There’s Wes Anderson’s ensemble The French Dispatch, which earned raves out of Cannes, in which Chalamet appears opposite Frances McDormand as a revolutionary spearheading a student liberation movement.

22, he’ll appear in two films released on the same day. (He walked the red carpet in a Haider Ackermann satin tuxedo jacket and sweatpants.) On Oct.

He’s back in New York for the Met Gala, which he’s co-chairing alongside Billie Eilish, Naomi Osaka and Amanda Gorman. Here’s hoping that one day, this film sees the light of day.If Chalamet-whom most people call, affectionately, Timmy-sees himself as off-center, so far it’s working. However, one thing that can’t be doubted is Chalamet’s want and desire to play Dylan, who he devoted countless hours to understanding on a three-dimensional level. Whether Going Electric ends up reaching completion or not remains up in the air, and filming anytime soon looks almost impossible. The director reportedly told Chalamet that “the truly incredible thing about Dylan was not so much the quality, which was obvious, but the quantity-the rapid amount of work in short succession, one groundbreaking album after another, in those early years.” The actor added, “He almost seemed weary of even talking about this stuff, it was so big and potent.” The two went out for dinner together while Chalamet was shooting Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch alongside Coen’s wife, Francis McDormand, and chewed the fat about Dylan over a steak. The actor reportedly “ran from site to site, with notes he’d kept while reading Dylan’s memoir, Chronicles: Volume One, barreling up stairs and peering into windows.”īefore accepting the role, he sounded out the opinion of a true Dylan connoisseur in Joel Coen, who made sure that Chalamet understood the gravitas of playing such an icon. Chalamet spent his time in the summer going from Greenwich Village to Woodstock and fully immersing himself in the world Dylan lived in during this period.

Going Electric was to look at the period in the mid-1960s were Dylan made the radical decision to put down the acoustic guitar and make that bold move to go electric. The pandemic gave Chalamet a pass to explore Greenwich Village while wearing a face mask, which meant despite being one of the most famous actors on the planet, he had a rare stint of anonymity. The interview with Chalamet states that the actor quoted the singer often, noting he clearly had a fixation on the art and the persona. Coincidentally, it turned out that the house was covered in Dylan memorabilia who, of course, lived in the area but sadly never had the opportunity to perform at the iconic festival in 1969.īob Dylan’s life story naturally attracts filmmakers. The New York native revealed to GQ that he rented out an Airbnb property in Woodstock to get a feel for the artist. In the summer of 2020, Dylan was at the forefront of Chalamet’s mind, and with the pandemic putting the film industry to a halt, the period of flux allowed him the time to fully understand Dylan. “I don’t think it’s dead, but it’s a tough one to pull off in a Covid-era because it’s all in small clubs with lots of extras in period costumes so you’ve got lots of hair and makeup,” he added. “We were going to do Bob Dylan with Mangold that didn’t happen, with Timothée Chalamet, about going electric in the ’60s,” director of photography Phedon Papamichael confirmed to Collider last October. While the project has since been put on hold indefinitely due to covid, Chalamet poured months of work into ensuring he was fit to do Dylan and his story justice. Last year, it was revealed James Mangold was working on another biopic based on Dylan’s life and, with anticipation growing, the production even lined up Timothee Chalamet to portray the singer.

Timothee chalamet electric photosheet