Costumer Teases If Timothée Chalamet Wears Any of Bob Dylan’s Actual Clothes inA Complete Unknown(Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Timothee Chalamet on the set of ‘A Complete Unknown’ on April 09, 2024 in Paterson, New Jersey.Photo:James Devaney/GC Images

James Devaney/GC Images

Bob Dylanis keeping a tight hold on his clothes.

When asked if she got her hands on any authentic Dylan clothes, Phillips, 61, says, “No, I didn’t.”

She continues to say that she tried “a few times,” but had no luck.

Arianne Phillips at the 92nd Annual Academy Awards on February 9, 2020.David Fisher/Shutterstock

The designer, who also worked with director James Mangold on hisJohnny CashbiopicWalk the Line, says that the experience isn’t unique. “OnWalk the Line, I didn’t have access to Johnny Cash or June Carter’s costumes either,” she shares.

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Phillips faced similar challenges while working onMadonna’s historical romantic dramaW.E., which mainly takes place in the 1930s and follows several real-life figures, as well asQuentin Tarantino’sOnce Upon a Time in Hollywoodabout two actors in Hollywood in the late 1960s, but ultimately had more access to resources on both.

“But in this case, no, I didn’t get to,” Phillips continues. “I don’t think Bob [Dylan] wanted to give up his clothes. They’re hanging in his closet.”

Speaking about working with Chalamet on his transformation into Dylan, she says he “was so generous with his time and he would come for fitting before or after recording music or a vocal lesson or a guitar lesson.”

The costume designer — who also recently worked onJoker: Folie à Deux— adds that the actor took up numerous skills for the role, such as learning how to play guitar and harmonica.

Timothée Chalamet on the set of ‘A Complete Unknown’.Macall Polay/Searchlight Pictures

Macall Polay/Searchlight Pictures

“He is very focused, very generous with his time and he’s a dream collaborator, really,” Phillips says. “He had almost 70 costume changes in this film, which requires a lot of fitting time. I can’t imagine anyone else playing this role.”

Phillips feels that theDunestar’s role in the movie and “reverence” for the “Blowin’ in the Wind” singer will “inspire a lot of young people who maybe don’t know who Bob Dylan is.”

The biopic follows Dylan’s arrival to New York City at 19 years old in the early 1960s.

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The synopsis teases, “As he forms his most intimate relationships during his rise to fame, he grows restless with the folk movement and, refusing to be defined, makes a controversial choice that culturally reverberates worldwide.”

A Complete Unknownis in theaters Dec. 25.

source: people.com