Inside Boyd Holbrook’s Johnny Money Transformation for A Full Unknown (Unique)

Boyd Holbrook is detailing all the pieces that went into his Johnny Money transformation for A Full Unknown.

PEOPLE has an unique behind-the-scenes video, wherein Holbrook, 43, alongside together with his costar Timothée Chalamet and director James Mangold, discusses his efficiency as late nation star Money reverse Chalamet as Bob Dylan.

Holbrook says within the clip that he “did a voice coach, singing coach, about two hours a day for 5 months, simply immersing myself in him, his voice.”

The star’s iteration of Money intersects with Chalamet’s Dylan a number of instances in A Full Unknown. Director Mangold, 61, beforehand labored with Joaquin Phoenix to convey Money to the display in 2005’s Stroll the Line. Mangold says within the clip that he “simply felt Boyd would have enjoyable with this” when he forged the half once more for the Dylan-centric biopic.

“Boyd made it his personal. It feels simply as genuine and true as Joaquin Phoenix’s efficiency as Johnny Money,” Chalamet, 29, says within the video.

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Mangold provides that he was considering how Holbrook’s “masculine, darkish vitality inhabiting this function” would play reverse Chalamet as Dylan within the earlier years of Dylan’s profession.

Holbrook describes studying to painting Money, who died at 71 in 2003, concerned “carving out form of this hole tree inside myself to get that resonance, which was a course of, man.”

“It took me a very long time to try this. Dyed my hair brown, placed on some extra weight, placed on a [fake nose], and we even had spacers behind the ears. However enjoying make-believe at this degree is fairly excessive,” he stated.

A Full Unknown acquired eight nominations on the upcoming 97th Academy Awards. Chalamet is nominated for Finest Actor, whereas costars Monica Barbaro and Edward Norton are nominated for his or her performances as Joan Baez and Pete Seeger, respectively. Mangold is nominated within the Finest Director and Finest Tailored Screenplay classes.

“We pay cash to go see a film as a result of we wish to be taught one thing about ourselves or the world or really feel one thing, and that is gonna solely come from discovering the a part of that person who can also be in you however at all times carrying the half that’s you with it,” Mangold says within the video.

A Full Unknown is now out there on digital.