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Hi, This is James Mangold. I\u2019m the co-writer, director, and one of the producers of \u201cA Complete Unknown.\u201d \u201cMr. Pete Seeger.\u201d This is Gerde\u2019s Folk City, an early scene in the film. Joan Baez has just done a show-stopping tune, and Pete Seeger comes onstage, played by the brilliant Edward Norton, and introduces his prot\u00e9g\u00e9, a very young 19-year-old Bob Dylan, who we\u2019ve only heard sing one other time in the film so far, and is coming onstage for his debut. Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet, of course, plays Bob Dylan, and will be playing live in this scene, as he does throughout. We also introduce Dan Fogler playing Albert Grossman in the audience. He will become a sideman and forever presence in this period of Bob\u2019s life. All right. Thanks, folks. Yeah Thanks, Pete. That\u2019s a … Boy, that\u2019s a lot to live up to. Monica Barbaro is Joan Baez, a kind of very fierce presence in the folk scene and a huge star at that moment in folk music. \u201cHow about that Joan Baez, folks? It\u2019s pretty good. And she\u2019s pretty. Sings pretty. Maybe a little too pretty.\u201d I love this moment of Timothy kind of portraying Bob\u2019s slightly foot-in-mouth, inappropriate, provocative nature. \u201cI was young when I left home. I\u2019d been out ramblin\u2019 round. And I never wrote a letter to my home. To my home.\u201d This is an early song of Dylan\u2019s called \u201cI Was Young When I Left Home\u201d that I felt was apropos, mainly because it\u2019s so profoundly autobiographical in the sense that Dylan was young when he left home and restarted his life in New York. \u201cI was bringing home my pay. And I met an old friend I used to know … \u201d It\u2019s interesting telling the story of this period. I felt that much of Dylan\u2019s filmography, although it\u2019s mostly documentary, is very handheld, very kind of vibrant, with electric in the sense of chasing the actors around in a documentary style. I felt that Bob\u2019s style itself was so profound that I wanted to lay back and just observe and allow the power of the music, which we perform throughout the movie live. Let that music communicate. \u201cIt\u2019s very good, isn\u2019t it?\u201d \u201cYeah.\u201d \u201cHe\u2019s my client.\u201d Folk music is, of course, at its core, simple, unadorned, a human voice and a guitar. And for that reason, I felt that we really couldn\u2019t risk producing these pieces with too much technological intervention. I wanted to just let the actors move from speaking to singing and back to speaking again in a way that feels utterly natural and like you\u2019re there.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n