According to a published excerpt in GQ, the Academy Award winner revealed that former Disney star Shia LaBeouf initially read for the part of Oliver. “Shia came to read for us in New York with Timothée Chalamet, paying for his own plane ticket, and [director Luca Guadagnino] and I had been blown away,” Ivory wrote. “The reading by the two young actors had been sensational; they made a very convincing hot couple.” He went on to say that Shia’s chances of landing the role were nixed after abuse allegations against singer FKA Twigs made headlines. “He had had some bad publicity.
He’d fought with his girlfriend; he’d fended off the police somewhere when they had tried to calm him down,” Ivory explained. “And Luca would not call him, or his