Timothée Chalamet swung by the Miss America Diner in Jersey City recently as part of filming for the Bob Dylan movie “A Complete Unknown.”
The diner, which with its prominent red neon sign stands as a longtime landmark at the corner of West Side and Culver avenues, is among many New Jersey locations to be visited by Chalamet and director James Mangold this spring.
As NJ Advance Media previously reported, the movie, which just started production in Jersey, was slated to film here through May — offering plenty of opportunities for “Chalamaniacs” to try and spot the actor.
But now they’ll have even more time.
Searchlight Pictures says “A Complete Unknown” will be in town through June.
Chalamet, 28, who plays a young Bob Dylan in the movie, filmed in New York before the production came to Jersey.
Staff at the Miss America Diner said the restaurant would be closed March 22, 25 and 26, when Chalamet-watchers shared video of the actor there during a night shoot.
Mangold’s film, which he co-wrote with Jay Cocks (”Gangs of New York”), focuses on Dylan during the ’60s, when the teen famously traveled from Minnesota to New York and visited his hero Woody Guthrie at Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital in Morris County.
Chalamet, who is also a producer of the movie, has been photographed filming in downtown Manhattan and outside the Chelsea Hotel where Dylan stayed.
Mangold, director of the Oscar-winning film “Ford v Ferrari” (2019), recently posted a photo showing the “Dune: Part Two” star in full Dylan mode outside the hotel.
Earlier this month, Steven Gorelick, director of the New Jersey Motion Picture and Television Commission, told us that plans were underway for the movie to film in Hudson, Passaic, Essex and Cape May counties.
“Among the things they’re doing is they’re duplicating Woodstock in New Jersey,” he said. “So they’ll be up in the northwest (of New Jersey), I’m sure, too. They’re still scouting locations but that’s one of our biggest projects on the horizon. We’re really excited about that one.”
Dylan lived in Woodstock, New York in the ‘60s.
The movie’s title, “A Complete Unknown,” comes from Dylan’s 1965 song “Like a Rolling Stone” (“How does it feel, how does it feel/To be without a home, like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone?”).
Besides Chalamet, the movie stars Oscar nominee Edward Norton as folk singer Pete Seeger; Monica Barbaro (”Top Gun: Maverick”) as fellow folk icon Joan Baez, who had a relationship with Dylan; and Elle Fanning, reportedly as a Dylan love interest based on his relationship with artist Suze Rotolo.
Jersey actors in the film include Charlie Tahan (”Ozark”), who grew up in Glen Rock, and P.J. Byrne (”Babylon”), who hails from Old Tappan.
Other cast members are Boyd Holbrook (”Logan”), Scoot McNairy (”12 Years a Slave”) and Dan Fogler (the “Fantastic Beasts” movies).
Also in the movie: Will Harrison (”Daisy Jones & the Six”), Eli Brown (”Pretty Little Liars”) and blues singer Big Bill Morganfield, who is the son of blues legend Muddy Waters.
The full ensemble includes Nick Pupo (”Halt and Catch Fire”), James Austin Johnson (”Saturday Night Live”), Laura Kariuki (”The Wonder Years”), Joe Tippett (”Monarch”), Eric Berryman (”Atlanta”) and David Alan Basche (”Egg”).
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