Martin Scorsese hasn’t spoken to Bob Dylan in 20 years (Picture: Getty Images / Redferns)

Martin Scorsese has confessed that he hasn’t spoken to Bob Dylan in more than 20 years despite making a series of movies on the singer.

Earlier this year, the infamous director put out Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story, which came after his 2005 documentary, No Direction Home: Bob Dylan.

But even though he has carefully crafted projects on the Like A Rolling Stone hitmaker, it seems the pair are not fully acquainted.

When chatting with the British Film Institute, the 77-year-old opened up on his relationship with the star and recalled the last time he met him.


The filmmaker said: ‘Last time I saw Dylan was at a big dinner for Armani, 20 years ago. I met him a few times with Robbie Robertson. That’s about it.’

He’s made a number of films on the singer (Picture: Netflix)

Martin recently dropped Rolling Thunder Revue on Netflix (Picture: Netflix)

But it seems his past movies have inspired Martin’s recent venture, The Irishman, which is currently available to stream on Netflix.



‘It did influence the structure of The Irishman,’ he affirmed: ‘Because once we had Rolling Thunder constructed, [editor] David Tedeschi and I looked at it, and I said, “It’s conventional.

‘”It’s just a film about a group of people who go on the road and they sing some songs. I’m going to have to start all over.”’

However, he decided to bring in actress Sharon Stone, who played the part of Dylan’s girlfriend as well as Martin von Haselberg who took on the part of documentarian Steven van Dorp.

He explained his idea of putting Sharon Stone in the movie (Picture: AFP / Getty Images)

He even added Michael Murphy into the mix as congressman Jack Tanner and Jim Gianopulos as a concert promoter.

‘Let’s say Sharon Stone represents certain things,’ Martin continued: ‘What about the businessman, the marketing man? And that’s [the head of Paramount] Jim Gianopulos.

‘So why don’t we not stop there? What about the filmmaker? Great. And he had to be taken advantage of. He possesses the performers, he wants to be them.

‘It’s like us, making this… we love the music and the performers so much that the only thing we can do is photograph them and edit it, right? And we wanna be them.

‘And no matter what, we’re left wanting more.’

Metro.co.uk have reached out to Bob Dylan’s reps for further comment.

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