M: Hi, my name is Michael Stuhlbarg. I played Professor Perlman in this film.
You're about to watch Call Me by Your Name and
I'm here with-
T: Timothée Chalamet and I play Elio Perlman.
T: Frenesi is Luca's production company.
M: Mhmm
M: I think both of us have seen the film a
number of times, at this point, and just
seeing the credits come up,
honestly it's- there's so many people
involved in the making of this film. 
T: So many tax credits, so many short cuts made to make
about three dollars work.
M: It looks so official.
To all the font and all the little
insignias- and there's the music.
T: Now this font that he uses throughout this
opening credits sequence,
I think Luca was walking in Milan and
past a storefront and that he liked the
writing on and went inside and this
person had never done font
outside of a, you know, window front setting.
M: You're kidding, that's fantastic.
T: That is funny because if you see the Sony International posters and everything they were doing to market the
film sometimes the title in another
language is different and they've hired
somebody to imitate this font 
M: Oh, how funny.
T: You can tell it's very slightly off.
M: It's terrific. But that says so much about
Luca. He sees something he loves, he leaps
at it and just says, "We want that, let's
use this, let's use that".
I was looking over my notes before we got started here
and I was looking at how his touch has
has influenced every aspect of the film.
The words that I was meant to say or the
the scenes, whatever they were about,
he had an impact on them and they became
alive in a different way on the days
that we did them. There's James Ivory's
name. You got a chance to meet James,
didn't you?
T: I spent a week with James Upstate when I was 19 and when it looked like he was still gonna be the
director of the project. And we watched
Maurice in his screening room
my sergeant please love that Luka saved
the big beautiful statue name and
accredits isn't this was day one of the
shoot because very luckily we got to
shoot chronologically or mostly
chronologically and it just picks up
right in the middle of whatever you're
doing news I love her State your first
scene for everything first everything we
shot
we stayed in crema while we were there
and shot in Moscow so know where this
villa was been a 20-minute drive away
it's another instance in which luca's
camera was in a place where it was a
surprise and I don't think that camera
was out the window here even though
that's the point of view I think they
set it up on the sort of balcony we see
later in the film that little patio
outside
mm-hmm the clothes so of Aachen and
Juliet did such a good job Julia appear
Asante Izod shirts all over the place
and that shirt is the shirt of our
producer Momo she's married to in fact
80% of my wardrobe is that that's
America's are in denim and I love that
it doesn't punch in here make something
big of the first moment thanks guys me
Luca made a point early on of all of us
playing this with great lightness and
fun as if it was an idyllic time I love
the way you've loaded smooth that could
that have been planned no I love this Oh
welcome to another place did you have
anything to do with the things that were
put on the wall here no that would have
been Samuel our production designer
wonderful and such an amazing job yeah I
thought that was you off to the corner
heavy
insisted on a picture of myself yeah
it's thinking maybe that's a rock band
the Timmy's part I love how our me lies
down and there's that shirt
he has lettin you end up with later on
in this dialogue straight from the book
I'm pretty sure hmm I love the lightness
of you there just how it just comes in
nothing lingers it's just my moment and
it's gone just like this whole movie
moments and then they're gone and that's
beautiful too glad we got to see you
doing a little bit of that this would
have been the first day I think we shot
this as well and then we can see that
the weather was already being slightly
for unforgiving si Vonda she looks like
she's a part of the house extraordinary
one with it yeah I think I was doing
when I did this scene I realized just
because the shot lingers for so long as
I enter the bedroom
drop the book I think I realized for the
first time oh wow there's gonna be the
permission and the ability to just be in
so many scenes of this movie and just
exist and not really worry about moving
it forward expositionally but just being
on wonderful thing that's great lesson
Hank I discovered that during the course
of this as well
for dinner yeah do you remember any
thoughts you had about what you were
thinking about your first impressions of
each other at this time I I remember and
enough was my actor mind or my Elio mind
but just not wanting to tip anything too
soon and certainly the way it's mapped
out and Andre osomons novel and the
source material Elia was very much at
first not put off but his homeostasis
has been disturbed by the confidence of
Oliver and and how he just drapes his
body over my room without any shoes
without any sort of care or thought that
it's my room there are these lovely
moments throughout and I love the way he
runs his hand I'm not crazy and it's odd
as well because I remember things
showing up on set that hadn't been there
before you know I have such as
tapestries like that or all of a sudden
something new would be there you have
these microscopic moments of
introspection that I love about a Leo
Wow Wow look at that shine not beautiful
yeah you see something new every time
Michael you would infuse these scenes
with such a levity that was exactly what
