TIMOTHEE CHALAMET BECOMING ROB DYLAN

THE ACTOR SPENT FIVE YEARS PERFECTING HIS GUITAR AND HARMONICA-AND SINGING!-SKILLS TO TRANSFORM INTO THE MUSIC LEGEND HE CALLS 'VERY INSPIRING'

- JULIE JORDAN

CONSUMMATE PROFESSIONAL "You don't have to say much. If you're giving him a note or an adjustment, he understands you very fast," says director James Mangold of Chalamet. "He's kind of a wonder." Inset: the real Dylan in 1961.

Director James Mangold had high hopes that Timothée Chalamet could portray music legend Bob Dylan in his film A Complete Unknown. But it wasn't until they first shot the actor singing live while playing guitar that Mangold knew Chalamet had pulled it off. “He was phenomenal,” recalls Mangold, who also directed the 2005 Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line. “And I remember being elated and this kind of weight lifting from my chest, knowing my instincts were right, and this young man was going to be awesome.”