“Ed Norton was telling me stories about how to keep props. I was like, ‘I’m not stealing this guitar!’” Monica Barbaro played Joan Baez alongside Timothée Chalamet’s Bob Dylan – and her co-star encouraged her to take the 1929 Martin she used onscreen

US Folk singer Joan Baez gives a concert on the parvis of Notre Dame de Paris cathedral on Christmas Eve in front of 25000 Parisians on December 24, 1980. AFP PHOTO PIERRE GUILLAUD.

Monica Barbaro – who stars as Joan Baez alongside Timothée Chalamet’s Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown – has opened up about her acoustic guitar experiences while playing the folk hero in the hugely popular biopic.

Directed by James Mangold, the film follows Chalamet as he charts Dylan’s rise from aspiring singer-songwriter to world-conquering folk hero, leading right up to the point he sent shockwaves through the folk community by “going electric” at the Newport Folk Festival.