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Timothée Chalamet is taking Method dressing to the next level.
The actor, 28, recreated Bob Dylan’s look from a 2003 Sundance Film Festival event at the premiere of A Complete Unknown in New York City on Friday, December 13.
Chalamet plays a younger version of Dylan, 83, in the biopic of the legendary musician. He showed up to the SVA Theatre sporting sandy blond hair with bangs — a wig, apparently — that specifically nodded to Dylan’s hairstyle at the Sundance photo-call for the drama Masked and Anonymous, in which the rock icon starred.
Like Dylan at the time, Chalamet wore a black leather jacket atop a red-and-blue plaid shirt — accessorizing with a black and gray scarf as well as a blue knit hat that covered those bronze locks. But while Dylan’s mustache was graying in the photo that inspired Chalamet’s sartorial tribute, the Dune star kept his facial hair dark — just like his original hair color.
Earlier this month, Dylan officially weighed in on the biopic via X, writing, “Timmy’s a brilliant actor so I’m sure he’s going to be completely believable as me. Or a younger me. Or some other me.”
He continued: “The film’s taken from Elijah Wald’s Dylan Goes Electric — a book that came out in 2015. It’s a fantastic retelling of events from the early ‘60s that led up to the fiasco at Newport. After you’ve seen the movie read the book.”
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Though it was unclear whether Dylan had seen the film, his praise warmed Chalamet’s heart. In response, Chalamet gushed, “Floored. I am so grateful. Thank you Bob.”
He also posted a screenshot of Dylan’s tweet via his Instagram Story on Thursday, December 5. “Screaming crying laughing screaming laughing pooping screaming crying,” he wrote alongside the snap. “THANK YOU BOB!!!! DREAM COME TRUE!!!!”
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A Complete Unknown, which hits theaters Christmas Day, follows Dylan from the beginning of his career in 1960s New York to his famous electric guitar performance of “Like a Rolling Stone” at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival.
Dylan is not directly involved with the project, though director James Mangold told Rolling Stone last month that he sat down with the singer-songwriter multiple times before filming began.
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“Bob would have these one-off lines that were so fantastic,” Chalamet told the outlet in a joint interview with Mangold, 60. “Jim has an annotated Bob script lying around somewhere. I’ll beg him to get my hands on it. He’ll never give it to me.”
Mangold noted that he “felt like Bob just wanted to know what I was up to,” adding, “’Who is this guy? Is he a s—head? Does he get it?’ — I think the normal questions anyone asks when they’re throwing themselves in league with someone.”