Timothée Chalamet Talks 'Call Me By Your Name'
If you learn one name before award season, make it Timothée Chalamet. (Pronounce it the American way—his friends call him “Timmy.”) The 21-year-old had the definition of a breakout year in 2017, featuring in not one but two Oscar-buzzed films. He got people’s attention as philosophical anarchist Kyle in Lady Bird, but it’s his role as the vulnerable Elio Perlman in Call Me By Your Name that could earn him an Academy Award.
The film, a heart-wrenching romance adapted from the 2007 novel by André Aciman, follows 17-year-old Elio as he falls in love with Oliver (Armie Hammer), the older, taller and blonder American student living with his family for the summer. Under the guidance of Italian director Luca Guadagnino (I Am Love, A Bigger Splash), Chalamet steals every scene. He effortlessly speaks three languages, plays a Bach piece three different ways and tackles one of the most talked about sex scenes of the year: Elio masturbates with a peach.
Chalamet’s success is not happenstance; he’s clearly a dedicated scholar of his craft (he spent his). He spoke to about his breakout year, working with a director as nitpicky as Guadagnino and bringing vulnerability and intimacy to the screen.
