‘You had a betiful iendship. Maybe more than a iendship. And I envy you.’ Michael Stuhlbarg talks about his Osr-worthy monologue about a dad’s acceptance of his gay son.
Contents:
- CALL ME BY YOUR NAME THOR NFIRMS EL’S DAD ISN’T GAY
- ‘CALL ME BY YOUR NAME’ THOR REVEALS EL’S DAD IS NOT GAY
- THE ‘CALL ME BY YOUR NAME’ MONOLOGUE LEAVG AUDIENC TEARSPEACHY‘YOU HAD A BETIFUL IENDSHIP. MAYBE MORE THAN A IENDSHIP. AND I ENVY YOU.’ MICHAEL STUHLBARG TALKS ABOUT HIS OSR-WORTHY MONOLOGUE ABOUT A DAD’S ACCEPTANCE OF HIS GAY SON.KEV FALLONSENR EDOR, OBSSEDUPDATED NOV. 28, 2017 12:46PM EST / PUBLISHED NOV. 28, 2017 5:00AM EST SONY PICTUR CLASSICSTHERE HAS BEEN NO SHORTAGE OF THGS TO TALK ABOUT WHEN TO CALL ME BY YOUR NAME, THE GEO SWOON OF A ROMANCE THAT, AFTER BUTG TO A STANDG OVATN AT THE SUNDANCE FILM FTIVAL 10 MONTHS AGO, FALLY H THEATERS OVER THE WEEKEND TO RAVE REVIEWS.BASED ON ANDRé ACIMAN’S NOVEL OF THE SAME NAME, LU GUADAGNO’S FILM PICTS THE SIMULTANEOLY SWEET AND RNAL ROMANCE BETWEEN 17-YEAR-OLD EL (TIMOTHéE CHALAMET) AND A 24-YEAR-OLD GRAD STUNT NAMED OLIVER (ARMIE HAMMER), WHO STAYS WH EL’S FAY AT AN ITALIAN VILLA FOR ONE SWEAT- AND PASSN-SOAKED SUMMER THE LATE ’80S.THERE’S BEEN OSR TALK GALORE SURROUNDG THE FILM. THERE’S BEEN BATE OVER THE EXPLICNS OF S SEX SCEN. THERE’S BEEN FANTASIZG ABOUT A CALL ME BY YOUR NAME ANCHISE, DISSECTNS OF S STARS’ REERS, AND ENDLS TALK ABOUT THE STORY’S FAMO PEACH SCENE.BUT FOR ALL THE TALK OF SEX AND LOVE AND MASTURBATG WH ORCHARD US, THERE’S ANOTHER MOMENT THE FILM THAT ANYONE WHO SE N’T STOP TALKG ABOUT. IT’S A SCENE THAT, FOR THE TENSE NNECTN BETWEEN EL AND OLIVER, IS ACTUALLY THE LYNCHP THAT MAK THIS LOVE STORY SO POWERFUL, AND SO AFFECTG. SONY PICTUR CLASSICS DELIVERED BY MICHAEL STUHLBARG, WHO PLAYS EL’S FATHER, ’S AN EMOTNAL MONOLOGUE ABOUT UNNDNAL LOVE AND ACCEPTANCE THAT IS MAKG DIENC WEEP, AND ULD VERY WELL W THE VETERAN ACTOR (A SER MAN, STEVE JOBS, FX’S FARGO) THE BT SUPPORTG ACTOR OSR.STUHLBARG IS A RARE, IF NOT HISTORIC, POSN, WHICH HE HAS SIGNIFINT SUPPORTG ROL THREE PREDICTED BT PICTURE ONTNNERS—THE SHAPE OF WATER, THE POST, CALL ME BY YOUR NAME—BUT ’S HIS ROLE THE LATTER, WH A MONOLOGUE THAT MIGHT JT BE THE BT OF THE YEAR, THAT IS GARNERG HIM SOME OF THE YEAR’S BIGGT ACLAS.