Five minutes of Walk Hard scared the Bob Dylan out of Timothée Chalamet

Your honor, may Timothée Chalamet approach the bench. Chalamet is guilty as charged, having committed one of the worst crimes an actor can do before starring in a biopic: He watched five minutes of Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. The results are unsurprising. The film scared the hell out of him.

Speaking to Zane Lowe, Chalamet revealed that he “made the mistake of watching five minutes of [Walk Hard]” before starting A Complete Unknown and went, “Oh my God, I’ll never be able to do this.” Walk Hard, Chalamet says, “brutally” mirrors the beats of Walk The Line, James Mangold’s 2005 Johnny Cash biopic. However, using the Walk Hard example, Chalamet reveals how this movie differs from other biopics. “This movie does not demystify the cult of Bob,” Chalamet says, compared to Walk The Line, which is a “little more clear from a narrative perspective.” Still, he’s a little concerned that the ever-contrarian Bob Dylan thinks the movie “must be a piece of shit.”