Real story of twerp Bob Dylans romance with Sylvie what you dont see in A Complete Unknown

In the hit Bob Dylan biopic “A Complete Unknown,” in which Golden Globes-nominated Timothée Chalamet plays a spot-on Dylan, Hollywood liberties are taken.He didn’t first meet his hero Woody Guthrie, for the first time, at a New Jersey hospital and sing “Song to Woody” for him in the room.

He didn’t fall into bed with Joan Baez on the night of the Cuban Missile Crisis.But the people in the movie are mostly real: Baez, manager Albert Grossman, Dylan’s mentor Pete Seeger.And then there’s Sylvie Russo, played by Elle Fanning, who is in at least half the scenes — serving as girlfriend, muse and even a teacher introducing him to New York City.In actuality, she was Suze Rotolo, the teenage Queens girl who is forever famously seen walking with Dylan on the cover of the album “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan.” So why, when she was so prominent in his life and in the movie — which stretches from Dylan’s 1961 arrival in New York to him controversially going electric in ’65 — is Rotolo erased?Fanning told Rolling Stone that the name change was made at the request of Dylan himself, because Rotolo, who died in 2011, “[was a] very private person and didn’t ask for this life.”Yet, at least in later years, Rotolo was not quiet about her role in his story.

In 2010, she spoke to The Post about, among other things, shooting the album cover, saying, “He wanted the look to be a certain way.With Bob … image was all.”A former confidante of Dylan’s told The Post that the singer might have retained some guilt about their relationship.

“Bob might have felt bad about the way he treated Suze,” the confidante said.“I got the sense that he was very protective of her.”Maybe in some ways.

In others, not so much.“Suze never wanted to be the woman behind the man; with Bob there was a great deal of being that,” Terri Thal, author of “My Greenwich Village” and a longtime friend of Rotolo told The Post.

“For example, if somebody came up...