(LIGHT SPOILERS FOLLOW.)THE SPEECH JT AS THE FILM IS NEARLY OVER. EL IS NURSG HIS HEARTBREAK AFTER OLIVER HEADS BACK TO THE U.S. AT THE SUMMER’S NCLN, AND HIS FATHER, MR. PERLMAN (STUHLBARG), THE PROFSOR OLIVER HAD BEEN STUDYG WH, LLS HIM OVER FOR A NVERSATN ON THE UCH.WHOUT MAKG ASSUMPTNS, WHOUT MAKG EL UNFORTABLE, AND WHOUT OVERSTEPPG HIS BOUNDS, MR. PERLMAN TELLS EL THAT HE NOTICED THE TENSE NNECTN HE HAD WH OLIVER. HE DON’T JUDGE. IN FACT, HE WANTS TO MAKE CLEAR THAT HE ACCEPTS . THAT HE ENURAG . THAT HE MAY EVEN BE JEALO THAT EL HAS BEEN ABLE TO FD SOMEONE TO FEEL SO TENSELY ABOUT, REGARDLS OF GENR. AND REMEMBER FOLKS, THIS IS THE ’80S! “YOU HAD A BETIFUL IENDSHIP,” MR. PERLMAN TELLS EL. “MAYBE MORE THAN A IENDSHIP. AND I ENVY YOU.” (WHAT FOLLOWS IS THE SPEECH’S TEXT AS IS ACIMAN’S BOOK, WHICH NEARLY EXACTLY MIRRORS THE SPEECH GUADAGNO’S FILM.)“IN MY PLACE, MOST PARENTS WOULD HOPE THE WHOLE THG GO AWAY, OR PRAY THAT THEIR SONS LAND ON THEIR FEET SOON ENOUGH,” MR. PERLMAN SAYS. “BUT I AM NOT SUCH A PARENT. IN YOUR PLACE, IF THERE IS PA, NURSE , AND IF THERE IS A FLAME, DON’T SNUFF OUT, DON’T BE BTAL WH . WHDRAWAL N BE A TERRIBLE THG WHEN KEEPS AWAKE AT NIGHT, AND WATCHG OTHERS FET SOONER THAN WE’D WANT TO BE FOTTEN IS NO BETTER. WE RIP OUT SO MUCH OF OURSELV TO BE CURED OF THGS FASTER THAN WE SHOULD THAT WE GO BANKPT BY THE AGE OF 30 AND HAVE LS TO OFFER EACH TIME WE START WH SOMEONE NEW. BUT TO FEEL NOTHG SO AS NOT TO FEEL ANYTHG—WHAT A WASTE!” THE SPEECH, SOME REGARDS, IS WISH-FULFILLMENT FOR MANY GAY PEOPLE, WHO ULD ONLY DREAM OF BEG GREETED WH SUCH UNBRIDLED LOVE AND UNRSTANDG OF WHO THEY ARE BY THEIR PARENTS.BUT WHILE CHARACTER TYP LIKE “WORLD’S BT DAD” OR THE “I DON’T KNOW HOW SHE DO IT” MOM HAVE BEE STOCK CLICHéS BEE OF THE WAYS THE ARCHETYP NFE PARENTG WH FALLIBLE SUPERHEROISM, ’S THE QUIET HUMANY AND THE SUAL GRAVY THAT STUHLBARG LENDS MR. PERLMAN THAT MAK THE CHARACTER, AND SPECIFILLY THAT SPEECH, SO POWERFUL.“FIVE ME IF I HAVE SPOKEN OUT OF TURN,” MR. PERLMAN TELLS EL DURG THAT MONOLOGUE. “I WILL HAVE BEEN A TERRIBLE FATHER IF, ONE DAY, YOU’D WANT TO SPEAK TO ME AND FELT THE DOOR WAS SHUT, OR NOT SUFFICIENTLY OPEN.”FOR ALL THE FILM’S ROMANCE, THAT’S THE MOMENT THAT MAK THE DIENCE SWOON.“ALL YOU N HOPE FOR IS AN OPPORTUNY TO TELL A STORY THAT SEEMS TO BE WHAT A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE LIVED THROUGH, AND PERHAPS PRENT A DIFFERENT VERSN OF WHAT SEEMS MOST PEOPLE MAY HAVE GONE THROUGH TRYG TO MUNITE WH A PARENT ABOUT WHO THEY ARE, WHAT THEY FEEL, WHAT THEIR LIV HAVE BEEN LIKE,” STUHLBARG TOLD THE DAILY BEAST DURG AN TERVIEW LAST WEEK