Timothée Chalamet reveals what he would say to Bob Dylan

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00:00It's an undertaking, you know, someone like Bob Dylan is not only someone who in his, you know, behaviorisms and

00:08his, you know, presence as a cultural figure is iconic, but more importantly as a thinker, as an artist, and as a, you know,

00:16shaper of American culture through the last 60-70 years is, is the guy in a lot of ways, and

00:23I

00:24obviously felt like you can't go near that if you're not ready to do it.

00:28Equally, I have five years to work on this, so there was no, or six, you know, there was no truncated process at any point,

00:36so you talk about a way in, or a way of

00:40sinking your teeth into it as an actor, like you said, if you play any real-life figure, it's sort of a gift, because

00:46there's the,

00:47there's the, the reality of how it went, and how it happened, and with a musician,

00:52your, your, your education becomes twofold, or tenfold, because there's not only the, the record of what he went through in his work,

00:59but with his fact, you know what I'm saying, like, what he actually

01:03described in song, but the feeling you can give you as a person, which for me with Bob's music was

01:09exponential, it was indescribable. At some point, it stopped feeling like work, because I guess it was five, six years,

01:14it was what I was going to every time in the pandemic when we all had too much time on our hands,

01:18I had too much time on my hands, and

01:21the gift of Bob's work, it's not, it's not like you put out one album, it was a,

01:26you know, and that's all there was, there's, there's so much great stuff. It was one of the challenges of the movie, you know,

01:32how do you,

01:33you know, get a film

01:36that honors Bob Dylan across,

01:39without honoring the decade, you know, time out of mine, and blood on the tracks, and Nashville skyline, and,

01:45but we just covered 61 to 65, you know, these four years Bob's life,

01:48but every four years Bob's life was fascinating, you know.

01:52I honestly, I picked up a guitar on Call Me By Her Name, because I pluck out the chords of a

01:58song in that film, so I had like really rudimentary experience with that, but something, so the first time I picked it up, it wasn't

02:07totally new to me, but I

02:10think sometime in

02:132018, I had my first

02:15lesson with this great guitar teacher named Larry Saltzman, who at some point became less of a teacher and more,

02:23he was my

02:25co-sanity artist through COVID, because I think we were keeping each other sane, because we would zoom

02:30three, four, five times a week, and doing songs that never made it into the movie, you know,

02:36and

02:38I probably worked, you know, I

02:41would say 80% of the time I worked with Larry was on Zoom, and 20% was in person, because I would travel on these

02:45press tours, or travel on different films, and we would always check in. I really liked all of it,

02:49I liked all of it, and

02:53I liked the more intimate

02:55songs, like Girl from the North Country, or Boots of Spanish Leather, or One Too Many Mornings, or Tomorrow's a Long Time,

03:00but then I also liked

03:01North Country Blues, and Rocks and Gravel, or Ballad of Hollis Brown, and things that, where you hear the iron ore in Bob's voice,

03:08the North Country, the Minnesota, the Hibbing, the, you know, the the Hibbing that when I visited, you really feel like you're on the edge

03:14of America, you know, you feel like you're on the edge of the world, and these factories are covered in snow, and the icy roads, and

03:24you know,

03:26all these facets of Bob's upbringing, and of his

03:29artistic worldview, because I couldn't speak for him, because the man's alive and well in Malibu, so I wouldn't, I wouldn't,

03:35you know, try to speak for him, but

03:37that stuff that, as a New Yorker, I just, I just started to fall in love with, you know, and just

03:43the idea that just a man and a guitar could, you know, like I said, a song like North Country Blues,

03:48or Ballad of Hollis Brown, I mean, it just puts you in a different mind state, you know, and I think I would just say

03:54thank you, really, and not thank you for the opportunity to meet, or even to thank you

03:58for the opportunity to play the role, thank you for his music, and his art, and his work, and

04:05it's really what I would say.

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