A Complete Unknown, directed by James Mangold, recounts Bob Dylan’s rapid rise to fame in the early 1960s as a pioneering singer-songwriter who later went on to redefine American music and culture. Starring Timothée Chalamet as Dylan,

The A.V. Club can exclusively share a behind-the-scenes clip from A Complete Unknown‘s upcoming digital release, in which Mangold and newly-minted SAG Award winner Chalamet discuss the philosophy behind the latter’s Oscar-nominated performance.

Based on the nonfiction book “Dylan Goes Electric!” by Elijah Wald, “A Complete Unknown” charts Bob Dylan’s meteoric rise to fame, beginning in 1961 and culminating during the night that changed everything four years later: the 1965 Newport Folk Festival where Dylan went electric.