BEFORE CALL ME BY YOUR NAME H THEATERS. “I’M GRATEFUL THAT PEOPLE HAVE EXPRSED WHAT THEY’RE GOG THROUGH AND WHAT MEANT TO THEM. TO BE ON THE RECEIVG END OF IS BREATHTAKG AND HUMBLG. ABSOLUTELY HUMBLG.”MICHAEL STUHLBARG IS REFUL WH HIS WORDS, MUCH THE SAME WAY THAT HIS CALL ME BY YOUR NAME CHARACTER IS. MR. PERLMAN REGNIZ THE EMOTNAL TENSY OF THE NVERSATN HE’S HAVG WH EL, AND WANTS TO NFIRM THAT HE ISN’T SPEAKG OUT OF TURN, ANX ABOUT UPSETTG HIS SON ANY WAY OR BETRAYG THEIR LITE RELATNSHIP.AS WE SPEAK, STUHLBARG, TOO, SEEMS SENSIVE TO THE FACT THAT HIS FILM BEARS A LOT OF IMPORTANCE TO A LOT OF PEOPLE, AND APPEARS WARY OF MISSPEAKG A WAY THAT WOULD RATTLE THAT MOMENT OR SULLY THE FILM’S IMPACT. HE TAK LONG PS TO NSIR HOW HE WANTS TO WORD THGS, SPEAKG REFULLY, QUIETLY, AND LIBERATELY, AND POLELY NFIRMG THAT HE’S ANSWERED OUR QUTNS. BUT HE’S ALSO REFUL NOT TO ARTICULATE SOMETHG TOO STRONGLY SO AS TO MISREPRENT HIS FILM AND S MSAGE.WE BRG UP THE TENSN, FOR EXAMPLE, THAT HAS SEEMED TO FOLLOW THE LEAD-UP TO CALL ME BY YOUR NAME’S RELEASE, AT LEAST TERMS OF HOW THE FILM IS MARKETED AND CHARACTERIZED THE PRS. IT’S A FILM THAT OBVLY STRIK A CHORD WH A GAY DIENCE BEE ’S SUCH A BETIFUL, RARE PICTN OF A LOVE STORY BETWEEN TWO MEN. AT THE SAME TIME, THE LOVE STORY SHOULD BE REGARD AS UNIVERSAL, REGARDLS OF THE SEXUALY OF THE PROTAGONISTS.TH THERE’S BEEN SOME TANGIBLE HAND-WRGG OVER WHETHER LLG THE FILM A GAY LOVE STORY WILL ALIENATE SOME OF S DIENCE, OR RELEGATE TO A QUEER FILM GHETTO OF SORTS, WHEN IS A UNIVERSAL STORY THAT SERV A MASTREAM DIENCE. YET IS A GAY STORY AND THE FACT THAT IS A GAY STORY MATTERS. IT’S A PLITED NVERSATN. WHAT DO STUHLBARG MAKE OF THE BATE?“LU LLS A FAY STORY,” STUHLBARG. “IT’S AS MUCH ABOUT FAY AS IS ABOUT THOSE THGS. BUT, AS YOU SAY, ’S G AT A UNIQUE TIME. I THK ONE OF THE UNIQUE ASPECTS OF IS THAT THERE’S NO REAL ANTAGONIST THE STORY OTHER THAN TIME, THE FACT THAT THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE EACH OTHER DON’T HAVE A LOT OF TIME TO SPEND TOGETHER. AT LEAST THIS SUATN THEY DON’T.“I THK THE LANGUAGE OF HOW WE TALK ABOUT IS TERTG,” HE SAYS. “I THK PEOPLE WILL E AT OM THEIR OWN UNIQUE PERSPECTIV AND ARTICULATE THE WAY PERHAPS THAT THEY N AT THIS MOMENT. MAYBE WILL BE THE BEGNG OF JT ARTICULATG AS A LOVE STORY AS OPPOSED TO BEG SE-SPECIFIC. BUT I ALSO THK ’S IMPORTANT TO CELEBRATE FOR WHAT IS OM EVERY PERSPECTIVE. MAYBE WILL START A DIALOGUE AT A TIME WHEN WE