Timothée Chalamet to return to ‘SNL’ as host and musical guest

It marks his third appearance on the show

Timothée Chalamet will be returning to Saturday Night Live – as both a host and a musical guest.

• READ MORE: ‘A Complete Unknown’ review: don’t think twice about seeing this brilliant Bob Dylan biopic

The actor will make his third appearance on the show on January 25, which comes amid his promotional run for A Complete Unknown – the film that sees him take on the role of a young Bob Dylan.

Chalamet last hosted SNL in 2023, when he impersonated legendary director Martin Scorsese and was joined by boygenius in a sketch where all four were dressed up as Troye Sivan, parodying his ‘Got Me Started’ dance.

Sivan later reacted to the skit, describing it as “a weird fucking dream”. He added: “Like imagine… Timothée Chalamet was in my dream, but he was me, and he was wearing my clothes.”

Ahead of his starring role as Dylan, Chalamet learned to sing and play guitar and harmonica. He also previously sang in 2023’s Wonka, though it’s not yet clear what he will be performing on SNL.

A Complete Unknown charts Dylan’s controversial switch from acoustic to electric guitar in the mid-’60s. Dylan served as an executive producer on the film, which is an adaptation of Elijah Wald’s 2015 book Dylan Goes Electric! Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties.

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He also insisted on there being at least one totally inaccurate moment in the biopic.

It was released in US cinemas on Christmas Day (December 25), with a UK release to follow on January 17.

Reviewing the movie, NME awarded it four stars and said: “So many of the performances in A Complete Unknown fizz with this kind of tense, gripping energy – whether it’s because Dylan and Baez are bickering through ‘Blowin’ In The Wind’ or he’s managed to bottle the anxiety of an entire city awaiting nuclear armageddon in a Cold War protest song.”

It added: “The most important (and often trickiest) job of any music movie is to get the music right. And this nails that. If you’re a Bob newbie, you’ll leave the cinema ready to dive into his back catalogue.

“If you’re already a fan, the next few weeks will be spent making playlists of lesser-known B-sides or reading the lore around a scene you weren’t familiar with. And that’s why it was a good idea to make this film – a mad idea, but a good one.”