The outcome has already gathered no scarcity of crucial and awards consideration: As of being named our 2024 Movie Performer of the Yr, Chalamet has additionally been nominated for a Golden Globe and obtained a particular accolade from the Gotham Awards, along with recognition from varied critics teams. Edward Norton, additionally receiving his personal popularity of his efficiency as folks legend and activist Pete Seeger, was equally impressed.
“I used to be delighted at simply the depth of his focus and seriousness, it is every thing,” Norton tells sondramedia. “As a comrade in arms and an ally, he was creating, by way of power of will and insistence and setting, an funding within the work. That does not all the time occur, and I liked it.”
One thing that Chalamet calls “fantastically” useful was collaborating with the remainder of the solid, every enjoying different notable figures in Dylan’s life from 1961 to 1965. “That is actually an ensemble film in my estimation,” he says. “It is as a lot about Greenwich Village in that point interval, and the characters on display screen like Johnny Money or Joan Baez, or Sylvia Russo or Pete Seeger, and the way they impacted Bob and the way they impacted him in numerous durations as a lot as he did them.”
Chalamet provides that “everybody carried the flag of their character — in different phrases, everybody fiercely defended their character and what their standpoint would’ve been. It introduced fact to what the scenes and the story wanted, as a result of when these items was taking place within the ’60s, Joan Baez and Sylvie Russo and Pete Seeger… They did not really feel like they have been within the Bob Dylan film.”
Monica Barbaro says that whereas she was “such a Timothée Chalamet fan earlier than,” enjoying Joan Baez reverse him gave her a complete new appreciation. “He labored so extremely exhausting on this. I’ve a lot respect for every thing he did for this movie, and I feel he is effectively deserving of the entire constructive suggestions he is getting now.”
Like the opposite actors within the movie, Barbaro additionally confronted the problem of increase her musical proficiency so she “may really feel assured sufficient to sing these songs reside. I did not have any singing or guitar expertise prior, so for me it was nearly actually attending to a spot the place I felt like I may correctly characterize all of what Joan was — she was such a talented musician.”
Aptly, the primary time Barbaro and Chalamet met face-to-face was for a music rehearsal, after that they had each been making ready on their very own for a while. “That was a profession spotlight for me,” she says. “It was simply unimaginable to belief the accompaniment of our mutual guitars and have our siloed musical coaching come collectively and make these beautiful harmonies. Such a stunning expertise.”
For her, connecting first by way of the music felt like the fitting alternative. “There are specific conditions the place it helps to seize a espresso with an individual and get to know them,” she says. “On this state of affairs, I feel it was excellent that we did not meet till we had a larger understanding of the music. We had a extremely deep understanding of who we have been portraying and we may kind of simply belief that each one of that work would come collectively and we might be current with the scene. Our private lives have been out of the way in which, and we bought to actually simply expertise the second as authentically as attainable, as our variations of Bob and Joan.”
Trying again on the filming expertise, Barbaro notably liked attending to carry out “It Ain’t Me, Babe” with Chalamet. “We did that at some extent within the movie the place we have been simply very assured in our music abilities, and we had each carried out rather a lot for reside audiences… It was this whirlwind, excited second the place we had solely so many takes, and it was simply infused with life and a variety of enjoyable.”