SHOULD BE TALKG ABOUT .”STUHLBARG IS BY NO MEANS RISTANT TO TALKG ABOUT PLEX SUBJECT MATTERS. AS WE WROTE LAST WEEK, HE WAS DIPLOMATIC AND GRAC WHILE DISCSG THE NCELLATN OF GORE, NETFLIX’S GORE VIDAL BPIC WHICH STUHLBARG PORTRAYED VIDAL’S LONGTIME LOVER, THE WAKE OF ALLEGATNS OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT MA AGAST S STAR, KEV SPACEY. BUT HE DO BEE VISIBLY MORE ANIMATED WHEN WE DISCS THE MECHANICS OF MAKG CALL ME BY YOUR NAME, NFIRMG SPICNS THAT THIS IS AN ACTOR MORE PASSNATE ABOUT “THE CRAFT” THAN THE NOISE THAT SURROUNDS .WE TALK ABOUT WHETHER HE HAD ANY IA THERE WOULD BE SUCH AN TENSE REACTN TO HIS MONOLOGUE. “I DIDN’T KNOW,” HE SAYS. “MY AGENT WARNED ME. SHE SAID THERE’S A SPEECH AT THE END OF THIS THAT H HER HARD. SHE SAID, ‘WA, YOU’LL SEE.’”WE TALK ABOUT GRAPPLG WH HOW TO EVEN APPROACH LIVERG A MONOLOGUE AS MONUMENTAL AS THIS ONE. IT HELPED THAT THE FILM WAS SHOT CHRONOLOGILLY, HE SAYS, AND THAT BY THAT POT HE HAD GROWN CLOSE TO CHALAMET AND GUADAGNO. PL, THERE WERE SCEN THAT WERE SHOT TAILG MORE OF MR. PERLMAN’S RELATNSHIP WH HIS WIFE AND WH HIS SON THAT DIDN’T MAKE THE FILM’S FAL CUT. “I WAS READY TO LET BE WHAT WAS GOG TO BE,” HE SAYS ABOUT THE PERFORMG THE MONOLOGUE.WE TALK ABOUT THE MOOD ON SET THE DAY THE SPEECH WAS FILMED. “INTIMATE,” HE SAYS, WH A LONG PSE. “IN THE BT WAY.”BUT EVEN THOUGH, AT LEAST TO THIS REPORTER, HE ME OFF AS RATHER SHY AND CERTALY HUMBLE WHILE DISCSG HIS PERFORMANCE AND S IMPACT, HE WAS STILL MOST ELOQUENT WHEN DISCSG JT THAT. EVEN IF, ONCE AGA, HE IS REFUL ABOUT CHOOSG THOSE WORDS.“TO BIRTH A PROJECT THAT CELEBRAT TOLERANCE—NOT TOLERANCE, FIVE ME—THAT CELEBRAT PASSN AND TENRNS, I’M ALL FOR THAT,” HE SAYS. “IT’S A NEED THG, I THK, TODAY THE STORI THAT WE SHARE WH EACH OTHER. WE ULD ALL DO A WHOLE LOT OF GOOD BY CELEBRATG AND SHARG STORI OF CLOSENS AND TIMACY AND KDNS [MORE] THAN NECSARILY JT SHOOTG THGS AND BLOWG THGS UP.” KEV FALLON
CALL ME BY YOUR NAME THOR NFIRMS EL’S DAD ISN’T GAY
Fans have long wonred whether or not El's father had a gay relatnship like his son did, but Aciman says that's not how he wrote . * is elio's dad gay in cmbyn *
“Call Me by Your Name” thor André Aciman is currently makg the prs rounds support of his new book “Fd Me, ” a sequel to his beloved 2007 gay romance novel. So when he spls wh his wife [ the sequel], he’s not spltg bee he has homosexual tennci, but simply bee somethg mt have gone wrong their marriage.
