Timothée Chalamet, Luca Guadagnino and Armie Hammer in 2018.Photo: Contigo/Getty
“It didn’t dawn on me. I realized this afterward when I started to be told of some of these innuendos on social media,” said the director, 51.
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Bones & All(2022).Yannis Drakoulidis/MGM/Courtesy Everett Collection
The filmmaker said his interest in the makingBones and Allwas based on how he “responded immediately to these characters who are disenfranchised and living on the edge of society.”
“Any link with anything else exists only in the realm ofsocial media, with which I do not engage,” Guadagnino continued. “The relationship between this kind of digital muckraking and our wish to make this movie is nonexistent and it should be met with a shrug.”
“I would prefer to talk about what the film has to say, rather than things that have nothing to do with it,” he added.
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“The muckraking of social media doesn’t address anything constructively, and the idea that this very profoundly important fight for equality can be misdirected in this way is something that frustrates me greatly,” he said. “We mustn’t diminish that most important thing with this muckraking.”
Chalamet, 26, wasspotted on the set of the filmback in June 2021, sporting his signature curly long locks dyed in a pink-ish red hue. In the photos, the actor also wore an unbuttoned pink shirt and Bermuda denim shorts. The starshared a brief teaserfor the movie earlier this month.
Bones and Allis in theaters Nov. 23.
source: people.com
