Timothée Chalamet channelled Bob Dylan in one other approach on the A Full Unknown premiere.
Not solely did the Name Me By Your Title star be taught to play 30 songs in preparation for his function within the Dylan biopic – in addition to taking classes with a vocal coach, a guitar instructor, a dialect coach, a motion coach and even a harmonica tutor – however he upped the ante by embodying The Bard on the carpet.
Final night time (December 13), the actor appeared on the New York Metropolis occasion and recalled a glance of Dylan’s from a long time prior, when he appeared on the Sundance Movie Competition premiere of his movie Masked and Nameless in 2003.
Chalamet bought the look all the way down to a wonderful science, together with the facial hair, blonde locks, leather-based jacket and gray scarf, which followers are seemingly divided over.
Whereas some stated the tribute was “all the pieces” and joked a few “male model of The Substance“, others argued it was a transfer proper out of the Barbie press tour playbook, and didn’t gel with a biopic about Dylan.
Try extra reactions beneath:
TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET REFERENCING TO THIS BOB DYLAN LOOK IS EVERYTHING pic.twitter.com/2IROrCQ9ks
— َ (@chlmtslut) December 14, 2024
HE DID IT pic.twitter.com/2jhewBsXr4
— L (@timtomposting) December 14, 2024
I assumed this was like actually good photoshop for a second I can’t consider that is actual
— peter lane (@peterlanee) December 14, 2024
I did not know there was a male model of #TheSubstance
— Tonton Alberto 🕺🏻 (@RostatAlberto) December 14, 2024
Barbie has actually ruined press excursions by way of on-the-nose technique dressing.
— michael (@michelevs92) December 14, 2024
This labored for Barbie! This doesn’t work for A Full Unknown!
Studios actually don’t know when to learn a room.— Dolly Madison ✌🏻🌻 🟦 (@dollymad1812) December 14, 2024
Dylan lately praised Chalamet’s efforts and stated “Timmy’s an excellent actor so I’m certain he’s going to be fully plausible as me. Or a youthful me. Or another me.”
He continued: “The movie’s taken from Elijah Wald’s Dylan Goes Electrical – a e book that got here out in 2015. It’s a incredible retelling of occasions from the early ‘60s that led as much as the fiasco at Newport. After you’ve seen the film learn the e book.”
Chalamet has since responded to the reward whereas quote-tweeting Dylan’s submit. “Floored,” he wrote. “I’m so grateful. Thanks Bob.”
In NME’s four-star evaluate of the movie, Alex Flood wrote: “A very powerful (and sometimes trickiest) job of any music film is to get the music proper. And this nails that. When you’re a Bob beginner, you’ll go away the cinema able to dive into his again catalogue.
“When you’re already a fan, the subsequent few weeks will likely be spent making playlists of lesser-known B-sides or studying the lore round a scene you weren’t acquainted with. And that’s why it was a good suggestion to make this movie – a mad concept, however a great one.”
