Filming of the long-awaited epic musical drama about Bob Dylan, A complete stranger, started a little over a week ago in New York City.
And on Sunday, some of the cast and crew were at it again, filming a scene with Timothée Chalamet as the burgeoning leader of the new folk music revival of the 1960s.
The leading man was first seen mingling behind the scenes on set, and then parked alone on a city bank before cameras started rolling.
Considering that the story begins after Dylan dropped out of college to tour New York City in January 1961, Chalamet is dressed in the beatnik style of the musician of the time, wearing a brown suede jacket, a shirt with two tone brown button down and blue jeans. .
The Blowin’ In The Wind star was also wearing old brown cowboy boots, while stylists had her dark brown locks combed up and out of her face.
Timothée Chalamet, 28, returned to the streets of New York City to film another scene for the epic musical drama, A Complete Unknown, about a promising young Bob Dylan.
Stylists dressed the French-American actor in a classic Dylan look: a brown suede jacket over a two-tone brown shirt and blue jeans. Chalamet also had his dark brown locks styled high on his face like the real singer-songwriter.
The protagonist says on a city bench reading a letter and smoking a cigarette for the scene, dressed in Dylan’s beatnik style of the time in 1961.
The focus of the day seemed to be the scene of Dylan (Chalamet) sitting on a city bench smoking a cigarette while reading a letter with a small bag placed next to him.
The setting was perfect for the period, with extras dressed for the period, while old retro cars from the 1950s were parked or driving around the actor.
Directed by James Mangold, working from a script he co-wrote with Jay Cocks, the filmmaker maintains that the “film is not really a Bob Dylan biopic” because it focuses on a period in the singer-songwriter’s life, according to Rolling Stone.
The Duluth, Minnesota, native had just arrived in Manhattan to give a performance and hopefully reunite with his musical idol Woody Guthrie, who at the time was seriously ill with Huntington’s disease at Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital.
Mangold, who previously directed and co-wrote the Johnnie Cash biopic Walk The Line with Joaquin Phoenix as the Man in Black, not only has the full support of the real Bob Dylan, but also met with him several times to reflect. to help formulate the story.
“I’ve spent several wonderfully lovely days in his company, just one on one, talking to him,” the writer-director said last year. “He loves movies.”
After revealing that he does not consider the production a biographical film, he proceeds to give a brief synopsis of the beginning of the film.
“It’s kind of an ensemble piece about this time, early ’60s New York, and this 17-year-old kid with 16 dollars in his pockets hitchhikes to New York to meet Woody Guthrie, who’s in the hospital. Mangold, 60, said.
Filming on A Complete Unknown began on March 16 after being delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic and the SAG-AFTRA strike last year.
The focus of the day seemed to be the scene of Dylan (Chalamet) sitting on a city bench smoking a cigarette while reading a letter with a small bag placed next to him.
The setting was perfect for the period, with extras dressed for the period, while old retro cars from the 1950s were parked or driving around the actor.
The title, A Complete Unknown, is actually one of the lyrics that define the chorus of one of Dylan’s most popular songs, Like A Rolling Stone, which he didn’t write or release until after going electric in 1965.
‘How do you feel? / How do you feel? / Being homeless / Like a complete stranger / like a rolling stone,’ he sings in the all-time classic.
Mangold previously revealed that Chalamet will sing himself in the film. In fact, he hired the same vocal and dialect coaches who worked with Austin Butler for his acclaimed performance in the biopic Elvis (2022).
The cast of A Complete Unknown also stars Elle Fanning (Sylvie Russo), Monica Barbaro (Joan Baez), Nick Offerman (Alan Lomax) and Boyd Holbrook (Johnny Cash), Edward Norton (Pete Seeger) and PJ Byrne (Harold Leventhal ).
Shortly after arriving in New York, Dylan is welcomed by the New York folk scene (Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Joan Baez and others), who recognize his talent both as a musician and as a composer and lyricist.
Dylan’s style added increasingly sophisticated lyrical techniques to the folk music of the early 1960s, infusing it with “the intellectualism of classical literature and poetry.”
And it wouldn’t be long before his words incorporated many political, social and philosophical influences, challenging the old conventions of pop music to appeal more to the burgeoning counterculture movement.
After performing in the club-filled midtown Manhattan scene, he soon becomes a local sensation and ends up signing a record deal with Columbia Records.
Actress Mónica Barbaro, 33, plays contemporary folk music and activist Joan Baez in the musical drama. Báez is seen with Dylan in 1965 on the right.
The Duluth, Minnesota, native had just arrived in Manhattan to give a performance and hopefully reunite with his musical idol Woody Guthrie, who at the time was seriously ill with Huntington’s disease at Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital.
Edward Norton, 54, who plays folk singer and activist Pete Seeger, was also seen shooting on the streets of Manhattan on Sunday. Seeger is pictured circa 1960 on the right.
Directed by James Mangold, working from a script he co-wrote with Jay Cocks, the filmmaker maintains that the “film is not really a Bob Dylan biopic” because it focuses on a period in the singer-songwriter’s life, according to rolling stone
The protagonist was also seen wandering around the set to and from his trailer.
The title, A Complete Unknown, is one of the defining lyrics of the chorus of one of Dylan’s most popular songs, Like A Rolling Stone, which he wrote and released until he went electric in 1965. Chalamet is singing on his own for the production
The story follows Dylan’s rise to a cultural phenomenon, his strong relationships in the folk music world, and his ultimate transition away from folk music, which saw him plug in, go electric, and hire rock musicians for his album Bringing It All. Back Home (1965). ).
It was Dylan’s first album to incorporate electric instrumentation, which caused controversy and divided many fans and those in the contemporary folk scene.
With more than 145 million records sold, Bob Dylan is considered among the best-selling music artists of all time.
As of now, A Complete Unknown still does not have a release date.