Timothee Chalamet once told an agent he needed to gain weight, the actor recalled this week. Although strange at the time, memories of the experience helped Chalamet prepare to play Bob Dylan in James Mangold’s upcoming film. A complete unknown.
“If I auditioned. Maze Runner or ContradictoryThat’s the kind of thing that was unfolding when I came across it,” Chalamet said. Zane Lowe in an interview released on Tuesday. “I had an agent call me and say, ‘You’ve got to gain weight,’ basically, not aggressively, but you know.”
Although he might not become the face of any of the dystopian teen dramas of the 2010s, Chalamet’s career turned out just fine. Now, as he prepares for release. A complete unknown The following month, the actor says his experience wasn’t too different from Dylan’s.
“I’ve experienced life, I wouldn’t say it’s weird, but I can relate to some of these things. [Bob Dylan] Chalamet said. “Bob wanted to be a rock ‘n’ roll star—Buddy Holly, Little Richard, Elvis Presley—which, depending on your point of view, was the kind of rice-crispy pop, rock and roll music that saturated, you know. So, in the late 50s, I wanted to be a big movie actor.
Like the uber-popular folk musician, Chalamet said he ended up learning what he needed to build a career by keeping an eye on talking to them in person. “I found my way into these very personal films.” The Mound said the actor. “For [Dylan]it was folk music. He couldn’t have a rock ‘n’ roll band because they’d all get hired by other kids who literally had more money in Minnesota. So for me, it was finding a very personal style of film – CAll in your name or handsome boy or Lady Bird or Little Women, Miss Stevens, Hot Summer Nights. They were small budget but very… I don’t know how else to put it…. Character films starting from this theater space. This is where I found my rhythm, my confidence, my flow, whatever you want to call it.
Elsewhere in the interview, Chalamet said he worked with a harmonica coach for five years in the lead-up to the film. After that, he retraced Bob’s footsteps to “Chicago and Madison, Wisconsin,” as well as Minnesota, where Dylan was born.
Despite the intense training, Chalamet said the film isn’t about recreating the musician’s life. “It’s interpretive. It’s not definitive,” he said. “It’s not reality. It didn’t happen that way. It’s fiction.”
A complete unknown Released in theaters on Christmas Day.
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