It’s been five years since filmmaker Luca Guadagnino crowned Timothée Chalamet as one of the most promising actors of his generation in Call me by your nameand now, the duo have returned to Italy to launch another heart-wrenching romantic first love story.
Release at the Venice Film Festival, Bones & All is a story set in the American Midwest of the ’80s about two teenage cannibals, Maren (Taylor Russell) and Lee (Chalamet), who bond over a preference for meat. people and paralyze loneliness in a world that will never understand or accept them.
During the film’s press conference, Chalamet discussed why he’s starring in a more intimate, character-driven movie between the two installments of the sci-fi epic. Sand dunes.
“That story is about a man with a prophecy — on a road, and unable to get out,” Chalamet said. “I would love to work with Luca again to tell a story as grounded as the first we told, just this time in the Midwest in the 80s about people deprived of their lives. rights in every possible way.”
Chalamet heaped praise on Guadagnino for welcoming his input “in a scripted sense,” including taking his character Lee “from an alpha-jock kid to a broken soul”. Ever since the picture explores two lost souls who have always been shunned by the judgment of the world, the actors have seen parallels between their plight and that of Gen Zers in the heavy social media landscape. judgment today.
“You are young now, and being young whenever — I can only speak for my generation — has to be evaluated strongly,” Chalamet explains. “I can’t imagine what it’s like to grow up with the onslaught of social media, and it’s a relief to play characters struggling with internal dilemmas without being able to to Reddit, Twitter, Instagram or TikTok and picture. where they fit. “
“I think social collapse is up in the air — or it smells like it — and, needless to brag, that’s why hopefully movies are important…“
“There is no need to judge that, you maybe found your tribe there, but I think it’s hard to survive now,” he added. “I think social collapse is up in the air — or it smells like it — and, no need to brag, that’s why film hope matters, because that’s the role it plays. by the artist… illuminating what’s going on.”
Russell recalls Chalamet’s anxiety over our youth: “I have a 19- or 20-year-old brother, and am thinking about him in this world, and his self-judgment and judgment of others. that everyone seems to be filled with every day like that. fiercely and severely is very scary, because hoping that you can find your own compass in all of it and that seems like a difficult task now. “
