It’s a beautiful, artfully made film. The political climate in the world and in the U.S. today has many similar reflections in the time period in which this film was shot, as far as the political climate and the LGBT community. When you were making this, how much relevance did that have on how you approached this film? Luca Guadagnino [director]: I think that
the inclination towards hatred, the inclination towards a sort of entitlement and the idea that you can mock people, the idea that there is no time for compassion is something that I feel around myself. I hope that Call Me By Your Name, even with this title, which is a stroke of genius from André Aciman, because it bids you to invite the other. It is a tiny attempt into indulging the opposite of what went before: Compassion in sharing, in mutuality, in fragility, that’s what I feel about it. Oliver was very elusive in the earlier parts of the film. It was a different time back then in the ‘80s when this was shot. Things like being gay were much less accepted at that point in time. Can you talk a little about what it was like trying to incorporate that reality into shooting this film? Armie Hammer [Oliver]: I agree with
you. I also think that, for me, that’s where Oliver’s “Later” comments kind of comes from. It’s not a sort of a confident “I’m done with this conversation, so I’ll see you later.” I think it’s much more to do with whatever is going on inside of him and whatever is going on there makes him really uncomfortable, I can’t acknowledge, I can’t deal. I gotta get out of here so I’m out... “Later.” Until it percolates and percolates and percolates inside him.
You might be able to bury something like that inside of you for a while, but you’re actually just burying a seed and it’s only going to grow and grow. There’s also a wonderful progression that happens in the film, watching two human beings become more and more enthralled with each other and then finally feeling comfortable enough to open themselves up completely and say, “This is exactly who I am.” Then having that received and reciprocated is such a wonderful thing that we all want and if we’re lucky enough, to have experienced and remember. I think that’s why this movie connects with so many people, because regardless of your orientation or identification, you’ve felt those feelings before. Being totally incapacitated by this feeling of want, of desire for another person and then having it come to fruition...and then maybe having it go away. Those are base human emotions and experiences everybody has dealt with and I think that’s why so many are connecting with the movie. Armie and Timothée, can you talk about the experience of getting to know your characters and what that was like? What have you taken away from knowing them? Timothée Chalamet[Elio]: There was a tremendous gift in working with the source material and the novel, particularly getting to play Elio versus Oliver, because it was very much a first-person narrative and is told so fiercely from Elio’s point of view. I’m not a purist myself in the sense that bleeding a part of me into the character appropriately and melding the parts of you that are temporary or make sense in the moment is okay.
armie hammer as oliver and timothée chalamet as elio photography by sayombhu mukdeeprom, courtesy of sony pictures classics
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