While honoring director Luca Guadagnino at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, Dakota Johnson made a joke about his Call Me By Your Name collaborator Armie Hammer.The Lost Daughter star, 33, presented Guadagnino, 51, with the international icon award at the “Taste of Sundance” dinner on Thursday, January 19.
While marveling over his lengthy career, Johnson noted that she almost played the role of the peach in 2017’s Call Me By Your Name.“It was here at Sundance in 2017 that audiences experienced a film that is uniquely characterized by Luca’s iconic approach to storytelling,” the 50 Shades of Grey actress said on Thursday, per Variety. “The vision and the style that is Call Me By Your Name.
Sadly, I wasn’t in that one.”She continued: “It was unfortunate. Luca had asked me to play the role of the peach, but our schedules conflicted.
Thank God though, because then I would have been another woman that Armie Hammer tried to eat.”Call Me By Your Name — which starred Timothée Chalamet and Hammer, 36 — featured a notable scene in which Hammer’s Oliver discovers Chalamet’s Elio performing a sexual act on a peach.The Social Network actor was later accused in January 2021 of sending explicit messages to multiple women about his NSFW sexual fantasies, including rape, mutilation and cannibalism.
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