André Aciman said he is ‘exceptnally pleased’ he eventually chose to wre the two leads as gay
Contents:
- ANDRé ACIMAN ON THE PARALLELS BETWEEN JEWS AND GAYS, AND HIS 'CALL ME BY YOUR NAME' SEQUEL
- WHY DO GAYS KEEP FALLG FOR CALL ME BY YOUR NAME?
- MY BOOK IS MORE THAN A STORY OF GAY ROMANCE, SAYS ANDRE ACIMAN AT JLF
- ANDRé ACIMAN SAYS PEOPLE WHO DISCS STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAYG GAY ROL HAVE ‘SMALL MDS’
ANDRé ACIMAN ON THE PARALLELS BETWEEN JEWS AND GAYS, AND HIS 'CALL ME BY YOUR NAME' SEQUEL
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 andre aciman gay *
“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.
WHY DO GAYS KEEP FALLG FOR CALL ME BY YOUR NAME?
* is andre aciman gay *
25 books that should have never been ma to filmsShow all 26The thor also mented on the bate Hollywood about whether straight actors should play gay rol. “I didn’t want to lve to the faiar trop of vlence agast gay people, ” says Aciman.
” Aciman is keen to emphasise the “dly”, given that a gay relatnship is by no means unual.
” There’s a perpetual argument Hollywood about whether straight actors should play gay rol bee tak opportuni away om LGBT+ actors, who are unrreprented on screen. André Aciman’s Call Me by Your Name has twice been hailed as a morn gay classic: 2007, when the novel, about an unlikely summer romance between two young men Italy, h bookstor, and this month, as the languoro film adaptatn hs theaters.
MY BOOK IS MORE THAN A STORY OF GAY ROMANCE, SAYS ANDRE ACIMAN AT JLF
Still, the fact remas that gay men adore this story about two young scholars, El (Timothée Chalamet) and Oliver (Armie Hammer), who embrace unr the roof of El’s tellectual-bohemian fay for a handful of weeks.
ANDRé ACIMAN SAYS PEOPLE WHO DISCS STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAYG GAY ROL HAVE ‘SMALL MDS’
Why has Call Me by Your Name attaed such an inic “gay” stat when is anythg but?
When s ma characters seem almost aggrsively isolated om gay culture or polics?
When s prec protagonist has to be remd that ’s gche to make fun of people who are openly gay? Here’s one theory: Perhaps we gay boys have fallen for this ungay romance bee ’s so straight—and if we gays love anythg, ’s chasg after straight guys. The book was penned by a straight thor who says that he has never had a gay relatnship his life, and tells the story of two apparently heteroflexible but largely hetero-leang men who seem to experiment wh same-sex sex only furtively their liv.