Chalamet addresses Bob Dylan’s positive comment for biopic

Timothée Chalamet gets honest about Bob Dylan’s positive comments about his performance in James Mangold‘s biopic, A Complete Unknown.

Earlier on December 4, Dylan took to X, formerly known as Twitter, and called Chalamet “a brilliant actor”.

“I am sure he’s going to be completely believable as me,” wrote the iconic singer-songwriter.

In response to Dylan, Chalamet spoke to Deadline at the LA movie premiere and said that reading Dylan’s words felt “really, really affirming”.

“It’s hard to tell. Dylan is a mysterious, elusive figure. So, I figured if he or his team didn’t want me to be a part of it, I would’ve known about that,” stated the Dune actor.

However, Chalamet mentioned, “I didn’t really know how involved he’d be.”

The outlet reported that writer-director Mangold confirmed that Dylan hadn’t seen the movie.

To which, the Wonka actor mentioned that Dylan “got creatively involved with Mangold, which was great, he gave his input on the script”.

Chalamet cleared out that the biopic was never intended to replicate Dylan in a precise way.

“It’s an interpretation. This was a fable. This was not meant to be a Wikipedia fact-for-fact recreation of how it was,” explained the Little Women actor.

Chalamet added, “Otherwise, you might as well just watch the footage that exists.”

Elsewhere in the interview, the actor revealed he spend “five years preparing” for his role, learning guitar and performing all the songs in the movie himself.

When asked about writing or performing music in future, Chalamet replied, “I never have in a serious way, but then there’s no such thing as serious writing.”