Timothée Chalamet went home and “wept” after performing one in every of his favourite Bob Dylan songs reside on plight for the biopic A Total Unknown.
In James Mangold’s upcoming biographical drama, the Dune star sings and plays guitar in personality as the renowned musician reside on plight.
During an interview with Zane Lowe for Apple Song, Chalamet admitted he cried after his first time performing reside.
“It was Song to Woody, which is one of my favourite Bob Dylan songs ever,” he recalled. “It was the first one we shot in the movie. You couldn’t do it to a playback because it’s such an intimate scene. It’s in a hospital room with Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger. And I did it live and it went great. And I’m making mistakes in the guitar a little bit here and there, but you can kind of fill those in after. I went home and I wept that night, not to be dramatic, but it’s a song I’d been living with for years and something I could relate to deeply.”
The Oscar-nominated actor added that the film felt admire “the most dignified work (he’d) ever done” because he modified into as soon as bringing to life moments that came about “67 years ago”.
During the interview, the 28-300 and sixty five days-extinct moreover published that he learned to play 13 Dylan songs for the movie. He spent six months in Los Angeles pre-recording his vocals, however those were indirectly discarded in favour of singing reside on the day.
While it modified into as soon as a nerve-wracking prospect, Chalamet felt admire “something clicked in (his) voice” performing reside as against recording in a studio.
“There was a certain rawness. Those microphones, those old school microphones we were using when playing in concert halls, I could get the strum better and I could get how he was singing,” he famed.
A Total Unknown will be released in U.S. cinemas on 25 December and in the U.Okay. on 17 January.
