‘Bones and All’ Helmer Luca Guadagnino Slams the ‘Silliness’ of Armie Hammer Insinuations
01.10.2022 - 22:17
/ variety.com
Marta Balaga Luca Guadagnino couldn’t escape the Armie Hammer question at the Zurich Film Festival, where he was celebrated with the “A Tribute To…” award. “David Kajganich and Theresa Park, the writer and one of our producers, have been working on ‘Bones and All’ since the book was released. Many years ago, probably around the time when we were shooting ‘Call Me by Your Name’,” he said during his masterclass when asked about the recent “cannibal” scandal. “It was to be directed by my great colleague Antonio Campos, but he decided not to go for it. That’s when they gave me the script. Any correlation with this kind of innuendo and silliness is preposterous.”
Guadagnino’s Zurich trophy is just the latest in a slew of awards for the helmer, recently feted in Venice and in Göteborg earlier this year.
“After I turned 50, I started to accept honorary awards. They offered me some before, but I thought it was strange, being honored for something you are still doing,” he said. “I am practical. I like awards, because it’s a recognition and everyone wants to be recognized. I don’t look at them, though. They are all in my closet.” The Italian director opened up about his childhood spent in Ethiopia and then Sicily, crediting the first with his “sense of space and light.” But it took him a while to reconcile with the latter. “When I left, I must have been 22. I felt I was stuck there. I never had an accent, so I was treated in a suspicious way even back then. Now, I feel very connected to it.” Still, he keeps on moving, with the Timothée Chalamet starrer marking his first shoot in the U.S. “The idea the U.S. wants to give to the world has a lot to do with the imagery they create about themselves. We have been sold this imagery
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