Joan Baez addresses inaccuracies in Bob Dylan biopic 'A Complete Unknown'

American singer-songwriter Joan Baez says scenes in Bob Dylan biopic played out differently than in real life.

Baez, who dated Dylan in the early '60s, broke her silence on the new 2024 biopic in a recent Rolling Stone interview published June 11.

“People in my camp, they’re outraged, and they’re fact-checking. And I said, ‘Don’t bother,’” she said. “It’s a fun movie.”

Baez then pointed out the inaccuracies, saying she only briefly lived in the Village with Dylan, they didn’t stay in the Chelsea Hotel — but then stopped. “But details, details, see what I mean?” she said.

“Someone said, ‘Did you really do that to Bob?’” she said, holding up a middle finger. “I said, ‘No, I did this.’” She held up a second.

“But I was pleased they were getting the feeling right. The music was brilliant. I thought Chalamet did a good job,” she said of the lead actor Timothée Chalamet who played Dylan. She admitted the actor seemed “a bit too squeaky clean.” She called that scruff part of Dylan’s “charm.”

However, she lauded the film and Chalamet for getting“a lot” of Dylan right, including his “bad attitude.”

Baez also told Rolling Stone that in real life, Dylan’s romantic relationship with Suze Rotolo “wasn’t happening in my face.”

Baez, 84, also revealed why she and Dylan, also 84, are still in touch all these decades later.

“If you look me up and Google me, there’s maybe one thing on me, and then it’s directly to ‘Joan Baez and Bob Dylan.’”

While Chalamet played Dylan, Monica Barbaro played Baez and Elle Fanning played Sylvie Russo—a fictional girlfriend of Dylan’s who was based on his real girlfriend, Suze Rotolo.