Bob Dylan has praised the casting of Timothée Chalamet as his youthful self within the new biopic A Full Unknown, calling him a “good actor.”

Within the movie from Logan director James Mangold, the 28-year-old actor portrays Dylan, now 83, as a younger people artist arriving in New York Metropolis in 1961 by way of to his contentious embrace of electrical rock’n’roll in 1965.

Writing on X/Twitter, Dylan mentioned: “There’s a film about me opening quickly known as A Full Unknown (what a title!). Timothee Chalamet is starring within the lead function. Timmy’s an excellent actor so I’m certain he’s going to be utterly plausible as me. Or a youthful me. Or another me.”

He added: “The movie’s taken from Elijah Wald’s Dylan Goes Electrical — a e-book that got here out in 2015. It’s a improbable retelling of occasions from the early ‘60s that led as much as the fiasco at Newport. After you’ve seen the film learn the e-book.”

Final month, Chalamet revealed he was moved to tears after performing in character as Dylan.

Talking on the Zane Lowe Present on Apple Music 1, Chalamet defined that he sings and performs guitar in character as Dylan all through the movie as he recalled his first expertise of acting on set.

“It was ‘Track to Woody,’ which is one in all my favourite Bob Dylan songs ever,” mentioned Chalamet. “It was the primary one we shot within the film. You couldn’t do it to a playback as a result of it’s such an intimate scene. It’s in a hospital room with Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger. And I did it stay.”

Chalamet remembered being nervous concerning the efficiency, saying: “I’m making errors within the guitar a little bit bit right here and there, however you may type of fill these in after.

“I went residence and I wept that night time, to not be dramatic, however it’s a track I’d been residing with for years and one thing I may relate to deeply. And I additionally felt, I come again to this phrase rather a lot, I felt prefer it was probably the most dignified work I’d ever achieved.”

“And dignity is likely to be a bizarre phrase there, however it felt like so dignified and humble, we’re simply bringing life to a factor that occurred 67 years in the past. I went, oh, in fact, Leo and Daniel Day-Lewis. In fact, they do these biopics. It type of all clicked as a result of there’s dignity to it. You’re not pulling out skinny air, this occurred.”

Dylan has grow to be uncharacteristically energetic on social media in the previous couple of months, not too long ago posting about his appreciation of a Nick Cave lyric.