It’s not easy being a supporting act. Operating down the bill, you’re giving it your all in full knowledge you’re not the main attraction. Play your cards right though, and you might just steal the show.
James Mangold’s Bob Dylan biopic “A Complete Unknown” may have its megawatt star in Timothée Chalamet, but his light isn’t so bright as to blind us from one of the year’s great supporting casts.
While paying reverence to Dylan’s alien talent, Mangold takes time to show us the musician didn’t enter into the folk scene fully-formed, nor did he operate in isolation, peppering the film with a murderers row of ’60s musical figures, from acclaimed session artists to Dylan’s pen-pal the Man in Black himself, Johnny Cash (a charming Boyd Holbrook).
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