Re: Relentless comments

 > cpyle4bob wrote:
 > Interesting read, from Rolling Stone:
 > Timoth�e Chalamet Was `Relentless� in Trying to Stay Immersed as
Bob
 > Dylan, Says Edward Norton: `No Visitors, No Friends, No Reps.
Nobody
 > Comes Around Us While We�re Doing This�
 >  > Elle Fanning told Rolling Stone as part of its new Timoth�e
Chalamet
 > cover story that she was warned before filming "A Complete
Unknown" that
 > Chalamet would mostly "keep to himself" on set while
playing Bob Dylan.
 > In order to become the music icon, Chalamet tried his hardest to
stay
 > immersed in Dylan�s shoes, so much so that the call sheet referred
to
 > Chalamet as "Bob Dylan" and not as his real name. Fanning
got tricked in
 > pre-production when she was invited to meet with director James
Mangold
 > and "Bob."
 > "I was thinking about all these things to say and ask,"
Fanning said
 > about the prospect of meeting with the real Dylan. "I was
picking out my
 > outfit. `I�m meeting Bob Dylan today!�"
 > Then Fanning went to set and discovered that "Bob Dylan"
as listed was
 > actually Timoth�e Chalamet as Bob Dylan. She wisecracked: "I�m
probably
 > the first person in life to be let down by having a rehearsal with
 > Timoth�e Chalamet, right? Like, the first girl in history."
 >  > Monica Barbaro plays Joan Baez in "A Complete Unknown"
and told Rolling
 > Stone that she first met Chalamet when he was already Bob Dylan.
 > "It wasn�t so full-on," Barbaro said of Chalamet�s Method
acting. "It
 > wasn�t `Don�t look him in the eye� or anything like that. We said
hi,
 > gave each other a hug. I was like, `I just saw Dune!� [But Chalamet
did
 > stay] in his own world [on set] in a way that I think Bob often was
as
 > well. And it was actually really conducive to the dynamic between
Bob
 > and Joan."
 > Barbaro remembered there was one day when the she was chatting
with
 > Chalamet about everyday things in between takes, only for Mangold
to
 > note that Chalamet�s Dylan voice was starting to slip. "And at
that
 > point I think we both were just like, `Nope, no more
talking!�" she
 > recalled.
 > Edward Norton stars in the film as Pete Seeger and says Chalamet
was
 > "relentless" in making sure he could stay immersed as
Dylan, adding: "No
 > visitors, no friends, no reps, no nothing. `Nobody comes around us
while
 > we�re doing this.� We�re trying to do the best we can with
something
 > that�s so totemic and sacrosanct to many people. And I agreed
totally -
 > it was like, we cannot have a f***ing audience for this. We�ve got
to
 > believe to the greatest degree we can. And he was right to be that
 > protective."
 > Chalamet did not get into full detail about his Method acting
during the
 > Rolling Stone interview, but he did admit that staying immersed as
the
 > character was in part a desire to return to his acting roots and to
a
 > time "when people aren�t curious about how you go about your
work,
 > because they don�t know who you are yet. Which is how the
experience was
 > for me on `Call Me by Your Name.�"
 > "It was something I would go to sleep panicked about: losing a
moment of
 > discovery as the character - no matter how pretentious that sounds
-
 > because I was on my phone or because of any distraction,"
Chalamet
 > added. "I had three months of my life to play Bob Dylan, after
five
 > years of preparing to play him. So while I was in it, that was my
 > eternal focus. He deserved that and then more.... God forbid I
missed a
 > step because I was being Timmy. I could be Timmy for the rest of
my
 > life!"
Really looking forward to seeing this movie.
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