"Timmy’s a brilliant actor so I’m sure he’s going to be completely believable as me." The love-in between Bob Dylan and Hollywood star Timothée Chalamet, who's playing Dylan in the forthcoming biopic A Complete Unknown, is a pure and precious thing

Bob Dylan and Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan.

Bob Dylan has stoked anticipation for the forthcoming Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown by hailing leading man Timothée Chalamet as "a brilliant actor", and adding "I’m sure he’s going to be completely believable as me."

Set to screen in cinemas on Christmas Day, December 25, A Complete Unknown is rooted in the New York music scene of the early 1960s, and follows the young Bob Dylan, portrayed by Chalamet, on his meteoric rise to global fame, culminating in his legendary, controversial electric rock and roll performance at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965.