Timothée Chalamet addresses making a cannibal movie, Bones and All, amid the cannibal allegations against Armie Hammer. In 2017, Chalamet and Hammer starred together in Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me by Your Name as 17-year-old and 24-year-old students who engage in a romantic relationship in 1980s Italy. Around the same time the cannibal allegations surfaced against Hammer in 2021, Chalamet reunited with Guadagnino for Bones and All, which follows two young cannibals in love (the other played by Taylor Russell) who embark on a cross-country road trip across 1980s America.
In a recent profile by GQ, Chalamet opened up about making Bones and All amid the cannibal allegations against Hammer. The Oscar-nominated actor says the timing was purely coincidental: “I mean, what were the chances that we’re developing this thing? It made me feel like: Now I’ve really got to do this, because this is actually based on a book.” Asked directly about his reaction to the allegations against Hammer, Chalamet responded, “I don’t know. These things end up getting clickbaited so intensely. Disorienting is a good word.”
The Armie Hammer Cannibal Allegations Explained
Guadagnino was already in pre-production on Bones and All when the cannibal allegations against Chalamet’s Call Me by Your Name co-star surfaced. In 2021, Hammer was accused by multiple women of various types of abuse, some sexual. These accusations included sharing disturbing sexual fantasies in which he depicted himself as a cannibal. Leaked messages allegedly sent to a woman by Hammer said, “I am 100% a cannibal. I want to eat you.” The actor has denied all the allegations against him and while there have been no charges against him, Hammer has been dropped from many projects.
The cannibal allegations against Hammer raised questions about the choice of subject for Chalamet and Guadagnino’s next film. Some found it insensitive, though others wondered why Bones and All didn’t embrace the bizarre connection even more. There were even false reports at the time claiming the film was inspired by current events, which motivated Chalamet to do the movie even more. As he mentions, Bones and All is based on a book by Camille DeAngelis, and not the real-life cannibal allegations against Hammer, which occurred completely by coincidence.
