Elle Fanning Missed Her Chance To Meet Bob Dylan | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

you know one of the things that. fascinates me about Bob Dylan and always. has is he was a shape shifter probably. still is a shape shifter and totally. made up left and right yeah so. there's this famous introduction a. couple of years before the incident. where he plugged in there's this famous. incident where where Bob Dylan's. introduced by Pete Seager at uh Folk. Festival and Pete Seager says you know. he tried to run away from home nine. different times but was caught and. returned and then finally he like jumped. a train and came here and camped out.

with hobos and here he is tonight and. everyone believed that it later turned. out to be his like parents were like. well good luck here's a here's some. money and don't forget to write here's a. cell phone here's a credit you know what. whatever he had made it up yeah he said. he worked or that he like worked at a. carnival and yeah part of the traveling. circus which I don't know if that's true. I don't but I guess I think it's part of. an American tradition where um William. faul.

completely made up his past Ernest. Hemingway made up stuff great artists. invent themselves I believe that and. they come up with all these stories and. I I think fauler had everyone convinced. that he had flown in the Royal Air Force. in World War I it's like nope completely. untrue you know he was like tending a. furnace you know some somewhere in like. Tennessee or something but that it's. part of the creative process in a weird. way sometimes you hear it and you think. oh yeah that's that's a sociopath but no.

that was his that was part of his. process was inventing himself yeah. definitely and I think even like through. his I mean obviously his songs and he's. like one of the greatest writers I think. um that we have I mean and and it is. interesting like thinking about he. didn't want to kind of deal with the. fuss of people judging him for his past. you know like he just was like this is. my work I want you to judge at face. value I thought it was hilarious when he.

won he won the Nobel Prize and I just. love that he was. annoyed I don't want to go where do I. have to go and get in you know just like. annoyed by it all which would not be. anyone else's reaction to winning the. nobell prize exactly didn't want the. fuss yeah I know I never I haven't met. him wait didn't I thought you did meet. Bob Dylan no I did not I was I was told. no Timothy hasn't met him either he was. involved in uh J Jame uh.

Jim has met him James mangled but we. have not met him I was told that I was. going to have a rehearsal with Jim and. Bob Dylan and I got this email and I was. like oh my God I was like this is. amazing like I have to pick out what I'm. going to wear I have like I what am I. going to say to him what am I going to. ask like so excited and I walk in the. next day and it's Jim and Timmy oh no. and I was like oh what.

I know who wants to meet Timothy sh I. know I was like what a waste of time I. thought it was Bob we were laughing. character the whole time or something no. I think it's just like sometimes they do. that on set he's just being Whimsical. yeah well there you know and and you. know an assistant had like written it. down Bob Dylan it was like both names. like Bob Dylan all caps bold in bold so. maybe I should have realized well I I've. met him briefly I've told I've told.

before but just because you're here and. it lines up perfectly I can do it really. quickly backstage at a concert with my. good friend and guitarist Jimmy Vino and. we're just going to go see Bob play I've. never met him never think I'm going to. meet him but we're just in this sort of. backstage area and then I'm pushed like. literally pushed into a room and there's. a bunch of people there and then. suddenly because of the way people are. moving in the room suddenly I'm sort of. spit out at the front of the room and. there is Bob Dylan staring at me and I'm. right in front of him and he's got the. little tiny pencil mustache that he had.

during that phase where he's wearing the. string ties and the little pencil must. and he looks at me and he goes hey I. know you from the TV whoa and then just. then I get interrupted by somebody who. pulls my focus who literally drags me. out of my one conversation I'm GNA have. with Bob Dylan and Bob Dylan Like. skitters away oh no and that person was. Al Gore and I've always been pissed at. Al Gore ever since because literally he.

went hey I know he said I know you from. the TV and I'm about to go like oh my. God Bob Dylan and I'm just about to. speak to him and he's looking at me when. I hear Conan Conan it's me Al Gore God. no global warming is a reality it's An. Inconvenient Truth the Earth is warming. by three degrees every know and and I. see Bob Dyan shrug and kind of walk away. did you know that and that was it but he. knows you he knows from the TV he didn't.

know my name it wasn't the TV it was the. TV Accent on the T I got to get to. Shalom and tell him that's how you. pronounce TV yeah yeah you should have. told him I I I saw him at a concert. right before um we went at the kings's. road theater in in New York um and I saw. him and I actually so sad I had eaten a. bad turkey sandwich and I was like in. the middle like the concert I'd never. seen Bob Dylan live before and I'm like. I knew I was doing the movie and Timothy.

was there and were there and I just was. like oh no I'm going to throw up and so. I had to leave like halfway through I. and actually I so I ran out of the. stadium and it's like a beautiful. theater like really kind of grand and. gold it's like it's really pretty run. out right next to the concession stand. like in the lobby and I I can't make to. the bathroom just puke turkey sandwich. all on the carpet oh my God and then I. know I was like oh gosh and I had I had.

to leave and I went to the bathroom and. then when I came back they had like a. sad little like conone over my throw up. you know like avoid this area I was like. no I have to get back to the concert oh. that's terrible I must see I know so. darn it was the turkey sandwich it was. not Bob that made turkey sand turkey. sandwich wow I think you met Timmy. shalam but you don't even know it I met. him right before he blew up had ice. cream with him what was that like was he. what was he like he was cool I mean he. was like a young kid I mean you know he.

he was T he he at that point had already. been in in was Interstellar the one with. Matthew mccon yeah he was in that movie. already but he had a small part in it. and you know I think everyone was like. you're going to you're going to do great. you'll be great called me by your name. came out yeah you sat him down I think. and said I you know look you should try. comedy because acting's not your thing. and and and you'll you know try comedy. and maybe you could be like half a Conan. O'Brien one day remember I did I did I.

was like I don't know comedy seems like. it would be a better fit for you than. drama and he's like I'm going to show. these two people yeah you made him make. him it's because of us your villain. origin story yeah do you know what he. has written on his hand conen is. wrong well I wrote that on my hand as. well seen it yours says is wrong. yeah I think we all do I think all five. of us I just had a tattooed.