In case you haven’t heard, Timothée Chalamet is playing Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown. Today, the actor got the greatest compliment from the legendary singer.
“There’s a movie about me opening soon called A Complete Unknown (what a title!). Timothee Chalamet is starring in the lead role,” the known musician wrote. “Timmy’s a brilliant actor so I’m sure he’s going to be completely believable as me. Or a younger me. Or some other me. The film’s taken from Elijah Wald’s Dylan Goes Electric – a book that came out in 2015. It’s a fantastic retelling of events from the early ‘60s that led up to the fiasco at Newport. After you’ve seen the movie read the book.”
The fact that Dylan wrote that with the movie being a complete unknown to him is pretty impressive. It will be interesting to see if he feels the same way after he sees the movie when it comes out on Christmas Day.
UPDATE: Someone told Chalamet about what Dylan wrote, so the actor responded with, “screaming crying laughing screaming laughing pooping screaming crying THANK YOU BOB !!!! DREAM COME TRUE !!!!”
Chalamet better hope the movie is a “dream come true” for Dylan, or the spirit of the Hurricane will come after him!
