First love and Americana road trip for TaylorRussell and RealChalamet in BonesAndAllFilm
VENICE, Italy -- It is early afternoon in late August at the Belmond Hotel Cipriani and Luca Guadagnino has just returned from the Palazzo del Cinema at the Venice Film Festival to do a tech check for his new film"Bones and All" the day before the world premiere. It was the first time he'd seen it projected on a massive screen and he is buzzing with excitement about the film, an American odyssey about young cannibals in love, and, in particular, his star Taylor Russell.
There would have to be some gore, though, and Guadagnino turned to his longtime collaborator Fernanda Pérez, a makeup artist he's worked with since his first film,"The Protagonists," from 1999, to figure out the bodies and blood. These characters, he said, were not Hannibal Lecter. They were not civilized intellectuals"milking on their own perversities and brutalities." Their condition, he said, is"unavoidable and feral and terminal. They're like animals.
They'd consulted with a pathologist who told them how difficult and time consuming it would be to bite and chew human flesh, and the actors took that and just kind of went for it. By the time Chalamet arrived, Russell and Mark Rylance, who plays another cannibal, had already filmed some of their scenes and he got a visceral sense of just how committed they were.
"I hope this movie comes across as a very immersive journey into the landscape of America instead of being a movie about it," he said."I'm a little boringly classicist. I like the idea that when you go and explore a place, you do so by not imposing your gaze upon it."
Chalamet was also able to steer the direction of his character, Lee, in a more profound way than he's experienced in most of his roles, where he strictly follows the text. In the book, Lee is a bit more of a jock and an alpha male"protector" to Maren. That version, he felt, wasn't right for him. Instead, he saw Lee as fragile and possessing a unique style that blended both male and female styles, like a cropped cardigan with pearl buttons.
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