Timothee Chalamet wears suede jacket and smokes a cigarette as he becomes young Bob Dylan to shoot scene for biopic A Complete Unknown in New York City
The shoot for the much-anticipated epic musical drama about Bob Dylan, A Complete Unknown, kicked off just over a week ago in New York City.
And on Sunday some of the cast and crew were back at it again, filming a scene with Timothée Chalamet as the burgeoning leader of the new folk music revival in the 1960s.
The leading man was first spotted mingling around behind-the-scenes on the set, and then parked on a city bench by himself before the cameras started rolling.
Considering the storyline begins after Dylan has dropped out of college to travel New York City in January 1961, Chalamet is decked out in the musician's beatnik style of the day in a brown suede jacket with a two-toned brown button-down shirt and blue jeans.
The Blowin' In The Wind star was also dressed in old brown cowboy boots, while stylists had his dark brown locks styled up high and off his face.
![Timothée Chalamet, 28, was back out on the streets of New York City to shoot another scene for the epic musical drama, A Complete Unknown, about a young and upcoming Bob Dylan](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/24/22/82840709-0-image-a-7_1711319314342.jpg)
Timothée Chalamet, 28, was back out on the streets of New York City to shoot another scene for the epic musical drama, A Complete Unknown, about a young and upcoming Bob Dylan
![Stylists had the French-American actor decked out in a classic Dylan look in a brown sueded jacket over a two-tone brown shirt and blue jeans](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/25/00/82840705-13234125-image-a-32_1711325265231.jpg)
![Chalamet also had his dark brown locks styled high up off his face like the real singer-songwriter](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/25/00/82843099-13234125-image-m-31_1711325254443.jpg)
Stylists had the French-American actor decked out in a classic Dylan look in a brown sueded jacket over a two-tone brown shirt and blue jeans. Chalamet also had his dark brown locks styled high up off his face like the real singer-songwriter
![The leading man say on a city bench reading a letter and smoking a cigarette for the scene, decked out in Dylan's so-cal beatnik style of the day in 1961](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/24/22/82840699-0-image-m-11_1711319385342.jpg)
The leading man say on a city bench reading a letter and smoking a cigarette for the scene, decked out in Dylan's so-cal beatnik style of the day in 1961
The focus for the day appeared to be the scene of Dylan (Chalamet) sitting on the bench in the city smoking a cigarette as he read a letter to read with a small bag stationed next to him.
The scenery was spot-on for the time period with extras dressed for the era, while old retro automobiles of the 1950s were either parked or driving around the actor.
Timothee was spotted shooting into the night.
Directed by James Mangold, who's working from a screenplay he co-wrote with Jay Cocks, the filmmaker maintains the 'movie isn't really a Bob Dylan biopic', due to it being focused on a period of the singer-songwriter's life, according to Rolling Stone.
The Duluth, Minnesota native had just arrived in Manhattan for give a performance and to hopefully meet up with his musical idol Woody Guthrie, who was seriously ill at the time with Huntington's disease in Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital.
Mangold, who previously directed and co-wrote the Johnnie Cash biopic Walk The Line with Joaquin Phoenix as the Man In Black, no only has the complete support of the real Bob Dylan, he also got to meet with him several times to pick his brain to help formulate the story.
'I've spent several wonderfully charming days in his company, just one-on-one, talking to him,' the writer and director said last year. 'He loves movies.'
After revealing he doesn't consider the production a biopic, he proceeds to give a brief synopsis of the opening of the film.
'It's a kind of an ensemble piece about this moment in time, the early '60s in New York, and this 17-year-old kid with $16 in his pockets hitchhikes his way to New York to meet Woody Guthrie who is in the hospital,' Mangold, 60, said.
