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Dakota Johnsonarrived at theSundance Film Festival 2023armed with jokes aboutArmie Hammer.
“Luca had asked me to playthe role of the peachbut our schedules conflicted,” she told an audience, perThe Hollywood Reporter. “Thank God, though, because then I would’ve been another woman that Armie Hammer tried to eat.” (Hammer’s character, Oliver, bites into a peach in one memorable scene from the drama.)
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The director said in the interview thatBones and All"had been in development for a number of years before" it was brought to him in 2020, and that his interest in making the movie was 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 at the time.
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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.”
Back in 2021, Johnson spoke about a few of her past male costars facing serious allegations, including Hammer, who was in 2010’sThe Social Networkwith her.
“I never experienced that firsthand from any of those people. I had an incredible time working with them; I feel sad for the loss of great artists. I feel sad for people needing help and perhaps not getting it in time,“she toldTHRat the time. “I feel sad for anyone who was harmed or hurt. It’s just really sad. I do believe that people can change. I want to believe in the power of a human being to change and evolve and get help and help other people. I think there’s definitely a major overcorrection happening. But I do believe that there’s a way for the pendulum to find the middle. … But, yeah, cancel culture is such a f—ing downer. I hate that term.”
source: people.com
