Timothée Chalamet doesn't want to cosplay Bob Dylan in exclusive behind-the-scenes clip

While filming A Complete Unknown, Timothée Chalamet mirrored Bob Dylan’s voice so closely that his costar, Monica Barbaro (Joan Baez), said she repeatedly had to ask if recordings were “a Bob or a Timmy.” Despite really pinpointing his inner bard, however, Chalamet never set out to do a one-to-one impression of the “Blowin’ In The Wind” singer. In fact, director James Mangold explicitly advised against it. 

The A.V. Club can exclusively share a behind-the-scenes clip from A Complete Unknown‘s upcoming digital release, in which Mangold and newly-minted SAG Award winner Chalamet discuss the philosophy behind the latter’s Oscar-nominated performance. “One of the greatest things I think I can offer the actor playing an iconic role like this is peace. A kind of zen,” Mangold says, explaining that he gave the same guidance to Joaquin Phoenix on the set of Walk The Line. “I don’t want mimicry,” he continues. “I want Timmy to bring who he is to Bob.”