Timothée chalamet

Timothee seems pretty booked up right now, I'm unsure of whether there is enough demand for a sequel that he would pass up the other roles he's getting.
 
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I use the phone books phrase myself, but I guess at some point well need to retire it and replace it with something else. Maybe the service agreement for an app?

you know I thought about that as I typed it, considering phone books are significantly shorter than they used to be, we definitely need him reading something longer.
 
I’ve been sitting on this story for a while. I’m a builder and I have worked on a few film sets over the years. Back when I was an apprentice my journeyman got hired to work on Denis Villenue’s film “enemy” in Toronto. Got friendly with a lot of the crew. Even met Jake Gyllenhaal one day! Anyway, I’ve kept in touch with a hairstylist who went on to work on other films. Her colleague got hired for CMBYN and told some stories about the filming. Yes they planned a few sex scenes and full frontal nudity was also planned. The kicker is, they incorrectly assumed Timothee Chalamet was Jewish because of his mom (she’s in the biz) he and his dad’s side are French gentiles. He isn’t circumcised and that threw a wrench in the nudity scenes. They toyed with prosthetics and even CGI. Lol.It was a shitshow, and honestly wholly ridiculous. But it wouldn’t work in the context of the film. As trivial and as silly as all this seems, Andre Aciman, the author, was bullied for being circumcised growing up, so that was the reasoning behind the want for accuracy.

I’ve heard very similar things about that production. I wasn’t involved in CMBYN, but I am involved in location work, which is what Luca’s initial job in CMBYN was. So, take all of this ‘at risk’ bitchy gossip rather than fact checked!

Before going on, I wouldn’t read too much into “the actors had no frontal nudity clauses”. That is default for all contracts. Contract terms are negotiated. If frontal nudity is required, it’s specified before signing and non-standard frontal nudity clauses are inserted after negotiation. As there was ultimately no frontal nudity, the production wouldn’t waste money to negotiate non-standard frontal nudity clauses in.

So, the tea…. Originally CMBYN was very much a James Ivory comeback film with Shia LaBeouf attached as the lead. Apparently it was quite raunchy and featured frontal nudity.

There was a coup with Luca part financing and agreeing to make it for a quarter of Ivory’s budget. With that coup Shia LaBeouf’s involvement walked, so it was a stalled production with no actors and little budget.

Luca's turnaround focused on getting Armie Hammer onboard. Chalamet’s involvement was inauspicious bedroom politics, with one of the producers seeing a payday by getting their partner’s unknown client cast.

Word on the street was that both actors were problematic. Hammer didn’t want to do anything raunchy and said a flat out no to frontal nudity. Chalamet didn’t have any of the special skills Elio’s part required (e.g. musical background, Italian language skills).

On nudity I heard two things. Firstly, that Hammer was a flat out no and secondly, that Chalamet’s people said he couldn’t because he’s not circumcised.

In the end, who knows if those things were really said, or if so, that Chalamet’s people told the truth?

Despite the whole production sounding like a chaotic shitshow, you have to admit they made a damn fine movie in the end.