Luca want didn't mean that that's the
truth of these situations of these
summer breakfasts how delightful to wake
up every morning and have that kind of
energy around you and lightness how
delightful as an actor where the
prescription is always to behave
naturally within the given set of
circumstances and the given set of
circumstances here is to have a
breakfast beautiful breakfast
tap on your egg tap on your head have
some peach have some juice I have some
espresso I take him tomorrow yet I think
they're closed for summer vacation you
know a lot of people have seen the film
when they referenced the fact that
Oliver gets a local bank account as
something that feels very true to a
summer to a summer staying and just
staying foreign place palooka saying
that those newspapers as well had news
of the day he was very specific about
what he wanted on the outside so that
there were big glimpses of the period
here and there and then the news being
reported isn't the most optimistic of
news rather the if there's any sort of
somber through-line the movie it being
the the news front pages right
you know when you have a number of shots
like these as a young actor when the
prescriptions are quite simple just to
ride around the corner it helps
tremendously when it comes time to do
the larger or more dramatic scenes
because you just find a sense of a
rhythm and flow oh it's just not there
when every scene is some sort of
expositional I love that about marker
what this film does it lets you breathe
this was the town centre of quema where
we were shooting and living and this is
the real town centre and for the for the
people that live in the city all the
time and my apartment would have been
right above Oliver in this city where I
was staying throughout the film besides
my family you're probably the only other
jew to set foot in this town I'm from a
small town in New England I know what
it's like to be the odd you out so what
do you do around here
read books transcribed music swim at the
river is a Leo trying to make any kind
of impression on our heads it's so much
it's fascinating watching the scene
because it's it's and I think it's the
whale out of this relationship
and the way it plays out the first half
of this movies it's very much uh
a game of masks and a nelio just being
stunned at the way this brash American
works and very attracted to it but but I
don't think he's realized it yet
I love the precocious music behind it
this right right these are the
continuation of these archaeology
disease these are yet those archaeology
distance okay
like I can taste that I can take I can
taste it as well and the music so Matt
if this music could have been playing
all of our heads as we shot this scene
it's like the words algebra alchemy
alcohol I remember the empty wait in the
room and they would say cut and there
been such life infused before and the
apricot juice being brought in all the
synonyms
it's amazing that today in Israel in
many Arab countries the fruits referred
to by it totally differently that room
had a life of its own
it felt like it was ancient history into
it really didn't have to do any work
pretending to be anything Greek words
however in the case of apricot it's a
little bit more of a complicated journey
ah how so well here the Greek actually
takes over from the Latin Latin word
being played kokum or they call queer
day so it's a pre cook or prewriting as
you know had to be precocious or
premature and the Byzantines to go on
then I love mo and you can't tell if
it's total security on the part of mr.
Pro man's or if he has been encroached
upon a little bit I love the looks
between you guys miss Curcio followed
you 101 flying colors I love that moment
Michael he does this every year that's
something we all came upon that was
something we all came upon as he wanted
to say it but no it's it was a something
that Luke I think sort of suggested this
as a test that he does to every student
every year that was not in the text
before it was wonderful all right now we
are wearing sunglasses in the scene and
I think the funny thing on set that day
was that everybody who was wearing as I
said Italian cruise look about ten times
cooler than there he
I love this too this is sort of the
boldness that Oliver all of a sudden we
haven't seen this yet but he's somehow
or other been in this establishment
before he's hung out with these guys
he knows all their names he's a friend
and poker with them that have probably
never given any or the time of day I
don't know if they lose ever seen this
place before
it just seems like they've been there
forever they're still there now it was
so helpful I don't know why this was the
case but all the background actors in
this film that never played anything
towards the camera there was no
awareness so they get wonderful so
helpful yeah
well this seems just so evocative at
that time there's a freeness of you know
the late seventies early eighties and
there was still an essence of the 70s
vibe and everything the beginning of
Izod shirts and a new kind of I don't
know perhaps money to culture coming in
well these people look like they've all
hang out together this moment's very
very specific I mean that's straight out
the book and there's to be a moment of
Attraction and then a moment of
deference I had a lot of anxiety about
this scene because in the book it's from
the book it's a number of pages that
describe one moment yeah come here for a
minute
I love the dominance of having one's
girlfriend come over and we go walk
swing here it feels a little
overshadowed a little confused
Omer Lucca telling me to keep the props
