While Bob Dylan is not heavily involved in the production of the biopic A complete strangerhe has some involvement in the realization process. Dylan didn’t meet the cast, but he spoke about the film with director James Mangold. Dylan gave his opinion on what he would like to see from the film. According to Elle Fanning, who plays his girlfriend in the film, Dylan added a line to a fight scene.

Bob Dylan added a line to a scene from “A Complete Unknown”

In A complete strangerFanning plays Sylvie Russo, a version of Dylan’s real girlfriend Suze Rotolo. The couple went out when first moved to New York. Although the arc faithfully follows Rotolo and Dylan’s relationship, his name is different in the film. According to Fanning, who plays Russo, Dylan wanted to rename the character.

“(Rotolo was) a very private person and did not ask for this life,” Fanning said. rolling stone. “She was obviously someone very special and sacred to Bob.”

The film depicts a fight between the couple and Dylan personally added a line to the scene.

“It was something like, ‘Don’t even bother coming back,’” Fanning said. “We know the arguments were real, so maybe he was remembering something – or regretting something he said to her.”

Suze Rotolo appeared on an album cover

Rotolo appeared on the cover of Dylan’s second album, Freewheeling Bob Dylan. One of the songs on the album, “Don’t Think Twice It’s Alright”, is about Rotolo. She remembers walking the streets to get vaccinated.

“Bob put his hands in the pockets of his jeans and leaned over me,” Rotolo wrote in his book. A Freewheelin’ Time: Memories of Greenwich Village in the 1960s (via rolling stone). “We walked down Jones Street facing West Fourth with Bleecker Street behind us. In some shots it’s obvious we were frozen; Bob certainly was, in that thin jacket. But the image was everything.

She said she was never paid to appear on the cover.

“As for me, I was never asked to sign a waiver or pay anything,” she said. “It never occurred to me to ask.”

Bob Dylan supports “A Complete Unknown”

James Mangold, director of A complete strangersaid Dylan was a great support of the project.

“The first time I sat down with him, Bob asked me, ‘What is this movie about, Jim?'” Mangold said in a separate interview with rolling stone. “I said, ‘It’s about a guy who suffocates to death in Minnesota, leaves all his friends and family behind and reinvents himself in a whole new place, makes new friends, starts a new family , enjoys phenomenal success, begins to choke.” death again – and flees.

Mangold said Dylan smiled before giving his approval.

“I like it,” he said.

A complete stranger will be released in theaters on December 25.