Timothée Chalamet Channels Infamous Bob Dylan Look at New York Premiere

Timothée Chalamet capped a week of promoting A Complete Unknown Friday by channeling one of Bob Dylan’s most infamous looks at the film’s New York premiere event.

A night after cosplaying a different Dylan outfit on The Late Show, Chalamet appeared at the SVA Theater wearing a leather coat, gray patterned scarf, red flannel shirt, and blue beanie, as well as freshly blonded hair.

The look was directly inspired by the outfit-and-hair combo Dylan himself donned at a film premiere over 20 years earlier, when the singer’s own Masked and Anonymous screened at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival.

“The worst thing we could’ve done with a Bob Dylan biopic is sanitize it, is make it sound clean,” Chalamet, donning a blue suede jacket and striped pants evoking Dylan’s mid-60’s look, told Stephen Colbert on Thursday. “This was a man from iron ore country. You here the coal country in his voice. I didn’t want to be a New Yorker recording in Los Angeles decimating that music. I wanted to honor that legacy, this is an American hero, one of the fantastic artists of our time.”

Chalamet called Complete Unknown “the movie I’m absolutely the proudest of in my career.” He prepped for the role for five years, delayed because of the pandemic in 2020 and Hollywood strikes last year. 

Chalamet’s vocal coach Eric Vetro spoke with Rolling Stone last week, digging deepr about what it took to train Chalamet to sound like Dylan.

“We would do normal exercises that I would give to anyone just to strengthen their voice, widen their range. That’s how we would start,” Vetro said. “Then we would start bringing him into probably a little bit more what you would call front-nasal exercises. And then as we would continue, I’d start to try to get him to think, “How would Bob do this exercise? If he was going to take a voice lesson, how would he do it?”

The not-completely-accurate A Complete Unknown arrives on Christmas day.