Shia LeBeouf was fired as Timotheé Chalamet’s ‘Call Me’ lover
very different if Shia LaBeouf was cast in the lead.The former Disney Channel star, 35, was in the running to play Hammer’s character Oliver, who was the older boyfriend of Chalamet’s Elio.The 2017 film’s Oscar-winning writer and producer James Ivory explained in his new memoir, “Solid Ivory,” that LaBeouf was first contacted to play the role.In passages published in GQ on Wednesday, Ivory wrote that he was uncertain about LaBeouf’s casting due to the fact that he couldn’t visualize the “Fury” actor playing “an academic writing about the Greek philosopher Heraclitus.”“Shia came to read for us in New York with Timothée Chalamet, paying for his own plane ticket, and [director Luca Guadagnino] and I had been blown away,” Ivory said.