Timothée Chalamet channelled Bob Dylan in one other approach on the A Full Unknown premiere.
Not solely did the Name Me By Your Identify 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 many years prior, when he appeared on the Sundance Movie Competition premiere of his movie Masked and Nameless in 2003.
Chalamet obtained the look right down to a nice 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 things” and joked a couple of “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.
Take a look at 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 not too long ago praised Chalamet’s efforts and stated “Timmy’s a superb actor so I’m certain he’s going to be utterly 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 improbable 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 publish. “Floored,” he wrote. “I’m so grateful. Thanks Bob.”
In NME’s four-star evaluation of the movie, Alex Flood wrote: “An important (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 can 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 thought, however a superb one.”
