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Contents:
- WHY LU GUADAGNO DIDN’T INCLU GAY ACTORS OR EXPLIC SEX SCEN ‘CALL ME BY YOUR NAME’ (Q&A)
- LU GUADAGNO, A GAY MAN IN A LIVG RELATNSHIP! WHO IS HIS PARTNER?
- HOW GAY IS PIXAR’S LU?
- IS LU PIXAR’S FIRST GAY MOVIE? MAYBE
- LU GUADAGNO, SETH ROGEN SET FOR SURPRISE TEAM UP WH STTY BOWERS GAY HTLER FILM
- REVIEW: LU GUADAGNO’S GAY LOVE STORY ‘CALL ME BY YOUR NAME’ IS A NEW G-OF-AGE CLASSIC
- DANIEL CRAIG SET TO PLAY GAY CHARACTER LU GUADAGNO’S ‘QUEER’ AS ACTOR DPERATELY WANTS TO LEAVE JAM BOND IMAGE BEHD
WHY LU GUADAGNO DIDN’T INCLU GAY ACTORS OR EXPLIC SEX SCEN ‘CALL ME BY YOUR NAME’ (Q&A)
Guadagno spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about stg Armie Hammer and Timothee Chalamet over openly gay actors, leavg out explic sex scen and explorg the horror genre his next film, a remake of Dar Argento’s giallo classic Spiria. Why did you st Hammer and Chalamet over openly gay actors? Lu Guadagno, A Gay Man In A Livg Relatnship!
Echoed most the entertament world, Lu Guadagno has always been open to his gay sexual orientatn but not about his relatnships. The highly acclaimed director only brought the gay-themed movie, “Call Me By Your Name” but not his gay partner. However, all that was up until now bee is disvered that the director, Lu, fact, has a gay partner his si.
Lu gave an terview wh the NY Tim reporter, Dana Thomas back on Augt 1, 2016, where Lu gave a glimpse of his is a relatnship wh his gay partner for seven years and is currently livg his apartment loted 17th century palazzo outsi of Milan.
LU GUADAGNO, A GAY MAN IN A LIVG RELATNSHIP! WHO IS HIS PARTNER?
However, nnot be led out that Lu, who is openly a gay man, might be secretly married to his partner, termg him as his hband rather than his wife!
The tert veloped signifintly that led Lu to his directorial but through the film “The Protagonists” (1999), which was prented at the Venice Film the movi he directed his reer, Lu is bt known for the gay-themed movie, “Call Me by Your Name” that won the Bt Internatnal Feature Film 's works earned him var awards and aclas as well, which clu Gotham Inpennt Film Award for Bt Feature Film and BIFF Award for Bt Feature Film. As for the cricisms agast stg straight actors such as Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer gay rol, Guadagno rejected the ia that he should project sexualy onto his actors.
HOW GAY IS PIXAR’S LU?
I nnot st a gay man to play Oliver.
I have to st Oliver to play Oliver bee the inti of gay men are as multiple as the flowers the realm of earth. So, there is not a gay inty. One person who is gay is pletely different to another person who is gay.
Many of his films have alt wh the downright exquise – fashn, fe cuise, operatic grand passn (his 2009 ternatnal breakthrough I Am Love), the burgeong of gay romance amid bulic splendour (Call Me By Your Name).
IS LU PIXAR’S FIRST GAY MOVIE? MAYBE
” Not surprisgly, he not, “every one of my characters is an outst” is so much a creature of cema that, as a gay man, he has said he only dat film-makers; for a , he was a uple wh director Ferdando Co Filomaro, who also worked on some of Guadagno’s projects. Guadagno is bt known as the director of gay romance Call Me By Your Name, which racked up a handful of Osr nomatns and troduced the filmmaker to a wir dience. When director Enri Casarosa says he didn’t tend to make Lu a gay romance, I believe him.
