Timothée Chalamet transforms into music legend Bob Dylan while filming the star’s biopic in New Jersey, after celebrating co-star Elle Fanning’s 26th birthday on set.

Timothée Chalamet transformed into music legend Bob Dylan while filming the star’s biopic in New Jersey, after helping his co-star Elle Fanning celebrate her 26th birthday on set.

The Dune star, 28, will play 82-year-old Blown’ In The Wind hitmaker in the upcoming biopic, A Complete Unknown.

Timothée has been seen filming as Bob in several locations in recent weeks, and was captured portraying the star in Paterson, New Jersey, on Tuesday.

He got into character sporting a pair of baggy blue jeans with a brown corduroy jacket, a red striped shirt and leather cowboy boots.

The Oscar nominee’s dark hair was styled to recall Bob’s signature shaggy locks when he was seen filming a scene getting into a car surrounded by screaming fans.

Bob’s devotees crowded around the car the actor was getting into, apparently eagerly awaiting an autograph.

Timothée is seen clutching his trusty guitar case, which rarely left his side during filming, as he approached the car.

Other snapshots from the filming showed Timothée [as Bob] looking forlorn once inside the car, while a fan held up a drawing they had made of him.

Earlier in the day, Emmy-nominated actress Elle Fanning celebrated her 26th birthday filming as Sylvie Russo.

Sylvie is a thinly veiled version of the late artist Suze Rotolo, who began dating the legendary 82-year-old in 1961 when they were teenagers and split in 1964 after her abortion and affair with Joan Baez.

Suze, who died aged 67 in 2011, inspired several of Bob’s songs, including Boots of Spanish Leather, Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right; and Tomorrow is a long time.

Rotolo inspired Dylan to paint, sing about the civil rights movement, and introduced him to the writings of French poet Arthur Rimbaud and German playwright Bertolt Brecht.

Timothée clearly found a way to amuse birthday girl Elle between takes of the big screen adaptation of Elijah Wald’s 2015 book, Dylan Goes Electric! while on set in New York City.

Oscar-nominated costume designer Arianne Phillips dressed Elle in a maroon pea coat over a red and white striped turtleneck, black jeans, and matching ballet flats.

Elle covered her freshly cut blonde bob with a wig to more authentically portray the “pure, light-skinned, golden-haired Italian” who “was the most erotic thing” Bob had ever seen.

Timothée, who was glued to his guitar case, was wearing a light brown jacket over a blue plaid shirt, retro blue jeans, and brown boots.

His costume was identical to Dylan’s on the cover of his iconic 1963 album The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, in which he walked arm in arm with Suze.

The talented couple was joined on set by director James Mangold, who said that “of course” Timothée will sing himself in the film, which began production on March 16.

“It’s an incredible time in American culture and in Bob’s story: a young 19-year-old Bob Dylan who arrives in New York with two dollars in his pocket and becomes a global sensation in three years,” said the man of 60 years. said the old filmmaker Collider A year ago.

“First he was accepted into the New York folk music family and, of course, getting over it, at a certain point his star rises beyond belief.

‘It’s a very interesting true story and about such an interesting time on the American scene. Different characters, from Woody Guthrie to Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger and Joan Baez, all have a role to play in this film.”

Timothee, whose rap alter ego is Lil Timmy Tim, previously warmed up his pipes in Paul King’s 2023 musical prequel, Wonka, and Woody Allen’s 2019 romantic comedy, A Rainy Day in New York (which also starred Elle Fanning).

Edward Norton, Monica Barbaro, Boyd Holbrook, Nick Offerman, Dan Fogler and Joe Tippett also star in A Complete Unknown (which references a lyric from the reclusive singer-songwriter’s 1965 hit Like A Rolling Stone).

Two-time Oscar winner Cate Blanchett previously nailed the young, electric-era Bob Dylan, aka Jude Quinn, in Todd Haynes. critically acclaimed 2007 experimental drama, I’m Not There.

However, A Complete Unknown will be produced by Bob himself.

Dylan (born Robert Zimmerman) will bring his Rough and Rowdy Ways World Tour to Ameris Bank Amphitheater in Alpharetta, GA on June 21.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member is truly a national treasure and has received 10 Grammy Awards, an Academy Award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation, and the Nobel Prize in Literature.