Timothée Chalamet took an unconventional approach to the game Bob Dylan.

PEOPLE has an exclusive clip of the actor, 28, speaking to Apple Music’s Zane Lowe about how his vocal and physical transformation into the “End of the Line” singer for the upcoming biopic A complete stranger differed from other actors like Austin Butler And Natalie Portman.

“Someone once told me: you can’t make a film about a painter because it’s not interesting to watch paint dry,” Chalamet explains at the top of the video. “Bob has that element because he’s not one of those avant-garde musicians.”

He went on to say that, for his portrayal of the famous musician, it didn’t make sense for him to imitate his every move with planned choreography.

Speaking about Portman’s Oscar-nominated portrayal of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in the 2016 historical drama JackieChalamet says: “Natalie Portman does a sequence in (Jackie), that’s exactly what Jackie did, step by step. That was sort of my aspiration – my layman’s aspiration for Bob. »

But through trial and error, the Dune The star decided that taking this approach wouldn’t work.

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He remembers seeing a vocal coach and working with a dialect and movement team, saying it was “all that stuff I saw my good friend Austin Butler crush it with.” Elvis.” However, he finally realized, “Wait, I shouldn’t do any of this because it’s not my style.”

More importantly, it wasn’t Dylan’s style either.

“Bob didn’t have a vocal coach,” says Chalamet. “He had two bottles of red wine and four packs of cigarettes. There’s no way he could pass that off.”

The upcoming biopic follows Dylan’s arrival in New York at the age of 19 in the early 1960s. “As he forms his most intimate relationships during his rise to fame, he worries of the folk movement and, refusing to be defined, makes a controversial choice that reverberates culturally around the world,” teases the official synopsis.

The film also stars Edward Norton as musician Pete Seeger, as well as Boyd Holbrook, Dan Fowler, Norbert Leo Butz and Scoot McNairy. The film is directed by Follow the line filmmaker James Mangold, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jay Cocks.

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PEOPLE released an exclusive behind-the-scenes video de Chalamet speaking about the authenticity of his portrait of the legendary musician in October.

“It was important for me to act and sing on set because it was in the spirit of the film to do it live,” Chalamet said in the video amid clips of him performing the hit songs from Dylan’s “The Times They Are a Changin'” and “Like a Rolling Stone.”

A complete stranger is in theaters December 25. The first part of the interview with Timothée Chalamet on The Zane Lowe Show will be available on Monday, November 11 on Apple Music 1the second part being released in December.