Timothée Chalamet as soon as had an agent inform him he wanted to acquire weight, the actor recalled this week. Although bizarre on the time, reminiscences of the expertise helped Chalamet put together to play Bob Dylan in James Mangold’s upcoming A Full Unknown.
“If I auditioned for The Maze Runner or Divergent, things of that variety that were popping when I was coming up, the feedback was always, ‘Oh, you don’t have the right body,” Chalamet advised Zane Lowe in an interview launched Tuesday. “I had an agent that called me and said, ‘You got to put on weight,’ basically, not aggressively, but you know.”
Although he might not have turn into the face of any dystopian teen dramas that peppered the 2010s, Chalamet’s profession turned out to be simply nice. Now, as he prepares for the discharge of A Full Unknown subsequent month, the actor says his expertise felt not too dissimilar to Dylan’s.
“I’ve had a life experience, I won’t say it’s weird, but I can relate to some of these things [Bob Dylan] went through,” Chalamet stated. “Bob wanted to be a rock ‘n’ roll star — Buddy Holly, Little Richard, Elvis Presley — that was the sort of, depending on your point of view, the sort of rice crispy pop, rock & roll music that was saturated, you know, marketed to kids in the late ’50s. Equally, I wanted to be a big movie actor.”
Just like the uber in style people musician, Chalamet stated he ended up studying that he wanted to construct his profession with an eye fixed for what spoke to him personally. “I found my way into these very personalized movies,” the Dune actor stated. “For [Dylan], it was folk music. He couldn’t keep a rock ‘n’ roll band because they would all get hired by other kids that had more money, literally, in Minnesota. So for me, it was finding a very personal style movie — Call Me By Your Name or Beautiful Boy or Lady Bird or Little Women, Miss Stevens, Hot Summer Nights. Those were smaller budget but very… I don’t know how else to put it…. personable movies that started in this theatre space. This is where I found my rhythm, my confidence, my flow, whatever you want to call it.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Chalamet stated he labored with a harmonica coach for 5 years in the lead-up to the movie. After that, he “retraced Bob’s steps through Chicago and Madison, Wisconsin” in addition to in Minnesota, the place Dylan was born.
Regardless of the extreme coaching, Chalamet stated the film was not about recreating the musician’s life precisely. “This is interpretive. This is not definitive,” he stated. “This is not fact. This is not how it happened. This is a fable.”
A Full Unknown releases in theaters on Christmas Day.
