The Borneo Post (Sabah)

Armie Hammer on working with director Luca Guadagnino

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ARMIE Hammer went on an “emotional journey” working with director Luca Guadagnino on ‘Call Me By Your Name’.

The 31-year-old actor plays the role of Oliver in the romantic coming-of-age drama and admitted the passion that Guadagnino showed on set and his openness to the cast’s ideas was a completely new experience for him.

Speaking to the New York Magazine, Hammer said: “I’ve never had such an emotional journey with a director. I’ve never even considered directors to be emotional people! I don’t even know if I’ve worked with a director who even cared if I was mad at them before. It was more like, ‘Shut up and stand on your mark and do your job.’ The feeling of operating from that place of passion is really contagious and soul-satiating. It’s the safest place I’ve ever been in my life - still to this day - when i t comes t o feeling complete

I've never had such an emotional journey with a director. I've never even considered directors to be emotional people! I don't even know if I've worked with a director who even cared if I was mad at them before. Armie Hammer

empathy,completeun­derstandin­g and complete love, no matter what.

“But then ... he knows if you’re lying. He knows if you’re not being honest, whether in real life or in the performanc­e and he will not back off.

“There are a lot of things about Oliver that resonated with me, and primarily it was that projection of ease and casualness and comfort that you might not actually b e feeling all the time.” — BANG Showbiz

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Arnie Hammer (left) and Luca Guadagnino

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