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The Sexiest Risk-Taker? Armie Hammer, White Masculinity and

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On their shared appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show back in 2017, actors Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet sat down with DeGeneres to discuss their performances as Oliver (Hammer) and Elio (Chalamet) in Call Me By Your Name (Luca Guadagnino, 2017). In the interview, both Hammer and Chalamet talk candidly with DeGeneres about their preparation and execution of the roles and the multiple “make out” scenes they had, directed by Luca Guadagnino. DeGeneres, an openly lesbian host of her self-titled talk show, respected Hammer and Chalamet for presenting gay characters and a queer romance in a genuine and sensitive light, even though both are heterosexual males in real-life. However, at the end of the interview, DeGeneres cheekily embarrasses Hammer in front of Chalamet and her studio audience with a feature story in People with the magazine's claim of Hammer being the “Sexiest Man Alive.” While this is not an uncommon labeling of celebrity in US popular culture broadly put, Hammer's co-star Chalamet's response to the photograph and feature story in People was: “I knew he was sexy and took risks but I didn't know if he was the sexiest risk-taker.” As such, repositioning the meaning of Hammer's performance as Oliver in terms of risk aids in a more balanced understanding of Hammer's star power in Call Me By Your Name as both reference and refracting point.

Keywords: 8 ; film acting ; film performance ; Hollywood ; independent cinema ; masculinity ; scandal ; sexuality ; stardom ; white

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The Sexiest Risk-Taker? Armie Hammer, White Masculinity and Call Me by Your Name
Intellect , 270 (2024); https://bibliotheek.ehb.be:2102/10.1386/9781789389425_15
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