Timothée Chalamet is being tipped for an Oscar nomination for his performance as one of music’s most unconventional trailblazers, Bob Dylan.
It makes sense, then, that for A Complete Unknown’s London premiere, the Call Me By Your Name star would also take an out-of-the-box approach when it came to arriving on the red carpet.
Ahead of a screening on Tuesday night, Timothée was seen arriving on one of London’s iconic Lime bikes, which he parked right on the red carpet before posing for photographs.
And needless to say, the good people over at Lime were pretty excited to see one of Hollywood’s most recognisable faces atop one of their bikes…
Timothée takes the lead as Bob Dylan in the new biopic, sharing the screen with Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez and Elle Fanning as Sylvie Russo, a character inspired by another of the musician’s famous former girlfriends, Suze Rotolo.
A Complete Unknown has – perhaps surprisingly – received the seal of approval from Bob Dylan himself, who wrote on X last month: “There’s a movie about me opening soon called A Complete Unknown (what a title!).
“Timothée Chalamet is starring in the lead role. Timmy’s a brilliant actor so I’m sure he’s going to be completely believable as me. Or a younger me. Or some other me.”
He added: “The film’s taken from Elijah Wald’s Dylan Goes Electric – a book that came out in 2015. It’s a fantastic retelling of events from the early ’60s that led up to the fiasco at Newport. After you’ve seen the movie, read the book.”
The James Mangold film was nominated for three awards at the Golden Globes earlier this month, including a Best Actor In A Drama nod for Timothée and Best Supporting Actor recognition for Edward Norton, who plays Pete Seeger.
A Complete Unknown arrives in UK cinemas on Friday 17 January.