![The shoot for A Complete Unknown began on March 16 after being delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic and the SAG-AFTRA strike last year](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/24/22/82840713-0-image-a-9_1711319319202.jpg)
The shoot for A Complete Unknown began on March 16 after being delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic and the SAG-AFTRA strike last year
![The focus for the day appeared to be the scene of Dylan (Chalamet) sitting on the bench in the city smoking a cigarette as he read a letter to read with a small bag stationed next to him](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/24/22/82840711-0-image-m-14_1711319451155.jpg)
The focus for the day appeared to be the scene of Dylan (Chalamet) sitting on the bench in the city smoking a cigarette as he read a letter to read with a small bag stationed next to him
![The scenery was spot-on for the time period with extras dressed for the era, while old retro automobiles of the 1950s were either parked or driving around the actor](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/24/22/82840717-0-image-m-15_1711319475037.jpg)
The scenery was spot-on for the time period with extras dressed for the era, while old retro automobiles of the 1950s were either parked or driving around the actor
The title, A Complete Unknown, is actually one of the defining lyrics to the chorus of one of Dylan's most popular songs, Like A Rolling Stone, which he didn't write and release until after he went electric in 1965.
'How does it feel? / how does it feel? / To be without a home / Like a complete unknown / like a rolling stone,' he sings in the all time classic.
Mangold previously revealed that Chalamet will do his own singing in the film. In fact, he has hired the same vocal and dialect coaches that worked with Austin Butler for his acclaimed performance in the biopic, Elvis (2022).
The cast for A Complete Unknown also stars Elle Fanning (Sylvie Russo), Monica Barbaro (Joan Baez), Nick Offerman (Alan Lomax )and Boyd Holbrook (Johnny Cash), Edward Norton (Pete Seeger) and P. J. Byrne (Harold Leventhal).
Not long after arriving in New York, Dylan gets embraced by the New York folk scene (Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, and others) who recognize his talents both as a musician and as a songwriter and lyricist.
Dylan's style increasingly added sophisticated lyrical techniques to the folk music of the early 1960s, infusing it 'with the intellectualism of classic literature and poetry.'
And it wouldn't be long before his words incorporated lots of political, social, and philosophical influences, defying the old pop music conventions in order to appeal more to the burgeoning counterculture movement.
After gigging around the Downtown Manhattan scene full of clubs, he soon becomes a local sensation and ends up signing a record deal with Columbia Records.
![Actress Monica Barbaro, 33, plays folk music contemporary and activist Joan Baez in the musical drama](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/25/00/82842549-13234125-image-m-43_1711325448980.jpg)
![Baez is seen with Dylan in 1965](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/25/00/82844009-13234125-image-m-45_1711325467661.jpg)
Actress Monica Barbaro, 33, plays folk music contemporary and activist Joan Baez in the musical drama. Baez is seen with Dylan in 1965 on the right
![The Duluth, Minnesota native had just arrived in Manhattan for give a performance and to hopefully meet up with his musical idol Woody Guthrie, who was seriously ill at the time with Huntington's disease in Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/24/22/82840707-0-image-m-13_1711319431340.jpg)
The Duluth, Minnesota native had just arrived in Manhattan for give a performance and to hopefully meet up with his musical idol Woody Guthrie, who was seriously ill at the time with Huntington's disease in Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital
![Edward Norton, 54, who portray folk singer and activist Pete Seeger, was also seen shooting on Sunday in the streets of Manhattan](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/25/00/82844047-13234125-image-m-53_1711325659990.jpg)
![Seeger is pictured around 1960 on the right](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/25/00/82842985-13234125-image-a-54_1711325666982.jpg)
Edward Norton, 54, who portray folk singer and activist Pete Seeger, was also seen shooting on Sunday in the streets of Manhattan. Seeger is pictured around 1960 on the right
![Directed by James Mangold, who's working from a screenplay he co-wrote with Jay Cocks, the filmmaker maintains the 'movie isn't really a Bob Dylan biopic', due to it being focused on a period of the singer-songwriter's life, according to Rolling Stone](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/25/00/82842545-13234125-image-a-71_1711327968532.jpg)
