Bob Dylan keeps his clothes tight.
Costume designer Arianne Phillips told PEOPLE at Variety’s Hamilton Behind the Camera Awards on Nov. 11 at the Hollywood Athletic Club in California that she couldn’t get hold of the famous musician’s actual clothes while dressing Timothée Chalamet for the upcoming biopic. Complete unknown.
Asked if she had gotten her hands on authentic Dylan clothing, Phillips, 61, replied, “No, I haven’t.”
She still says she tried “several times” but had no luck.
Arianne Phillips at the 92nd Annual Academy Awards on February 9, 2020. David Fisher/Shutterstock
The designer, who also worked with director James Mangold on his Johnny Cash biopic Walk the linehe says the experience is not unique. “On Walk the lineI didn’t even have access to Johnny Cash or June Carter costumes,” she shares.
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Phillips faced similar challenges while working on Madonna’s historical romantic drama MEwhich mostly takes place in the 1930s and follows several real-life personalities as well as Quentin Tarantino Once upon a time in Hollywood about two actors in Hollywood in the late 1960s, but ultimately had more access to resources for both.
“But in this case, no, I failed,” Phillips continues. “I don’t mean Bob [Dylan] wanted to give up his clothes. They are hanging in his closet.”
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Speaking about working with Chalamet on his transformation into Dylan, she says he “was so generous with his time and would come in for auditions before or after recording music or a vocal lesson or a guitar lesson.”
The costume designer — who also recently worked on Joker: Folie à Deux — adds that the actor acquired numerous skills for the role, such as learning to play the guitar and harmonica.
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Timothée Chalamet on the set of ‘A Complete Unknown’.
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“He’s very focused, very generous with his time and really is a dream collaborator,” says Phillips. “He had almost 70 costume changes in this film, which requires a lot of time to adjust. I can’t imagine anyone else playing this role.”
Phillips thinks it is Dune the star’s role in the film and “homage” to the “Blowin’ in the Wind” singer “will inspire a lot of young people who may not know who Bob Dylan is.”
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The biopic follows Dylan’s arrival in New York at the age of 19 in the early 1960s.
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The synopsis states: “As he forges his most intimate relationships during his rise to fame, he becomes uneasy with the grassroots movement and, refusing to be defined, makes a controversial choice that resonates culturally around the world.”
The film was directed by Mangold, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jay Cocks, and also stars Edward Norton, Boyd Holbrook, Dan Fowler, Norbert Leo Butz and Scoot McNairy.
Complete unknown it’s in theaters on December 25.
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