Shia LaBeouf was nearly cast as Timothée Chalamet's love interest in Luca Guadagnino's 2017 coming-of-age film Call Me By Your Name had it not been for his bad reputation.The movie's Oscar-winning producer-writer James Ivory detailed the behind-the-scenes drama that led to now equally-disgraced actor Armie Hammer playing 24-year-old grad student Oliver instead.'I didn't know much about [Shia], so I watched some of his films.
He's an extremely good actor,' the 93-year-old filmmaker admitted in his memoir Solid Ivory, which hits shelves next Tuesday.
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