Hollywood heartthrob’s co-star was ‘let down’ when meeting him because of bizarre acting method

Elle Fanning recovered herself fto down erstwhile gathering her co-star Timothée Chalamet for the archetypal clip during the accumulation of the Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown.

Fanning, who plays Dylan’s woman Sylvie Russo successful the film, was initially thrilled by the imaginable of gathering the legendary people vocalist himself.

When manager James Mangold invited her to conscionable ‘Bob’ during pre-production, Fanning, a longtime Dylan fan, obsessed implicit the thought of gathering her idol.

‘I was reasoning astir each these things to accidental and ask,’ she told Rolling Stone. ‘I was picking retired my outfit [and thinking] “I’m gathering Bob Dylan today!”‘

Her excitement rapidly changed to disorder erstwhile she arrived to find Timothee, successful quality arsenic the legendary people singer, determination instead.

‘I’m astir apt the archetypal idiosyncratic successful beingness to beryllium fto down by having a rehearsal with Timothée Chalamet, right? Like, the archetypal miss successful history,’ Fanning quipped.

This decidedly wasn’t the lone premix up connected set, arsenic Chalamet’s unrelenting committedness to his relation arsenic Dylan meant helium was astir ever successful quality portion filming.

The histrion immersed himself truthful profoundly into the quality that his sanction adjacent appeared arsenic ‘Bob Dylan’ connected the film’s telephone sheets.

Chalamet’s mentation for A Complete Unknown was beauteous utmost from opening to end.

The histrion isolated himself wholly for 3 months: ‘No visitors, nary friends, nary reps, nary nothing,’ helium said.

“It sounds pretentious,” helium admitted to Rolling Stone, ‘but panic fueled me. I didn’t privation to suffer a infinitesimal of find arsenic the quality due to the fact that of my telephone oregon immoderate distraction, truthful portion I was successful it, that was my eternal focus.’

Edward Norton, who portrays people euphony icon Pete Seeger successful the film, defended Chalamet’s attack to the magazine.

‘It was like, we cannot person a f—ing assemblage for this. We’ve got to judge to the top grade we can. And helium was close to beryllium that protective,’ Norton said.

Actress Monica Barbaro, who plays Joan Baez, different of Dylan’s real-life romanticist partners, noted that portion Chalamet’s method acting didn’t make an overly tense atmosphere, it required adjustments.

‘It wasn’t truthful full-on,’ Barbaro said. ‘It wasn’t “Don’t look him successful the eye” oregon thing similar that.’

Barbaro revealed that during filming, Chalamet’s Dylan accent would occasionally falter erstwhile they chatted off-script.

To debar compromising the character’s authenticity, the brace agreed to support casual conversations to a minimum. ‘At that point, I deliberation we some were conscionable like, “Nope, nary much talking!”‘

Chalamet thinks his committedness to the relation was worthy it successful the end: ‘I had 3 months of my beingness to play Bob Dylan, aft 5 years of preparing to play him,’ helium said.

‘God forbid I missed a measurement due to the fact that I was being Timmy. I could beryllium Timmy for the remainder of my life!’

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