The ‘A Complete Unknown’ Cast's Shocking First Reactions to Seeing Themselves as Their Characters

[@ecwhittemore]

BRAVO, Natasha Martinez! You asked the best set of interview questions I've ever heard and, as a result, got brilliantly penetrating insights from all the actors & James Mangold. Thank you for being so good at your job! And thanks to all those interviewed for their insights and their magnificent ensemble movie!

[@grinsley]

Completely agree!

[@NatashaMartinezAlexis]

Thank you so much! I loved interviewing this cast!

[@NatashaMartinezAlexis]

@@grinsleythank you 🙏🏽

[@lauren_WI]

🙌 yes! 🙌 agreed! Great questions and interview! Brilliant 👏 👏

[@NatashaMartinezAlexis]

@@lauren_WIthank you!!

[@zyanyarojas8853]

I watched a complete unknown in theatres with my husband on Christmas Day and it was amazing! I cried and laughed many times, they did a phenomenal job, Timothee was brilliant as Bob Dylan and overall Elle Fanning was wonderful too, all the actors truly embodied their roles.

[@sabrinawardharrison8904]

I did too! absolutely phenomenal

[@wildmountainthyme4123]

I'll be bringing plenty of tissues when I go see the movie!

[@anitapaul7267]

An astonishing movie! Timothy is a force to watch. Never knew Bob's music or story. Now I'm a fan. Riveting movie!!

[@Mdb0514]

This movie was soooooo good. I actually cried.

[@lemurianchick]

Were you a Dylan fan before?

[@Mdb0514]

@ yes. He’s my favorite lyricist of all time.

[@tp6945]

i didn’t cry but i did tear up the movie really makes you appreciate music

[@jeremycraft2445]

I cried through about 80% of the movie! And I'm man enough to admit it! :)

[@LucyLennon909]

I saw "A Complete Unknown" today. Loved every minute. I cried ... I laughed ... and I'm hoping for Part 2.

[@wanda520]

It was great

[@baileyryan96]

I want a part 2. If this is the only one, I'll be disappointed because it only focused on the first five years of his career. Anything past 1965 in Bob Dylan's life was not shown.

[@LilDew]

Setting yourselves up for disappointment tbh

[@LucyLennon909]

@baileyryan96 why wouldn't there be 'part 2'. Alot happened after these first 5 yrs.

[@phyllisdstein]

I just came back from seeing this film. I loved it!

[@user-xh1kz7rm4j]

Pete Seager was an amazing human.

[@andrewlewis955]

Ed Pinned Pete perfectly..I knew Pete and Ed Had him dead to rights!

[@richardlang63]

This was the great set of interviews I was not expecting. Great questions and right amount of (genuine) enthusiasm. I loved the movie. And I loved the interviews.

[@MarciaMatthews]

It makes sense that Timothee had the script and studied for five years. Dylan’s lyrics won a Pulitzer prize for poetry.

[@leemdynamo]

Edward Norton is right on. There is a lot to learn about Woody & Pete. Also, Baez has a powerful connection to the folk tradition. She admired Pete Seeger growing up.

[@woenderer]

I was stunned by the greatness of this movie and all the performances. When 'Bob' sang the song for Woody I burst into tears. Everything felt so real and meaningful.

[@prajnachan333]

Bob Dylan said once, "I don't know how I wrote those songs." "What do you mean you don't know?" (in amazement) He was a product of the time and of the Village in New York. We have our talents, but they are very much dependent on circumstances. Things going on in the world. The people we are associated with and supported by. Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie might have had something to do with it! Plus the spiritual and emotional and artistic awakening that was happening. No wonder he doesn't know. It's like a whirlwind swept him up and then set him down. "What just happened?" 🎉 🎸

[@sarahyoung583]

Oh, yeah, Natasha Martinez absolutely slayed in this. She established rapport and trust with every single one of them, and asked terrific thoughtful questions.

[@prajnachan333]

Monica Barbaro - I have to say, you definitely have a fan here. You are beautiful and your voice is really beautiful as well. The tone of your voice and your phrasing are wonderful. I would love to hear a record of your singing. But for now, the soundtrack captured some magical moments between you and Bob... I mean Timothy. 🙏

[@LilDew]

I hope the Blu Ray or digital version has a commentary track. Loved the movie

[@MarciaMatthews]

Great interviews! Can’t wait to see the film.

[@LilDew]

It's a great one

[@LilDew]

Saw it twice. Def wanna experience this one in cinemas 🔊🔊🔊

[@jeremycraft2445]

@@LilDew I also saw it twice... I'm hoping to get another viewing in... just need someone else to take (I already got most everyone I knew to go in the first 2 trips!)

[@ceciliaohman185]

Definitely reminded me of Amadeus. I loved that movie and this one.

[@sheri_LA_native]

This film is fantastic! I can't wait to see it again!

[@sheilaberrigan9736]

Excellent! always scary when you know these great artistic treasures will be portrayed by young people who didn't know them. Well done

[@prajnachan333]

Great job interviewing Natasha. It all flowed and was very natural and organic. Just like the film. Wait a minute...are you part of the film, morphing into the present. A continuum of life and story's and...I'm sorry, I'm trippin'. You really affected me with your guests. 🎉

[@NatashaMartinezAlexis]

Thank you!!

[@Msfifisquarepantz]

@@prajnachan333 Natural IS organic.

[@edspengeman3407]

GREAT MOVIE. GREAT JOB.

[@baileyryan96]

6:38 i was even thinking Bob Ross just on the soft tone of his voice in the movie.

