Timothée Chalamet might be returning to Saturday Night time Reside – as each a bunch and a musical visitor.
The actor will make his third look on the present on January 25, which comes amid his promotional run for A Full Unknown – the movie that sees him tackle the position of a younger Bob Dylan.
Chalamet final hosted SNL in 2023, when he impersonated legendary director Martin Scorsese and was joined by boygenius in a sketch the place all 4 had been dressed up as Troye Sivan, parodying his ‘Received Me Began’ dance.
Sivan later reacted to the skit, describing it as “a bizarre fucking dream”. He added: “Like think about… Timothée Chalamet was in my dream, however he was me, and he was sporting my garments.”
Forward of his starring position as Dylan, Chalamet discovered to sing and play guitar and harmonica. He additionally beforehand sang in 2023’s Wonka, although it’s not but clear what he might be acting on SNL.
A Full Unknown charts Dylan’s controversial change from acoustic to electrical guitar within the mid-’60s. Dylan served as an govt producer on the movie, which is an adaptation of Elijah Wald’s 2015 e-book Dylan Goes Electrical! Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night time That Break up the Sixties.
He additionally insisted on there being a minimum of one completely inaccurate second within the biopic.
It was launched in US cinemas on Christmas Day (December 25), with a UK launch to comply with on January 17.
Reviewing the film, NME awarded it 4 stars and stated: “So lots of the performances in A Full Unknown fizz with this sort of tense, gripping power – whether or not it’s as a result of Dylan and Baez are bickering by means of ‘Blowin’ In The Wind’ or he’s managed to bottle the nervousness of a whole metropolis awaiting nuclear armageddon in a Chilly Warfare protest music.”
It added: “A very powerful (and infrequently trickiest) job of any music film is to get the music proper. And this nails that. In case you’re a Bob beginner, you’ll go away the cinema able to dive into his again catalogue.
“In case you’re already a fan, the subsequent few weeks might be spent making playlists of lesser-known B-sides or studying the lore round a scene you weren’t aware of. And that’s why it was a good suggestion to make this movie – a mad concept, however an excellent one.”
