Off-kilter chocolatiers, desert messiahs, civil war-era heartthrobs, lone-wolf cannibals. Thus far, Timothée Chalamet’s career has been defined by being cast in thrilling roles by thrilling directors. His latest challenge is no different: playing Bob Dylan in the James Mangold-directed A Complete Unknown.

Your honor, may Timothée Chalamet approach the bench. Chalamet is guilty as charged, having committed one of the worst crimes an actor can do before starring in a biopic: He watched five minutes of Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. The results are unsurprising. The film scared the hell out of him.

Timothée Chalamet is playing Bob Dylan in the new biopic A Complete Unknown, set for release on Christmas day. We’ve seen a couple trailers for the film so far, and now Chalamet has given his first in-depth interview about the role to Zane Lowe at Apple Music.

"Bob did not have a vocal coach," the actor said on 'The Zane Lowe Show' Timothée Chalamet took an unconventional approach to playing Bob Dylan. PEOPLE has an exclusive clip of the actor, 28, talking to Apple Music’s Zane Lowe about how his vocal and physical transformation into the "End of the Line" singer for the upcoming biopic A Complete Unknown differed from other actors like Austin Butler and Natalie Portman.

Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures Timothée Chalamet is opening up about his experience playing Bob Dylan in the upcoming movie A Complete Unknown. In an interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, Chalamet

"It was important for me to play and sing on set because it was in the spirit of the movie to do it live," Chalamet said in the video among clips of him performing Dylan's hit son

Timothée Chalamet is taking a bold and unconventional approach to portraying Bob Dylan in the upcoming biopic A Complete Unknown.