Timothée Chalamet addresses cannibalism allegations against Armie Hammer

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Call Me By Your Name co-star Armie Hammer.The pair co-starred in Luca Guadagnino’s 2017 romance about a boy (Chalamet) who falls in love with his father’s graduate student assistant (Hammer) while on holiday in Italy.In 2021, Hammer was accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women and rape by one woman.

Hammer denied any criminal wrongdoing, but did admit that he had “one million per cent” emotionally abused two women, who had accused him of sexual misconduct.

In both relationships he had with those women, he said that “the power dynamics were off”.Hammer was also accused of expressing a fetish for cannibalism to a number of women via text.In a new interview with GQ, Chalamet was asked about the timing of the allegations, which coincided with his filming of Guadagnino’s cannibal love story Bones And All.“I mean, what were the chances that we’re developing this thing?” Chalamet said.On seeing reports suggesting that the film was inspired by Hammer, he added: “It made me feel like: ‘Now I’ve really got to do this.’ Because this is actually based on a book.”Asked for his own personal thoughts on the allegations, Chalamet replied: “I don’t know.

These things end up getting clickbaited so intensely. Disorienting is a good word.”In light of the accusations, Hammer was subsequently dropped by his agent and publicist and exited multiple projects, including Lionsgate comedy Shotgun Wedding and Godfather mini-series The Offer.