‘CALL ME BY YOUR NAME’ THOR REVEALS EL’S DAD IS NOT GAY
Was he jt tellg El (played by Timothée Chalamet) that he knew about his gay relatnship wh Oliver? “He’s not spltg bee he has homosexual tennci, but simply bee somethg mt have gone wrong their marriage, ” said Aciman. ” was terpreted by many fans to be a suggtn that Samuel himself is gay, and has remaed the closet.
THE ‘CALL ME BY YOUR NAME’ MONOLOGUE LEAVG AUDIENC TEARSPEACHY‘YOU HAD A BETIFUL IENDSHIP. MAYBE MORE THAN A IENDSHIP. AND I ENVY YOU.’ MICHAEL STUHLBARG TALKS ABOUT HIS OSR-WORTHY MONOLOGUE ABOUT A DAD’S ACCEPTANCE OF HIS GAY SON.KEV FALLONSENR EDOR, OBSSEDUPDATED NOV. 28, 2017 12:46PM EST / PUBLISHED NOV. 28, 2017 5:00AM EST SONY PICTUR CLASSICSTHERE HAS BEEN NO SHORTAGE OF THGS TO TALK ABOUT WHEN TO CALL ME BY YOUR NAME, THE GEO SWOON OF A ROMANCE THAT, AFTER BUTG TO A STANDG OVATN AT THE SUNDANCE FILM FTIVAL 10 MONTHS AGO, FALLY H THEATERS OVER THE WEEKEND TO RAVE REVIEWS.BASED ON ANDRé ACIMAN’S NOVEL OF THE SAME NAME, LU GUADAGNO’S FILM PICTS THE SIMULTANEOLY SWEET AND RNAL ROMANCE BETWEEN 17-YEAR-OLD EL (TIMOTHéE CHALAMET) AND A 24-YEAR-OLD GRAD STUNT NAMED OLIVER (ARMIE HAMMER), WHO STAYS WH EL’S FAY AT AN ITALIAN VILLA FOR ONE SWEAT- AND PASSN-SOAKED SUMMER THE LATE ’80S.THERE’S BEEN OSR TALK GALORE SURROUNDG THE FILM. THERE’S BEEN BATE OVER THE EXPLICNS OF S SEX SCEN. THERE’S BEEN FANTASIZG ABOUT A CALL ME BY YOUR NAME ANCHISE, DISSECTNS OF S STARS’ REERS, AND ENDLS TALK ABOUT THE STORY’S FAMO PEACH SCENE.BUT FOR ALL THE TALK OF SEX AND LOVE AND MASTURBATG WH ORCHARD US, THERE’S ANOTHER MOMENT THE FILM THAT ANYONE WHO SE N’T STOP TALKG ABOUT. IT’S A SCENE THAT, FOR THE TENSE NNECTN BETWEEN EL AND OLIVER, IS ACTUALLY THE LYNCHP THAT MAK THIS LOVE STORY SO POWERFUL, AND SO AFFECTG. SONY PICTUR CLASSICS DELIVERED BY MICHAEL STUHLBARG, WHO PLAYS EL’S FATHER, ’S AN EMOTNAL MONOLOGUE ABOUT UNNDNAL LOVE AND ACCEPTANCE THAT IS MAKG DIENC WEEP, AND ULD VERY WELL W THE VETERAN ACTOR (A SER MAN, STEVE JOBS, FX’S FARGO) THE BT SUPPORTG ACTOR OSR.STUHLBARG IS A RARE, IF NOT HISTORIC, POSN, WHICH HE HAS SIGNIFINT SUPPORTG ROL THREE PREDICTED BT PICTURE ONTNNERS—THE SHAPE OF WATER, THE POST, CALL ME BY YOUR NAME—BUT ’S HIS ROLE THE LATTER, WH A MONOLOGUE THAT MIGHT JT BE THE BT OF THE YEAR, THAT IS GARNERG HIM SOME OF THE YEAR’S BIGGT ACLAS.