Timothée Chalamet's journey to getting into character as Bob Dylan, how did he prepare for "A Complete Unknown"?

Times of discover News: The actor recalled this week that an agent, Timothée Chalamet, told him he needed to be proud. Though awkward at the time, memories of this experience helped Chalamet prepare to play Bob Dylan in James Mangold's next release, A Complete Unknown.

"If I auditioned for The Maze Runner or Divergent, a lot of which was revealed as soon as I went in, I always got the same response, 'Oh, you have the perfect body. No,'" Chalamet told Zane Lowe in an interview published Tuesday. "I had an agent call me and say, 'You need to grow up,' basically, not in an aggressive way, but you know."

Despite not becoming the face of any dystopian teen dramas of the 2010s, Chalamet has had a nice career. Now, as he prepares for the release of A Complete Unknown next month, the actor says his experience isn't too different from Dylan's.

"I have life experience, I wouldn't say it's weird, but I can relate to some of these things that [Bob Dylan] went through," Chalamet said. "Bob wanted to be a rock 'n' roll star — Buddy Holly, Little Richard, Elvis Presley — it was like the Rice Krispies of pop music, rock and roll, it depends on your perspective, you know, the '50s. At the end of the decade, it was marketed to kids, so equally, I wanted to be a big movie actor."

Like the hugely popular folk musician, Chalamet says he eventually figured out he needed to build his career around what he personally loved. "I found my way to these personal things. Movies are too much," the Dune actor said. "[For Dylan] it's folk music. He can't have a rock 'n' roll band because they all hire other kids in Minnesota with more money.

So for me, it's a very personal style. It was essential". Find a movie – Call Me by Your Name or Good Boy or Bird Lady or Little Women, Miss Stevens, Hot Summer Nights they were low budget but great... I don't know what else it would be... The personal take on movies started in this theater space, that's where I found my rhythm, my confidence, my flow, whatever you want to call it."

Elsewhere in the interview, Chalamet said he worked with a harmonic coach for five years while directing the film. Later, "he followed Bob to Chicago and Madison, Wisconsin, as well as Minnesota, where Dylan was born." Despite the intensive training, Chalamet says the film is not about recreating the musician's life exactly as it was. "That's not certain," he said, "that's not the fact.