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"I went home and I wept that night": Actor Timothée Chalamet on filming the emotional scene in which Bob Dylan visits the ailing Woody Guthrie in hospital and plays him a song

Timothee Chalamet on location for the Bob Dylan biopic titled A Complete Unknown on March 24, 2024 .

Actor Timothée Chalamet has talked about the emotional impact of working on the upcoming Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, which tells the story of the singer-songwriter's controversial switch to electric instruments in 1965.

Speaking with Apple Music's Zane Lowe (full conversation below), Chalamet talks about the shooting of a scene set four years earlier, when Dylan visits his hero, the folk singer Woody Guthrie, at Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital in New Jersey, and plays him a song he's written entitled Song To Woody. Guthrie, who had been a patient at the hospital since 1956, was suffering from Huntingdon's disease, a genetic neurodegenerative condition.

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