Timothée Chalamet transforms into music legend Bob Dylan while filming the star's biopic in New Jersey - after celebrating co-star Elle Fanning's 26th birthday on set

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Timothée Chalamet transformed into music legend Bob Dylan while filming the star's biopic in New Jersey - after helping co-star Elle Fanning celebrate her 26th birthday on set.

The Dune star, 28, will portray the Blown' In The Wind hitmaker, 82, in the upcoming biopic, A Complete Unknown. 

Timothée has been spotted filming as Bob in several locations in recent weeks, and was captured embodying the star in Paterson, New Jersey, on Tuesday.

He got into character sporting a pair of baggy blue jeans with a brown corduroy jacket, a red striped shirt and leather cowboy boots.

The Oscar nominee's dark hair was styled to be reminiscent of Bob's signature shaggy locks as he was seen filming a scene getting into a car surrounded by screaming fans. 

Timothée Chalamet transformed into music legend Bob Dylan while filming the star's biopic in New Jersey on Tuesday

The Dune star, 28, will portray the Blown' In The Wind hitmaker, 82, (pictured right in 1965) in the upcoming biopic, A Complete Unknown

Devotees of Bob crowded the car that the actor was getting into, seemingly excitedly hoping for an autograph.

Timothée is seen gripping his trusty guitar case - which has rarely left his side during filming - as he approached the car. 

Other snaps from filming showed Timothée [as Bob] looking forlorn once inside the car, as a fan held up a drawing they had done of him. 

Earlier in the day, Emmy-nominated actress Elle Fanning celebrated her 26th birthday filming as Sylvie Russo.

Sylvie is a thinly-veiled version of the late artist Suze Rotolo - who began dating the legendary 82-year-old in 1961 while they were teenagers and split in 1964 after their abortion and his affair with Joan Baez.

Suze - who died at age 67 in 2011 - inspired several of Bob's songs including Boots of Spanish Leather, Don't Think Twice, It's All Right; and Tomorrow Is a Long Time.

Rotolo inspired Dylan to paint, sing about the civil rights movement, and introduced him to the writings of French poet Arthur Rimbaud and German playwright Bertolt Brecht.

Timothée clearly found a way to amuse birthday girl Elle while between takes of the big-screen adaptation of Elijah Wald's 2015 book Dylan Goes Electric! while on the New York City set. 

Oscar-nominated costume designer Arianne Phillips dressed Elle in a maroon pea coat over a red-and-white striped turtleneck, black jeans, and matching ballet flats.

Timothée has been spotted filming as Bob in several locations in recent weeks, and was captured embodying the star in Paterson, New Jersey, on Tuesday

He got into character sporting a pair of baggy blue jeans with a brown corduroy jacket, a red striped shirt and leather cowboy boots

He was seen filming a scene getting into a car surrounded by screaming fans.

Bob - who Timothee is portraying in the biopic - is pictured in 1996

Other snaps from filming showed Timothée [as Bob] looking forlorn once inside the car

A fan then held up a drawing they had done of him

Elle covered her newly-cut blonde bob with a wig to more authentically portray the 'fair-skinned and golden-haired, full-blood Italian' who 'was the most erotic thing' Bob had ever seen.

Timothée - who was glued to his guitar case - was dressed in a light brown jacket over a blue-plaid shirt, retro blue jeans, and brown boots.

His costume was identical to Dylan's look on the cover of his iconic 1963 album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, in which he walked arm-in-arm with Suze.

Joining the talented twosome on set was director James Mangold, who said 'of course' Timothée is doing all of his own singing in the film, which began production on March 16.

'It's such an amazing time in American culture and the story of Bob's — a young 19-year-old Bob Dylan coming to New York with like two dollars in his pocket and becoming a worldwide sensation within three years,' the 60-year-old filmmaker told Collider a year ago.

'First being embraced into the family of folk music in New York and of course kind of outrunning him at a certain point his star rises beyond belief. 

'It's such an interesting true story and about such an interesting moment in the American scene. Different characters from Woody Guthrie to Bob Dylan to Pete Seeger to Joan Baez — they all have a role to play in this movie.'

Elle Fanning celebrated her 26th birthday on Tuesday while hard at work on the New York City set of Searchlight Pictures' Bob Dylan biopic

Chalamet's costume was identical to Dylan's look on the cover of his iconic 1963 album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, in which he walked arm-in-arm with Suze

The Emmy-nominated actress portrays Sylvie Russo - a thinly-veiled version of the late artist Suze Rotolo (L, pictured in 1961) - who began dating the legendary 82-year-old (R) in 1961 while they were teenagers and split in 1964 after their abortion and his affair with Joan Baez

The Great producer-star covered her newly-cut blonde bob with a wig to more authentically portray the 'fair-skinned and golden-haired, full-blood Italian' 

Rotolo inspired Dylan to paint, sing about the civil rights movement, and introduced him to the writings of French poet Arthur Rimbaud and German playwright Bertolt Brecht

Suze began dating the legendary 82-year-old in 1961 while they were teenagers and split in 1964 after their abortion and his affair with Joan Baez (Pictured are Bob and Joan in 1964)

Timothee - whose rap alter ego is Lil Timmy Tim - previously warmed his pipes in Paul King's 2023 musical prequel Wonka and Woody Allen's 2019 rom-com A Rainy Day in New York (which also starred Elle Fanning).

Edward Norton, Monica Barbaro, Boyd Holbrook, Nick Offerman, Dan Fogler, and Joe Tippett also star in A Complete Unknown (which references a lyric in the reclusive singer-songwriter's 1965 hit Like A Rolling Stone).

Two-time Oscar winner Cate Blanchett previously nailed young electric-era Bob Dylan aka Jude Quinn in Todd Haynes' critically-acclaimed 2007 experimental drama, I'm Not There.

However, A Complete Unknown will be executive produced by Bob himself.

Dylan (born Robert Zimmerman) will next bring his Rough and Rowdy Ways World Wide Tour to the Ameris Bank Amphitheatre in Alpharetta, GA on June 21.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer is truly a national treasure having received 10 Grammy Awards, an Academy Award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, a Pulitzer Prize special citation, and the Nobel Prize in literature.