Bob Dylan shrugs his way to endorsing Timothée Chalamet
"Timmy’s a brilliant actor so I’m sure he’s going to be completely believable as me," Dylan wrote with the tone of a man who will never, ever see this movie.
Few pop culture legends are better at not giving a shit about things he doesn’t give a shit about than Bob Dylan. There might have been a time, earlier in his career, when Dylan’s disinterest in any number of topics might have come off as rude, or maybe even performative. But the man has now well-and-truly aged into the sort of sublime, cheerful indifference to shit he doesn’t care about that younger men can only aspire to hold. Take, for instance, Dylan’s brief assessment of James Mangold’s upcoming movie about him, A Complete Unknown, which he approaches (via social media) with the same energy that a normal person might bring to hearing that the circus is in town. (That is, polite interest, along with a strong inclination to never actually go see it.)
