Luca Guadagnino says it 'didn't dawn' on him that people would associate his cannibal movie with Armie Hammer
msn.comLuca Guadagnino says his new movie has nothing to do with Armie Hammer. The 51-year-old director has reunited with Timothée Chalamet, 26, for new cannibal movie 'Bones and All' and he says it "didn't dawn" on him that people would associate the movie with Timothée's 'Call Me By Your Name' co-star Armie Hammer, who has been accused of expressing cannibalistic sexual fantasies.
He told Deadline: "It didn’t dawn on me. I realised this afterward when I started to be told of some of these innuendos on social media. "This project—which was a popular book—had been in development for a number of years before Dave Kajganich brought it to me in 2020.
I responded immediately to these characters who are disenfranchised and living on the edge of society. Any link with anything else exists only in the realm of social media, with which I do not engage.
The relationship between this kind of digital muckraking and our wish to make this movie is non-existent and it should be met with a shrug.
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