How Oscar Nominee Timothee Chalamet Learned To Play Guitar Like Bob Dylan For A Complete Unknown
Larry Saltzman taught Timothée Chalamet how to play guitar for the role of Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown.
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Chalamet earned a best actor nomination and the film is also up for best picture at the 97th Academy Awards.
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Saltzman has developed a specialty in teaching actors how to play music for their roles. He has also taught Adam Driver and Sadie Sink of Stranger Things.
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Saltzman had more than 50 sessions with Chalamet, starting in person and retreating to Zoom during the pandemic.
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"It wasn’t easy," Saltzman said. Chalamet had to learn some 25 songs in the script.
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“Sometime in 2018 I had my first lesson with this great guitar teacher named Larry Saltzman who is co-sanity artist through COVID,” Chalamet recalled.
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In the course of their sessions, Chalamet “went the extra mile” and unearthed “very early, obscure” Bob Dylan songs that weren’t even in the script.
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Chalamet recently became the youngest actor to win the SAG Awards in the leading actor category for The Complete Unknown.
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“I poured everything I had into playing this incomparable artist, Mr. Bob Dylan, a true American hero. It was the honor of a lifetime playing him,” the actor said.
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"The truth is, I’m really in pursuit of greatness. I know people don’t usually talk like that, but I want to be one of the greats," he added.