(LIGHT SPOILERS FOLLOW.)THE SPEECH JT AS THE FILM IS NEARLY OVER. EL IS NURSG HIS HEARTBREAK AFTER OLIVER HEADS BACK TO THE U.S. AT THE SUMMER’S NCLN, AND HIS FATHER, MR. PERLMAN (STUHLBARG), THE PROFSOR OLIVER HAD BEEN STUDYG WH, LLS HIM OVER FOR A NVERSATN ON THE UCH.WHOUT MAKG ASSUMPTNS, WHOUT MAKG EL UNFORTABLE, AND WHOUT OVERSTEPPG HIS BOUNDS, MR. PERLMAN TELLS EL THAT HE NOTICED THE TENSE NNECTN HE HAD WH OLIVER. HE DON’T JUDGE. IN FACT, HE WANTS TO MAKE CLEAR THAT HE ACCEPTS . THAT HE ENURAG . THAT HE MAY EVEN BE JEALO THAT EL HAS BEEN ABLE TO FD SOMEONE TO FEEL SO TENSELY ABOUT, REGARDLS OF GENR. AND REMEMBER FOLKS, THIS IS THE ’80S! “YOU HAD A BETIFUL IENDSHIP,” MR. PERLMAN TELLS EL. “MAYBE MORE THAN A IENDSHIP. AND I ENVY YOU.” (WHAT FOLLOWS IS THE SPEECH’S TEXT AS IS ACIMAN’S BOOK, WHICH NEARLY EXACTLY MIRRORS THE SPEECH GUADAGNO’S FILM.)“IN MY PLACE, MOST PARENTS WOULD HOPE THE WHOLE THG GO AWAY, OR PRAY THAT THEIR SONS LAND ON THEIR FEET SOON ENOUGH,” MR. PERLMAN SAYS. “BUT I AM NOT SUCH A PARENT. IN YOUR PLACE, IF THERE IS PA, NURSE , AND IF THERE IS A FLAME, DON’T SNUFF OUT, DON’T BE BTAL WH . WHDRAWAL N BE A TERRIBLE THG WHEN KEEPS AWAKE AT NIGHT, AND WATCHG OTHERS FET SOONER THAN WE’D WANT TO BE FOTTEN IS NO BETTER. WE RIP OUT SO MUCH OF OURSELV TO BE CURED OF THGS FASTER THAN WE SHOULD THAT WE GO BANKPT BY THE AGE OF 30 AND HAVE LS TO OFFER EACH TIME WE START WH SOMEONE NEW. BUT TO FEEL NOTHG SO AS NOT TO FEEL ANYTHG—WHAT A WASTE!” THE SPEECH, SOME REGARDS, IS WISH-FULFILLMENT FOR MANY GAY PEOPLE, WHO ULD ONLY DREAM OF BEG GREETED WH SUCH UNBRIDLED LOVE AND UNRSTANDG OF WHO THEY ARE BY THEIR PARENTS.BUT WHILE CHARACTER TYP LIKE “WORLD’S BT DAD” OR THE “I DON’T KNOW HOW SHE DO IT” MOM HAVE BEE STOCK CLICHéS BEE OF THE WAYS THE ARCHETYP NFE PARENTG WH FALLIBLE SUPERHEROISM, ’S THE QUIET HUMANY AND THE SUAL GRAVY THAT STUHLBARG LENDS MR. PERLMAN THAT MAK THE CHARACTER, AND SPECIFILLY THAT SPEECH, SO POWERFUL.“FIVE ME IF I HAVE SPOKEN OUT OF TURN,” MR. PERLMAN TELLS EL DURG THAT MONOLOGUE. “I WILL HAVE BEEN A TERRIBLE FATHER IF, ONE DAY, YOU’D WANT TO SPEAK TO ME AND FELT THE DOOR WAS SHUT, OR NOT SUFFICIENTLY OPEN.”FOR ALL THE FILM’S ROMANCE, THAT’S THE MOMENT THAT MAK THE DIENCE SWOON.