‘A Complete Unknown’s Timothée Chalamet, Monica Barbaro on music, gender & protest
by Curated December 27, 2024 · Gay News / Gay Pride / Gay Rights / The Advocate
Author: Tracy E. Gilchrist
Music as activism and community building runs through the Timothée Chalamet starrer A Complete UnknownElle Fanning as Sylvie Russo and Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan in ‘A Complete Unknown.’Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan and Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez in ‘A Complete Unknown.’Searchlight Pictures
Community based around music is how Dylan and Fanning’s Russo meet — at an all-day hootenanny in a church. A young woman with modern ideas and an accomplished visual artist in her own right, Russo is influential in young Dylan’s life even if she sidelines her own accomplishments for a time.
“She is so politically active and very grounded and strong, and I wanted to make sure that her inner life because she’s this kind of pillar of strength for Bob. He keeps returning back to her. But just showing someone who’s in a relationship with someone who they’re not on the same page,” Fanning says. “He’s going off into the stratosphere and she is kind of not necessarily being left behind, but she’s wanting something from him that she knows she can’t have because, and she doesn’t necessarily. It’s like she wants it, but then she also knows that he’s a genius and this artist and she wants him to be able to go and soar.”
A Complete Unknown is in theaters.
Original Article on The Advocate
Author: Tracy E. Gilchrist
