
Oscar Isaac Initially Thought Timothee Chalamet Playing Bob Dylan in 'A Complete Unknown' Was 'Really Bad Idea'

Oscar Isaac initially wasn’t sold on the idea of Timothee Chalamet playing Bob Dylan!
If you didn’t know, Timothee, 28, will be playing a younger version of the 83-year-old folk music icon in the upcoming movie A Complete Unknown directed by James Mangold.
While presenting Timothee and James with the Visionary Tribute Award at the 2024 Gotham Awards, Oscar, 45, admitted that he thought that Timothee playing Bob Dylan was a “really bad idea.”
Keep reading to find out more…Oscar recalled working with Timothee on the 2021 movie Dune: Part One when Timothee first told him and costars Josh Brolin and Stephen McKinley Henderson about the Bob Dylan biopic.
“He starts telling us about his next project he was working on. A movie with the wonderful director James Mangold about a young Bob Dylan coming to New York in 1961,” Oscar said. “And my first thought, ‘It sounds like a really bad idea.
If you didn’t know, Timothee, 28, will be playing a younger version of the 83-year-old folk music icon in the upcoming movie A Complete Unknown directed by James Mangold.
While presenting Timothee and James with the Visionary Tribute Award at the 2024 Gotham Awards, Oscar, 45, admitted that he thought that Timothee playing Bob Dylan was a “really bad idea.”
Keep reading to find out more…Oscar recalled working with Timothee on the 2021 movie Dune: Part One when Timothee first told him and costars Josh Brolin and Stephen McKinley Henderson about the Bob Dylan biopic.
“He starts telling us about his next project he was working on. A movie with the wonderful director James Mangold about a young Bob Dylan coming to New York in 1961,” Oscar said. “And my first thought, ‘It sounds like a really bad idea.
- 12/4/2024
- by Just Jared
- Just Jared
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