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Bob Dylan's had a lot of creative control in the making of his biopic A Complete Unknown, and according to one of the film's stars Edward Norton (who plays Pete Seeger), the legendary singer-songwriter "insisted on [adding] at least one totally inaccurate scene." According to the actor, who wouldn't disclose exactly what part(s) of the film he was referring to, told Rolling Stone that Dylan took “obvious pleasure in obfuscation and distortion.”
“He’s such a troublemaker,” he quipped.
Norton also noted that director and co-writer James Mangold pushed back on Dylan's suggestion, expressing worry about what viewers would think, to which he replied: "What do you care what other people think?"
Timothée Chalamet, who plays Dylan in the biopic, also spoke to the publication about how impressed he was with the musician's contributions to the script. “Bob would [insert] these one-off lines that were so fantastic," the actor gushed. "[Mangold] has an annotated Bob script lying around somewhere. I’ll beg him to get my hands on it. He’ll never give it to me.”
Elsewhere in the story, the film's co-star Elle Fanning, who plays Sylvie Russo, recalled being tricked into thinking she was going to meet Dylan on the set because Chalamet went by his name on the call sheet. "I was thinking about all these things to say and ask. I was picking out my outfit. 'I'm meeting Bob Dylan today!'" she divulged. "I'm probably the first person in life to be let down by having a rehearsal with Timothée Chalamet, right? Like, the first girl in history."
A Complete Unknown hits theaters on December 25.