The world wants a brand new Bob Dylan for an age that has grow to be too “cynical”, actor Timothee Chalamet mentioned on Thursday whereas presenting the brand new biographical movie on the U.S. people troubadour.
Asked forward of the inauguration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump if he had embraced Sixties nostalgia in starring because the singer in “A Complete Unknown”, the French-American celebrity famous the divergence together with his personal technology.
“I think there is a nostalgia, because in the 1960s, this type of music and artists, like Bob Dylan, Joan Baez or James Baldwin — there was no precedent,” Chalamet mentioned in French forward of the France premiere of the movie on January 29.
Such artists thought “that things could change and that art could change political aspects or the cultural attitude”, he mentioned.
“Today, the cynicism is stronger,” he mentioned. “For the young American, French and global generation, the obstacles are probably even bigger than in the 1960s: the environmental and political obstacles.”
“It would be good if someone like Dylan emerged but, there again, there’s this cynicism… If someone makes an ethical, optimistic song, you’d think it had some ‘corporate’ element, that it was done in their own interests.”
The Dylan biopic will likely be competing at Britain’s BAFTA awards subsequent month because the race for Oscars glory gathers tempo, as will “Dune: Part Two”, the science fiction extravaganza by which Chalamet additionally stars.
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