[@TroyLeonardO]

Why does fandango have a drone frequency playing throughout this whole video? If you don't believe me listen to it on a bigger set of speakers instead of just your phone. Mmkkk

[@LarryNeie-lj7zc]

Saw the movie today. I'm 73 and ready to see it again tomorrow. Then a new movie from 1966 to '72..

[@ZeroHootsGiveth]

I'm actually heading to go see the film right now. 🎉

[@jeremycraft2445]

So What was your opinion?

[@lemurianchick]

Timothee is bringing back preppy polo rugby shirts?!

[@celene16cr]

Great film!

[@slimzimm1031]

That shirt with that stache

[@chesslerbooks]

Bob, Joan and all the rest were making that wonderful music that helped turn this country around culturally and politically, and made us more receptive to the Rock n Roll that was careening down the highway right behind the folkies, sometimes out of control. Nobody knew where that music was taking us. In 1960 I was still in high school in Brooklyn. All of a sudden some kids were running around getting everybody organized to go in a few days to hear Joan at Carnegie Hall. I never heard of her, and asked what kind of music did she make? Folk music. I was too embarrased to say I didn't know what folk music was. Maybe Burl Ives. Like everybody else eventually I preferred to hear Bob's songs from Peter, Paul and Mary. Pete wasn't the only one who played music with making money not high on his list. The only person in that crowd who did make some real money, and not from singing, just from royalties, was Bob. It took sixty five years, and now Taylor Swift has changed it all for the better.

[@StephenRosenberg-ed5jb]

the comments are great right on

[@williamwoolcock]

Loved the movie! One thing that threw me is that Chalamett is a better singer, would like to see him play more electric songs. Just have a KZbin of him doing "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowland".

[@avalondreaming1433]

Elle appears to have a little crush...

[@LisaSmith-yb2uz]

OR… 🤔 is she a better actress than you thought she was ? 😋😉☺️

[@HanaTihnan]

Amazing ❤️ 💯

[@TStephens-w7j]

Absolutely spectacular interviews...............however, maybe it's just me, I would have wanted to be alone in a room with Boyd Holbrook..........be still, my heart.

[@manikarnika7750]

I have watched a number of these interviews. All interesting. But the elephant in the room .....neither Dylan and Joan Baez have never spoken, certainly not on film, with any of these people. Maybe they feel that it is a good idea alway to stay away from all this "star making machinery" for now while the film is making money. But for posterity it might be good to have someone to get their take on the movie if they still even care at all. The movie will stand...right or wrong...as a record of who they were more powerfully than a well researched book. And, I hate to say this, even more powerfully than their actual recordings.

[@jeremycraft2445]

Actually, James Mangold and Bob Dylan sat down together and did a read-through of the entire script, with Dylan reading all Chalamet's lines and Mangold reading everything (including stage direction) else. He then signed off on the script (literally)!

[@marilyn48ful]

Just watched the movie, hoping to love it, like I loved Freddie Mercury movie, but wasn’t impressed the same way.

[@mayamenon1616]

This movie is far better than Bohemian Rhapsody.... Even though I love both the artists....

[@mayamenon1616]

Also the actors actually sang live all their songs in this film ...unlike Bohemian Rhapsody!

[@jsigur157]

They are really hyping this film. three months ago, Dylan was all but forgotten but by some nostalgic hippies. Ironic that Dylan was fighting against the culture of fake so hard that they are using the culture of fake to promote him so for hits extra bucks.

[@garad123456]

He wasnt forgotten, he put out an album just a few years ago and still tours

[@EdKazO-Vision]

This is an excellent beautiful film. I’m glad it’s being “hyped” in your words. Dylan was never “all but forgotten.” And if he was, don’t you think it’s a thing of value to share with new generations?

[@RonMcCullough-h1l]

Forgotten? He's just completed a three year world tour.

[@abcxyz2927]

He has 1.43m subs with over 50 million views on many videos You..a nobody!

[@Overzealous1]

I would agree that certain eras of his huge catalog are probably unknown by the general public (especially late 70s-early 90s work) but that is true for many legacy artists. Like, Bowie remains huge, but a majority of casual fans know little or nothing he recorded after 1990. However, didn’t Dylan’s last studio album Rough and rowdy ways (2020) go to number one? I believe he was the oldest artist with a number 1… Sold well physically… His mid 2000s album Modern Times also went to number 1. His cultural importance is not on the forefront of teenager’s minds but we are talking about events from 60 years ago. Happy he’s getting the respect, if nothing else…

[@Msfifisquarepantz]

From this actress speaking about this movie makes me assured I will never see it- very very perky. Not Suze. Not Bob. I know

[@robertewalt7789]

Yes, but a great movie nevertheless.

[@yeahiagree1070]

It’s called acting.

[@Msfifisquarepantz]

@ Is that what you call it? I call it horrible casting.

[@yeahiagree1070]

@@Msfifisquarepantz Oh you’re still confused.. Let me explain - ACTING is “the performing art in which movement, gesture, and intonation are used to realize a character for the stage, for motion pictures, or for television.” You see it doesn’t actually matter if an ACTOR is exactly the same as a character they play.. because in the film they ACT as a different person. That’s the whole point. And the fact your never going to watch the film makes any opinion you have absolutely irrelevant on every level. Understand now? Glad I could help.

[@Msfifisquarepantz]

@ Perhaps as a 50 year professional in the business of show and one who knew/know many of those NOT acting gives my opinion more credibility than you might ever have. Burma Shave.