Armie Hammer, the ultra-hunk who gave Timothée Chalamet’s Elio a summer to remember in 2017's Call Me By Your Name, has previously been gung-ho about revisiting the film’s gauzy, starry-eyed world, telling Variety last year that “it will happen.” Now, unfortunately, the actor is dialing back on that enthusiasm.
In a new interview with Vulture, Hammer says that, though there’s been “really loose conversations about it,” he and the team would be “setting ourselves up for disappointment” with a sequel. “I don’t know that anything will match up to the first, you know?” he said.
Hammer adds that there’s no script or plans in place, but that he’d “be an asshole to say no” if the stars aligned, which they still could. Luca Guadagnino already has a beginning mapped out, as well as a Before Sunrise-style approach in mind. Also, André Aciman, who wrote the book upon which Call Me By Your Name was based, is currently at work on a follow-up novel.
In the meantime, though, we’ll need to watch Hammer and Chalamet’s bond unfold in real life. It’s evident enough in this interview, in which Hammer reveals that he and “Timmy” still text all the time.
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Stop Calling Me By Your Name?
Call Me By My Name Already
Call Me By My Surname
Mr. Surname Lives In Florida, Please, Call Me By Your Name
Ha Ha, Oh Please, Mr. Surname Is My Father, Call Me By Your Name
Call Me By Your Name and Thank You For My Service
They Call Me MISTER By My Name.
Stop Calling Me By Your Name, That Guy Got a New Number And This Is A Pizza Place Now
Two Guys, An Armie And A Pizza Place?
Banned by the FCC: Call Revoked
Call Me (Maybe) By Your Name
Call Me By Your Name: Hawaiian Style
What, he’s got a freakin’ slice of pineapple on his dick?
Still a few films to go in the “Name” universe until we can get to Call Me by 4 Name
I’m upvoting this simply because of the user name
Armie Tame is his name. Ask him again, he’ll tell you the same!
Call Blocked.
not to be that person but why are we clambering for a sequel to a movie about a teenager and an adult in a sexual relationship? it’s not like the lgbt community already deals with enough shitty stigma and rhetoric about pedophilia
Yeah, in the sequel they’re both consenting adults. Who cares about that shit?
I fucking do as a gay person who gets sick of all our representation being boiled down to shit like this. I don’t care if they’re adults in the sequel, they started their relationship with one member underaged and at a power imbalance. Get a fucking grip, dude.
I’d rather have a Man From U.N.C.L.E. sequel.
YES. That movie is such stupid fun.
Call Me By Your N.A.M.E.?
The above photo makes me think that Hammer really wants to be naked on a bearskin rug in front of a fireplace.
Channeling Jack’s mom from “Into the Woods”“That would be okay too…..”
Not trying to be that guy, since I generally hate that guy, but…for all of the loud freaking out online any time a movie pairs an older man with a teenage girl, how exactly did Call Me By Your Name escape all of that? Is it just because REPRESENTATION IS SO IMPORTANT that no one really cared, or am I missing something?
‘Cause it’s gay and it’s Europe?
Could be. Although now I just want that to be the tagline for some brand of German clothing.
Like when Grace Bros. had their German Week?
Good. I loved the movie, and a sequel seems like a terrible idea.
I feel like a sequel would undermine the poignancy of the first movie? The focus of the film is on Elio’s gay sexual and romantic awakening, not the relationship as an “endgame” coupling. There are many kinds of significant relationships in a person’s life that don’t end in marriage or long-term commitment, and it would be nice to see that in more movies.
And that’s exactly what happens in the book — they see each other at various points but they’re never together again. If they made the sequels like that, I feel like people would be upset that they don’t end up together.
So people are trying to use the word hunk to describe just about anyone these days huh.
What’s the status of the Lone Ranger sequel?
Johnny Depp is so loaded the dead bird keeps falling off his head.
You know that thing where an 80 year old gay man who clearly has some issues writes a movie about him growing up gay and his father is also coincidentally gay and his father pimps his underage son out to a gay graduate student that the father actually wants to have sex with, but instead the son and the graduate student have sex (statutory rape) and all of the gay men are total assholes to every single female character in the film? What do you call that?
Life.
Hey, it’s not statutory rape in Italy. And James Ivory wrote the screenplay but he didn’t make up the story.
Best Picture of the Year?
I see these articles every few weeks and every time I wonder why the fuck would this movie need a sequel?It was perfect as it was.
At least he didn’t crush my dream of watching him reclining on a fur rug.