OK, but isn’t still a ltle b gay? Still, there have been so many siar discsns about queer inty Disney movi that you n almost predict the disurse ahead of time: “They’re gay! ” “But why do they have to be gay?
” “But why n’t they be gay? For both live-actn and animated movi, the stud has overhyped what have bee known as “exclively gay moments, ” ty morsels of reprentatn that are eher so subtle you hardly notice them (a kiss between two women the background of a Star Wars movie) or so plot-irrelevant that they n be easily chopped or overlooked by ternatnal censors (here’s lookg at you, Endgame’s unnamed Grievg Man).
LU GUADAGNO, SETH ROGEN SET FOR SURPRISE TEAM UP WH STTY BOWERS GAY HTLER FILM
Meanwhile, while Disney has ngratulated self and claimed to blaze new trails, plenty of other animatn studs have been ahead of them: Laika’s ParaNorman, for example, featured an openly gay character way back 2012. Ironilly, the Disney movie that gave the term “exclively gay moment” the first place took a different tack: The live-actn Bety and the Beast’s LeFou is more the spir of the stud’s long-standg tradn of strongly queer-d, if not explicly gay, villas.
REVIEW: LU GUADAGNO’S GAY LOVE STORY ‘CALL ME BY YOUR NAME’ IS A NEW G-OF-AGE CLASSIC
Fans have sce picked up on homoerotic unrton Raya and the Last Dragon and the live-actn Mulan, but the movi rema rabow Rorschach tts, wh dienc havg to read between the l or project their own meangs to fd queer reprentatn. How gay is ? Whatever the director’s stated tent, the answer seems to be: as gay as you want to be.
That outle holds an obv potential for queer allegory, and ed many Pixar fans trackg the film’s velopment quickly labeled Lu as the stud’s “gay movie”—a g-out story to be placed on Pixar’s mantle alongsi s medatns on grief, artistic exprsn, lonels, Ayn Rand-ian objectivism, and parentg. ” That suggts a limed unrstandg of gay growg up, particularly of when our feelgs of affectn and special closens and difference n first velop. That character, played tartly but briefly by John McCrea, is slightly ls of a scrap than the embarrassgly ballyhooed “exclively gay moment” 2017’s Bety and the Beast—but Artie still barely registered amid Cella’s cynil clamor.
Last year, Disney punted Love, Victor—a seri spoff of the feature film Love, Simon, the first stud film about a gay kid g out—om Disney+ to Hulu, clarg the young adult show a better f for that more grownup streamg service.
DANIEL CRAIG SET TO PLAY GAY CHARACTER LU GUADAGNO’S ‘QUEER’ AS ACTOR DPERATELY WANTS TO LEAVE JAM BOND IMAGE BEHD
Greg Gayne/HuluThe first season of Love, Victor very much felt like a show tend for Disney+ that somehow wound up alongsi Handmaid’s Tale. Love, Victor season two admirably exam life post-g out, as Victor (Michael Cimo) navigat his nascent relatnship wh barista Benji (Gee Sear) and tri to get his mother, Isabel (Ana Ortiz, queen of playg TV moms of gay kids), to fully accept his inty. Victor and Benji grapple wh tra-gay nflicts jt as much as they do wh the wary nsiratns of the straight world.
Lu Guadagno, the mastermd behd ’80s gay love story Call Me by Your Name, is set to make another perd heartbreaker. The movie follows the late Stty Bowers, a bisexual World War II veteran who fought at the Battle of Iwo Jima and later beme a legendary htler and datg liaison for gay Hollywood stars.
Bowers would arrange meetups om a gas statn he ran near movie and TV studs, beg a rare safe haven for gay people showbiz. Siar to the documentary, Searchlight’s feature will tell the te story of Stty Bowers, a World War II veteran who beme a notor gay male htler Hollywood startg the 1940s and endg the 1980s durg the early days of the AIDS epimic. Guadagno lgers on blurred bari—straight and gay, Black and whe, adolcence and adulthood, love and hate.