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New trailer shows Timothée Chalamet singing Bob Dylan songs in biopic A Complete Unknown

Chalamet plays the folk singer at the time he was courting controversy by playing electric guitar. Elle Fanning and Edward Norton co-star

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Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan on the set of A Complete Unknown.Elle Fanning and Edward Norton co-star in the Dylan biopic directed by James Mangold. Photo: Instagram/@timothee.hee

Actor Timothée Chalamet does his best Bob Dylan impression in the official trailer for the coming biopic A Complete Unknown.

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The clip shows the 28-year-old actor singing songs including “Girl from the North Country” and “Like a Rolling Stone” while making his way through Lower Manhattan with Monica Barbaro, who plays fellow folk star Joan Baez.

The film, which details Dylan’s rise to rock ’n’ roll stardom, also features Elle Fanning and Edward Norton.

A Complete Unknown, named after a lyric from “Like a Rolling Stone”, hits cinemas on Christmas Day. It’s directed by James Mangold, whose credits also include the Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line, starring Joaquin Phoenix.

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Manhold’s new Dylan film will reunite him with Cash, sort of. In his latest movie about musicians, Cash is played by Boyd Holbrook.

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