an agreement of tenses issue

The original sentence is:

Ted said: "When I am a famous musician, people won't give a hoot about my knowledge of atoms and molecules."

I wonder which one is correct if we try to paraphrase the sentence above:

Ted said that when he was a famous musician, people wouldn't give a hoot...

or

Ted said that when he would be a famous musician, people wouldn't give a hoot...


Thank you very much.

When he was.

Thank you, Sir.

In addition to SoothingDave's answer you can also say '...when he became a famous musician....'

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Rover_KE said:

In addition to SoothingDave's answer you can also say '...when he became a famous musician....'

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"Becomes" I think. It's someone talking about his future plans.

I thought about using "becomes", but then wouldn't that be violating the laws of agreement of tenses?

Bennevis said:

I thought about using "becomes", but then wouldn't that be violating the laws of agreement of tenses?

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I'd use 'became'. If we are going to backshift one verb, won't, then it's better to backshift both.