Dakota Johnson makes a joke on Armie Hammer’s claims of cannibalism

• Dakota Johnson brought jokes about Armie Hammer to the Sundance Film Festival 2023.
• She gave filmmaker Luca Guadagnino the International Icon Award.
• Back in 2021, Johnson discussed some of her former male co-stars who had been accused of severe crimes.

Dakota Johnson brought jokes about Armie Hammer to the Sundance Film Festival 2023. At A Taste of Sundance, the festival’s opening night presentation, Johnson, 33, was the first speaker. She gave filmmaker Luca Guadagnino the International Icon Award at an event sponsored by IMDbPro.

The actress, who collaborated with Guadagnino on the 2018 film Suspiria, made light of charges that Hammer sent sexually explicit messages depicting desires of cannibalism (which he has denied) as she discussed their 2017 Sundance premiere Call Me by Your Name.

“Luca had asked me to play the role of the peach but our schedules conflicted,” she told an audience, per The Hollywood Reporter. “Thank God, though, because then I would’ve been another woman that Armie Hammer tried to eat.” (Hammer’s character, Oliver, bites into a peach in one memorable scene from the drama.)

Luca hasn’t ceased taking us to interesting places in the five years after [Call Me By Your Name] opened here, Johnson said at the occasion in reference to the director’s most recent movie, Bones and All. She then remarked, “Who knew cannibalism was so popular,” according to THR.

In the documentary series House of Hammer, it is mentioned that Hammer, 36, has been accused by ex-girlfriends of harboring thoughts of cannibalism.

In an interview with Deadline in August, director Guadagnino claimed the reaction to Bones and All, which stars Timothée Chalamet and Michael Stuhlbarg, two actors who also starred in Hammer’s Call Me by Your Name and deals with cannibalism, “didn’t dawn on me” until after he announced the film.

Bones and All “had been in development for a number of years before” it was presented to the director in 2020, according to the director, who also stated in the interview that he was interested in making the film because he “responded immediately to these characters who are disenfranchised and living on the edge of society.”

Guadagnino stated, “Any link with anything else exists exclusively in the world of social media, with which I do not engage. The nexus between our desire to make this movie and this kind of digital muckraking is nonexistent, and it should be dismissed with a shrug.

He continued, “I would rather talk about what the movie has to say than things that don’t have anything to do with it.

Guadagnino continued, “Women have historically been put in a lesser position by patriarchal entitlement, and it’s important for that injustice to be addressed in a constructive manner so that it brings about real change. It’s a travesty towards the fundamental need for new attitudes to the ways in which we work together and deal with one another.”

The idea that this deeply essential fight for equality may be misdirected in this way greatly bothers me, he said. “The muckraking of social media doesn’t address anything constructive,” he added. “With this muckraking, we mustn’t take away from that most vital thing.”

Back in 2021, Johnson discussed some of her former male co-stars who had been accused of severe crimes, including Hammer, who had starred alongside her in the 2010 film The Social Network.

“None of those people ever directly exposed me to that. I loved working with them, and I’m sorry to hear about the passing of such talented people. I feel bad for those who might not get care in time and who need it, she said at the time, according to THR. “I’m sorry for anyone who was hurt or harmed. Simply said, it’s quite sad. I think that people are capable of transformation. I want to believe in the capacity of a human being to grow, change, and serve others. I believe there has been a significant overcorrection. However, I think there is a method for the pendulum to swing back toward the center. But cancel culture is definitely depressing. I abhor that term.”

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