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“There are 40 songs in the movie that he performs,” Berger notes.
“On guitar, on harmonica, and singing live take after take after take.”
Edward Norton as Pete Seeger (L) and Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan in ‘A Complete Unknown.'.Macall Polay/Searchlight Pictures
“It was important for me to sing and play live,” Chalamet adds.
“Because if I can actually do it, why should there be an element of artifice here?
And Im proud that we took that leap.”
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Like Chalamet, each actor sang and played their own instruments.
“Getting to learn and play the music itself was a huge hook for me,” adds Norton.
For her part, Fanning was blown away by Chalamet’s commitment to live performance.
“I had goosebumps,” she says in the featurette.
Barbaro tellsEntertainment Weeklyshe was similarly wowed by Chalamet.
“It was really incredible to watch him perform these songs,” she says.
The film strives for period accuracy in every way, using authentic microphones and instruments from the era.
“We’ve done the movie a hundred percent live,” says sound mixer Tod Maitland.
“No earpiece, no timing mechanism or anything.”
But what unites them all is their relationship to Bob.
All of these characters have an absolutely tremendous effect on each other at this moment.
Each of them are talents blossoming in this turbulent moment in the country and rising together to stardom.
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