Directed by James Mangold, who's working from a screenplay he co-wrote with Jay Cocks, the filmmaker maintains the 'movie isn't really a Bob Dylan biopic', due to it being focused on a period of the singer-songwriter's life, according to Rolling Stone
![The leading man was also spotted making is way around the set to and from his trailer](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/25/00/82840697-13234125-image-m-27_1711325172471.jpg)
The leading man was also spotted making is way around the set to and from his trailer
![The title, A Complete Unknown, is one of the defining lyrics to the chorus of one of Dylan's most popular songs, Like A Rolling Stone, which he wrote and release until after he went electric in 1965](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/25/00/82840703-13234125-image-a-24_1711325137586.jpg)
![Chalamet is doing his own singing for the production](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/25/00/82840701-13234125-image-m-23_1711325129245.jpg)
The title, A Complete Unknown, is one of the defining lyrics to the chorus of one of Dylan's most popular songs, Like A Rolling Stone, which he wrote and release until after he went electric in 1965. Chalamet is doing his own singing for the production
![Timothee was spotted shooting into the night](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/25/05/82849415-13234125-image-a-161_1711343977710.jpg)
Timothee was spotted shooting into the night
![He bore an uncanny resemblance to Dylan](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/25/05/82849423-13234125-image-a-162_1711344008697.jpg)
He bore an uncanny resemblance to Dylan
![He channeled Dylan's 1960's transitional period style, where the singer started incorporating slimmer-fitting pants and Chelsea boots into his look as he moved towards rock music](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/25/05/82849421-13234125-image-a-163_1711344060055.jpg)
He channeled Dylan's 1960's transitional period style, where the singer started incorporating slimmer-fitting pants and Chelsea boots into his look as he moved towards rock music
![The actor sported a pair of black sunglasses](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/25/05/82849417-13234125-image-a-164_1711344196089.jpg)
The actor sported a pair of black sunglasses
![He was spotted walking down the street](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/25/05/82849419-13234125-image-a-165_1711344222048.jpg)
He was spotted walking down the street
![He got out of a classic vintage car](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/25/05/82849427-13234125-image-a-166_1711344235936.jpg)
He got out of a classic vintage car
![Kylie Jenner's boyfriend had a cigarette in his mouth as he exited the vehicle](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/25/05/82849429-13234125-image-a-167_1711344250707.jpg)
Kylie Jenner's boyfriend had a cigarette in his mouth as he exited the vehicle
![So far, A Complete Unknown does not yet have a premiere date](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/25/05/82849425-13234125-image-a-168_1711344279985.jpg)
So far, A Complete Unknown does not yet have a premiere date
![He rocked a mop of curly dark hair, just like the music icon](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/25/05/82849409-13234125-image-a-169_1711344369910.jpg)
He rocked a mop of curly dark hair, just like the music icon
![The actor carefully crossed the street](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/25/05/82849413-13234125-image-a-170_1711344424737.jpg)
The actor carefully crossed the street
![Monica was also on set for the night shoot](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/25/05/82849461-13234125-image-a-171_1711344472875.jpg)
Monica was also on set for the night shoot
![The actress was pictured holding a guitar case and luggage](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/25/05/82849457-13234125-image-a-176_1711344518333.jpg)
![She was seen waving down a taxi](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/25/05/82849465-13234125-image-m-175_1711344512715.jpg)
She was seen waving down a taxi while holding a guitar case and luggage
The story follows Dylan's ascendance into a cultural phenomenon, his strong relationships in the folk music world, and his ultimate transition away from folk music, that saw him plug in and go electric and hire rock musicians for his album Bringing It All Back Home (1965).
It was Dylan's first album to incorporate electric instrumentation, which caused controversy and divided many fans and those in the contemporary folk scene.
With more than 145 million record sold, Bob Dylan is considered among the best-selling musical artists of all time.
So far, A Complete Unknown does not yet have a premiere date.