John C. Reilly could make A Complete Unknown but Timothée Chalamet couldn’t make Walk Hard.
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Back in 2007, Jake Kasdan and Judd Apatow made Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story as a send-up of musician biopics, taking some pretty direct jabs at James Mangold’s then-recent Johnny Cash film, Walk the Line. So call it fate, or maybe justice, that nearly 20 years later, Walk Hard is sowing doubt in the star of Mangold’s upcoming Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown. “I made the mistake of watching five minutes of that movie before I started this and went, Oh my God, I’ll never be able to do this,” Timothée Chalamet told Zane Lowe on…
