The Call Me By Your Name Long Take Was Actually Armie Hammer S Idea

By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 9, 2018 6:30 am EST

“The book is so genuine, so accomplished and well written,” Chalamet said, “and I felt like that one scene would be a barometer for whether we would pull it off or not.”

It turns out that Guadagnino struggled with how to frame that scene for those very reasons as well. But Hammer suggested that the sequence be filmed in one long take, which all three men agreed made the moment feel more honest:

Styles added that the long take made the moment feel “much more real,” to which Chalamet replied, “I think so, you might scare someone away if you went too big.”

“On the day, Luca Guadagnino didn’t quite know how he wanted to shoot it, and it was actually Armie Hammer who had the idea to do it in one take and in a wide shot. It took away the whole cringey Hollywood feeling. If you mute the movie you can’t tell it’s somebody telling somebody else that they are in love with them.”