She's also the only character who was given a name different than her real-life counterpart , in this case Suze Rotolo, the artist, political activist, and eventual author who died in from lung cancer. They quickly fell in love and moved in together in Greenwich Village. Director James Mangold confirmed to Rolling Stone that Fanning's character Sylvie Russo is meant to closely resemble the real Rotolo, rather than be a "half-Suze, half-fictional" creation. And Suze was just a real person.
She's much more like someone we know. According to Fanning, Dylan asked Mangold not to use Rotolo's real name, because she was "a very private person and didn't ask for this life. The movie accurately depicts the couple's first meeting in at a Riverside Church hootenanny, per Rolling Stone.
At the time, Dylan was 20, while Rotolo was She was the most erotic thing I'd ever seen," Dylan wrote in his memoir, "Chronicles: Volume One. The air was suddenly filled with banana leaves," he continued. Cupid's arrow had whistled past my ears before, but this time it hit me in the heart and the weight of it dragged me overboard.
In Dylan's recollection, Rotolo was embedded in the New York art scene as a painter, illustrator, and graphic designer, in addition to her work with civil rights committees. She'd grown up in Queens, he said, and was raised in a "left-wing family. She was just my type. Not long after their first encounter, Dylan said he ran into Rotolo's sister, Carla, and asked if he could see Rotolo again.
Outside of my music, being with her seemed to be the main point in my life. By early , Dylan and Rotolo had moved in together, even though her family disapproved; Dylan described Rotolo's mother, Mary, as "very protective" and disapproving of Dylan's "nameless way of life.
