Timothée Chalamet has been nominated for an Academy Award for his portrayal of Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown, a movie in which he disappears into character via an array of jaw-dropping, period-correct Gibson acoustic guitars – but should he take home the Oscar on 2 March, he might want to thank Yamaha too, because he learned to play on one of its entry-level models.
Speaking to MusicRadar, Larry Saltzman, the session ace who taught Chalamet to play, recalls the actor didn’t even have a guitar when he first approached him for lessons. “I told him, ‘Show up without a guitar. I have a couple of guitars for us,’” says Saltzman.
