Timothée Chalamet is a “masterful” Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown. In a recent review of the movie, British Vogue’s film and culture editor Radhika Seth writes: “His portrayal is an entirely committed, deep-seated, almost cellular embodiment, entirely different from anything he’s ever done before and a move which heralds the beginning of an exciting new chapter in his career as he transitions from playing floppy-haired boys to real, complicated men.” It’s a sentence which might also be read across Chalamet’s little moustache: Not so much a symbol of masculine gruff as a free agent coming of age.
Last night, the actor was photographed at the Los Angeles premiere of the biopic demonstrating the fruits of his growth. Chalamet posed alongside cast mates Edward Norton, Elle Fanning, and Monica Barbaro in an attenuated leather jacket—encircled with several Bob Dylan pins around its breast pocket, from which the Nobel Prize winner’s signature Ray-Ban Wayfarers were also suspended—a top-buttoned shirt, slim-cut jeans, and Chelsea boots. He looked like an aspirant folk-rock musician, a descendant of Cisco Houston, who Dylan himself referred to as “handsome and dashing with a pencil thin moustache,” in his 2004 memoir Chronicles: Volume I.