“ALL YOU N HOPE FOR IS AN OPPORTUNY TO TELL A STORY THAT SEEMS TO BE WHAT A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE LIVED THROUGH, AND PERHAPS PRENT A DIFFERENT VERSN OF WHAT SEEMS MOST PEOPLE MAY HAVE GONE THROUGH TRYG TO MUNITE WH A PARENT ABOUT WHO THEY ARE, WHAT THEY FEEL, WHAT THEIR LIV HAVE BEEN LIKE,” STUHLBARG TOLD THE DAILY BEAST DURG AN TERVIEW LAST WEEK BEFORE CALL ME BY YOUR NAME H THEATERS. “I’M GRATEFUL THAT PEOPLE HAVE EXPRSED WHAT THEY’RE GOG THROUGH AND WHAT MEANT TO THEM. TO BE ON THE RECEIVG END OF IS BREATHTAKG AND HUMBLG. ABSOLUTELY HUMBLG.”MICHAEL STUHLBARG IS REFUL WH HIS WORDS, MUCH THE SAME WAY THAT HIS CALL ME BY YOUR NAME CHARACTER IS. MR. PERLMAN REGNIZ THE EMOTNAL TENSY OF THE NVERSATN HE’S HAVG WH EL, AND WANTS TO NFIRM THAT HE ISN’T SPEAKG OUT OF TURN, ANX ABOUT UPSETTG HIS SON ANY WAY OR BETRAYG THEIR LITE RELATNSHIP.AS WE SPEAK, STUHLBARG, TOO, SEEMS SENSIVE TO THE FACT THAT HIS FILM BEARS A LOT OF IMPORTANCE TO A LOT OF PEOPLE, AND APPEARS WARY OF MISSPEAKG A WAY THAT WOULD RATTLE THAT MOMENT OR SULLY THE FILM’S IMPACT. HE TAK LONG PS TO NSIR HOW HE WANTS TO WORD THGS, SPEAKG REFULLY, QUIETLY, AND LIBERATELY, AND POLELY NFIRMG THAT HE’S ANSWERED OUR QUTNS. BUT HE’S ALSO REFUL NOT TO ARTICULATE SOMETHG TOO STRONGLY SO AS TO MISREPRENT HIS FILM AND S MSAGE.WE BRG UP THE TENSN, FOR EXAMPLE, THAT HAS SEEMED TO FOLLOW THE LEAD-UP TO CALL ME BY YOUR NAME’S RELEASE, AT LEAST TERMS OF HOW THE FILM IS MARKETED AND CHARACTERIZED THE PRS. IT’S A FILM THAT OBVLY STRIK A CHORD WH A GAY DIENCE BEE ’S SUCH A BETIFUL, RARE PICTN OF A LOVE STORY BETWEEN TWO MEN. AT THE SAME TIME, THE LOVE STORY SHOULD BE REGARD AS UNIVERSAL, REGARDLS OF THE SEXUALY OF THE PROTAGONISTS.TH THERE’S BEEN SOME TANGIBLE HAND-WRGG OVER WHETHER LLG THE FILM A GAY LOVE STORY WILL ALIENATE SOME OF S DIENCE, OR RELEGATE TO A QUEER FILM GHETTO OF SORTS, WHEN IS A UNIVERSAL STORY THAT SERV A MASTREAM DIENCE. YET IS A GAY STORY AND THE FACT THAT IS A GAY STORY MATTERS. IT’S A PLITED NVERSATN. WHAT DO STUHLBARG MAKE OF THE BATE?“LU LLS A FAY STORY,” STUHLBARG. “IT’S AS MUCH ABOUT FAY AS IS ABOUT THOSE THGS. BUT, AS YOU SAY, ’S G AT A UNIQUE TIME. I THK ONE OF THE UNIQUE ASPECTS OF IS THAT THERE’S NO REAL ANTAGONIST THE STORY OTHER THAN TIME, THE FACT THAT THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE EACH OTHER DON’T HAVE A LOT OF TIME TO SPEND TOGETHER. AT LEAST THIS SUATN THEY DON’T.