Timothée Chalamet (left) plays Elio, who has a crush on Oliver, played by Armie Hammer (right).
I know I wasn’t the only one who thought Anne Helen Petersen’s Buzzfeed article “Ten Long Years of Trying to Make Armie Hammer Happen” seemed a little extra nasty, if not entirely inaccurate.
The piece argued that the only reason Armie Hammer still has a high-profile career is that he’s exactly the sort of rich, bland, white, patrician man the Hollywood machine is built to cosset, at the expense of less-privileged actors who don’t get to make high-profile super-bombs (like The Lone Ranger and The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) and keep working.
I had no opinion about Hammer going into the screening of Call Me by Your Name, a new film by Luca Guadagnino, whose past work (A Bigger Splash, I Am Love) I really admire.
