Explore Bob Dylan's Acting Career Before Timothée Chalamet’s Biopic

The Big Picture After 80 years, 40 studio records, and one Nobel Prize, it’s still hard to know who Bob Dylan really is. In a perpetual state of self-contradiction, Dylan offered a nod of recognition to his own complications with his Walt Whitman-referencing “I Contain Multitudes” back in 2020. It’s true: the man contains about a dozen different Dylans wrapped inside a single body.

Unless he makes an unexpected late-career pivot, he won't likely be making the lists of musicians turned into acclaimed actors, but he did take a stab at it in a way that only he could. Pat Garrett gives him a minor role which he plays well, and Masked and Anonymous finds him playing a bizarro version of himself which leaves little room for failure. In Hearts of Fire, Dylan plays Billy Parker, a rockstar turned recluse who takes an aspiring singer under his wing.

Alias, mostly put on the sidelines to watch the action unfold , is 100% Dylan. When asked questions, he gives elusive answers. "That's a good question," he retorts to the very reasonable, "who are you?" The role is ultimately too small to ever get a real grasp of how he'd fare working with a cast of talented actors and a high-caliber director, but there's an impressive sort of star-power that he brings to the role.

Alongside Dylan, the film circles around a cast of depressive sadsacks who spend most of their time spewing borderline nonsensical quips that vary from cynical to misanthropic. Uncle Sweetheart is the sleazy businessman who sets up the benefit concert in order to embezzle enough money to pay off some militaristic loan sharks. A bespectacled Mickey Rourke plays a cold-hearted politician with a seemingly ineffable influence on the decaying alternate America.

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