When Dakota Johnson stepped onstage to current Oscar-nominated filmmaker Luca Guadagnino with an honor at Sundance, she was apparently craving chaos. Whereas paying tribute to the director, who solid her in 2015’s A Greater Splash and 2018’s Suspiria, Johnson raised eyebrows by referencing allegations in opposition to Armie Hammer, the fallen star of Guadagnino’s Name Me by Your Identify.
“Sadly, I wasn’t in that one—it was unlucky,” Johnson mentioned, based on The Hollywood Reporter, of the 2017 movie, which premiered at Sundance earlier than incomes 4 Oscar nominations. “Luca had requested me to play the function of the peach however our schedules conflicted. Thank god although as a result of then I might’ve been one other lady that Armie Hammer tried to eat.” In one of many movie’s most notorious scenes, Timothée Chalamet’s character masturbates with the piece of fruit, which is later discovered by Hammer’s character.
Years after Name Me by Your Identify’s launch, Hammer was dropped by his expertise company and publicist after DMs that he allegedly despatched describing graphic sexual fantasies—together with rape, cannibalism, and violence—have been leaked on-line. The actor’s alleged proclivities have been additionally detailed in VF’s “The Fall of the Home of Hammer” story. In March 2021, the Los Angeles Police Division opened an investigation into Hammer over a rape accusation however has but to convey any prices. By way of a lawyer, Hammer has denied all accusations and maintained that each one sexual interactions “have been fully consensual, mentioned and agreed upon prematurely, and mutually participatory.”
Presenting Guadagnino with the Sundance Institute Worldwide Icon Award on the opening night time occasion, Johnson then referenced his newest movie, Bones and All, which stars Chalamet and Taylor Russell as cannibalistic lovers. “It’s been 5 years since [Call Me by Your Name] premiered right here and Luca hasn’t stopped taking us to thrilling locations,” she mentioned. “Who knew cannibalism was so fashionable?”
Johnson, who labored with Hammer in 2010’s The Social Community and once more in 2019’s Wounds, beforehand defended him together with different embattled costars equivalent to Johnny Depp and Shia LaBeouf in opposition to cancel tradition stemming from allegations of misconduct in opposition to every of them. “I by no means skilled that firsthand from any of these individuals,” she informed The Hollywood Reporter in 2021. “I had an unbelievable time working with them; I really feel unhappy for the lack of nice artists. I really feel unhappy for individuals needing assist and maybe not getting it in time. I really feel unhappy for anybody who was harmed or harm. It’s simply actually unhappy. I do consider that individuals can change.”
