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Call Me by Your Name's Director Defends Straight Casting, No Nudity

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Call Me By Your Name has defended his decision to cast straight actors as the film's gay leads.Luca Guadagnino, in a Friday interview with The Independent promoting his new Salvatore Ferragamo biopic, Shoemaker of Dreams, brushed off criticisms for casting Timothée Chalamet as the 17-year-old Elio and Armie Hammer as his older lover Oliver in his adaptation of André Aciman's queer coming-of-age novel.“I read too much Freud to be taking seriously these kind of critics,” he said. “Meaning that I honestly don’t believe I have the right to decide whether an actor is straight or not.

Who am I to know what somebody is thinking of himself or herself within themselves. Yes, Armie is a straight man with a wife and children and the same can be said.

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