Edward Norton calls Timothée Chalamet “Relentless” who plays Bob Dylan in Biopic

Timothée Chalamet immersed himself as Bob Dylan in the biopic A complete unknownwhich his fellow players supported.

In a new interview, co-star Edward Norton opened up about Chalamet’s process for playing the singer-songwriter in the James Mangold-directed film.

In the new issue of Rolling Stone with Chalamet on the cover, Says Norton: “He was relentless. No visitors, no friends, no reps, no nothing. ‘Nobody’s coming around us while we’re doing this.’ We’re trying to do the best we can with something that’s so totemic and sacred to a lot of people.”

Norton continued: “And I totally agreed – it was like, we can’t have a f***ing audience for this. We’ve got to believe to the highest degree that we can. And he was right to be that protective.”

Chalamet noted that he learned from Christian Bale in Hostile and Oscar Isaac in Dune how they “guard their process” while working as he applied i A complete unknown.

“It was something I would fall asleep in a panic over: losing a moment of discovery as the character — as pretentious as that sounds — because I was on my phone or because of any distraction,” Chalamet said. “I had three months of my life to play Bob Dylan after five years of preparation to play him. So while I was at it, that was my eternal focus. He deserved it and more… God forbid I missed out one step because I was Timmy. I could be Timmy for the rest of my life!”

A complete unknown also starring Elle Fanning and Monica Barbara, among many others. The film premieres in theaters on December 25.