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Bob Dylan’s looking for a sketchy guy, a fat guy, a bartender, and a full-figured dancer

by Jay Gabler

January 09, 2015

Bob Dylan's new album Shadows in the Night is coming out on Feb. 3, and it looks like Dylan's getting ready to support the release with a new music video directed by Nash Edgerton—the Australian director who's been Dylan's preferred video director for the past several years. Billboard got a hold of the casting call for the video, and it looks like it's going to be...interesting.

Here are the actors Edgerton and Dylan are looking for:

[DANCER] Female, 40+, full figured. Burlesque dancer, will need to dance in audition. Think timeless a la Lana Turner or Ava Gardner.

[SKETCHY GUY] 50s, rough trade, pock marked face, etc.

[FAT GUY] 45+, all around huge.

[BARTENDER] Male, 30s+, looking for characters.

It's most likely this will be a video for the already-previewed "Full Moon and Empty Arms," but one could imagine these characters enacting a scenario to just about any Sinatra song—the new Dylan album will be all Sinatra covers—so the song being set to video is anyone's guess. One thing's for certain: those who like Dylan's trademark unusual, often seedy characters probably have an enjoyable four or five minutes of viewing ahead of them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAstfMjl408

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