“I THK THE LANGUAGE OF HOW WE TALK ABOUT IS TERTG,” HE SAYS. “I THK PEOPLE WILL E AT OM THEIR OWN UNIQUE PERSPECTIV AND ARTICULATE THE WAY PERHAPS THAT THEY N AT THIS MOMENT. MAYBE WILL BE THE BEGNG OF JT ARTICULATG AS A LOVE STORY AS OPPOSED TO BEG SE-SPECIFIC. BUT I ALSO THK ’S IMPORTANT TO CELEBRATE FOR WHAT IS OM EVERY PERSPECTIVE. MAYBE WILL START A DIALOGUE AT A TIME WHEN WE SHOULD BE TALKG ABOUT .”STUHLBARG IS BY NO MEANS RISTANT TO TALKG ABOUT PLEX SUBJECT MATTERS. AS WE WROTE LAST WEEK, HE WAS DIPLOMATIC AND GRAC WHILE DISCSG THE NCELLATN OF GORE, NETFLIX’S GORE VIDAL BPIC WHICH STUHLBARG PORTRAYED VIDAL’S LONGTIME LOVER, THE WAKE OF ALLEGATNS OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT MA AGAST S STAR, KEV SPACEY. BUT HE DO BEE VISIBLY MORE ANIMATED WHEN WE DISCS THE MECHANICS OF MAKG CALL ME BY YOUR NAME, NFIRMG SPICNS THAT THIS IS AN ACTOR MORE PASSNATE ABOUT “THE CRAFT” THAN THE NOISE THAT SURROUNDS .WE TALK ABOUT WHETHER HE HAD ANY IA THERE WOULD BE SUCH AN TENSE REACTN TO HIS MONOLOGUE. “I DIDN’T KNOW,” HE SAYS. “MY AGENT WARNED ME. SHE SAID THERE’S A SPEECH AT THE END OF THIS THAT H HER HARD. SHE SAID, ‘WA, YOU’LL SEE.’”WE TALK ABOUT GRAPPLG WH HOW TO EVEN APPROACH LIVERG A MONOLOGUE AS MONUMENTAL AS THIS ONE. IT HELPED THAT THE FILM WAS SHOT CHRONOLOGILLY, HE SAYS, AND THAT BY THAT POT HE HAD GROWN CLOSE TO CHALAMET AND GUADAGNO. PL, THERE WERE SCEN THAT WERE SHOT TAILG MORE OF MR. PERLMAN’S RELATNSHIP WH HIS WIFE AND WH HIS SON THAT DIDN’T MAKE THE FILM’S FAL CUT. “I WAS READY TO LET BE WHAT WAS GOG TO BE,” HE SAYS ABOUT THE PERFORMG THE MONOLOGUE.WE TALK ABOUT THE MOOD ON SET THE DAY THE SPEECH WAS FILMED. “INTIMATE,” HE SAYS, WH A LONG PSE. “IN THE BT WAY.”BUT EVEN THOUGH, AT LEAST TO THIS REPORTER, HE ME OFF AS RATHER SHY AND CERTALY HUMBLE WHILE DISCSG HIS PERFORMANCE AND S IMPACT, HE WAS STILL MOST ELOQUENT WHEN DISCSG JT THAT. EVEN IF, ONCE AGA, HE IS REFUL ABOUT CHOOSG THOSE WORDS.“TO BIRTH A PROJECT THAT CELEBRAT TOLERANCE—NOT TOLERANCE, FIVE ME—THAT CELEBRAT PASSN AND TENRNS, I’M ALL FOR THAT,” HE SAYS. “IT’S A NEED THG, I THK, TODAY THE STORI THAT WE SHARE WH EACH OTHER. WE ULD ALL DO A WHOLE LOT OF GOOD BY CELEBRATG AND SHARG STORI OF CLOSENS AND TIMACY AND KDNS [MORE] THAN NECSARILY JT SHOOTG THGS AND BLOWG THGS UP.” KEV FALLON
But the origal book’s thor André Aciman has clarified a new terview wh GQ that he never tend Samuel to read as gay. “So when he spls wh his wife, he’s not spltg bee he has homosexual tennci, but simply bee somethg mt have gone wrong their marriage. Dner wh a gay uple visg om Chigo.
In Call Me by Your Name, was El's father (Profsor Perlman) a closeted gay man?
So when he spls wh his wife, he's not spltg bee he has homosexual tennci, but simply bee somethg mt have gone wrong their marriage.