in my hand here and never put them down
that's why I ran away I said I'm
watching it now I get it because it adds
to the total confusions of the church
tremendous effort and making it seem
like those rocks on the ground were in
painful to defeat it worked
this is so evocative of of young men it
seems like maybe paleo was just
beginning to shave a little bit I'm a
big razor he's using we had played
soccer the whole soccer event yeah hey
cut yeah that's right Luca head
apparently the first cut of this film
was four hours and 15 minutes
this is also from the book and we
shouted the day before and felt like we
got it
but then the light was off so we had to
go back and shoot this Oh funny later
meanwhile we'll have to put up with him
for six long weeks
I think he's shy don't go over like him
what if I grow to hate him Americus are
added so much to this film just by the
sheer nature of her being and her
fluency in so many languages and a sense
of humor and the sort of combination of
the two of us producing someone like a
Leo this is hysterical all the 80s
commercial or whatever show that is
that's Carlo next to me on the couch is
one of Lucas close friends and the
producer of a number of his projects
that came on diva fifteen on Eva look
what you got vamos gets on our with
results
I like the idea that Elio keeps himself
in the room even though he's a total
curmudgeon and Missy D practice this
stuff this was this was a number this is
one of the songs that and worked with
Roberto sulci on for from one that half
you played all the way through this
everything is you isn't it
yep that's amazing did you feel a sense
that anything you did under these
circumstances was right did you ever
feel like you know what is this moment
about or did you just come in and sort
of do it no in fact I mean I almost and
there's a script somewhere that had
physical beats plotted out but that
would have been more there's a version
that film that's artificial and actor
Iman based in the control room and
there's a ton of spontaneous stuff that
didn't make it into the movie because he
would have been terrible but how great
it's there yeah and then how great to
have a number of takes and director you
know is not going to expose you for the
fraud your ball what is that in so many
flies I thought you could see the fly in
this scene it just ran by okay okay just
look at me it's funny because there's an
idea as an actor that the sexual
prescription or undertones many of these
scenes would maybe put you in your head
but I know something like this kind of
scene is just the intimacy me to feel
more honest or natural no not with
everyone else down by the river yeah me
too
maybe the same one what are you and I go
swimming right now yeah come on let's go
do you have to go right now I'll go get
changed
okay you found this Bakken very
naturally how would a young man
genuinely hide his erection
embarrassment of that suggests there's
this uneasiness and he sounds amazing
our cinematographer cyan boo Mukti prom
he hadn't worked on malukas partners
film and this was his first film with
Luca a glasses the risky business class
a risky business class and this water
was freezing and they built that
fountain area from scratch it was not
there before but they made it look like
it had been there forever I think
initially in the there was a swimming
pool in the script or the and the novel
right I have this instead
sir private no gonna tell me I'm not
gonna tell you he's not gonna tell me
what he's thinking about physical hang
out with your mom found this free
naturally to I think our me just added
that line about hanging out with my mom
and I said to Luca I think I should go
running over and split them up I love
that you push him here yes get out of
the way all of a sudden there's a body
language between you two that didn't
exist before and that might be the first
moment in the film that there's a real
physical interplay so this is about a
three-second insert of me playing the
guitar but this is something I spent a
month and a half
learning with Nicholas and yet oh
there's a guitar player in Kramer
play together look at the Flies and I
think I love a Leo Z reference doing
things on his own terms
and your response in a ad that you
brought to all this
I always laugh at this scene because you
know within the proscription of the
story alia was riffing these pieces or
it's an improv of sorts and the truth
for the actor was again that I was
sitting in a piano studio for a month
and a half before shooting a scene
really just trying to get something half
of wouldn't snow to what it's described
in the novel but you did I said sort of
the beauty of what we get to do is throw
ourselves into the practice of something
and then throw it off on the day and
we're doing it if we can please and we
ruined the the groundout site was so hot
because of the Sun and I'm barefoot in
the scene and before it takes at me
standing on Army's feet and they'd say
action I'd say thanks for letting me
stand on your feet brother let's go do
this see I love a little rock and roll
that comes on your face yeah why I just
played it the way Bru zone he would have
played it if he'd altered lists version
and what is wrong with box the way Bach
would have played Bach never wrote it
for the guitar in fact right even sure
box were asked
this young buck Luke he told me to
swivel around at the end of this and you
didn't oh the camera just seems to find
you there in the midst of something
that door gets to where I know it Aaron
Fike
this is wonderful too because I wondered
how this was going to be done on a
beautiful way to sort of and I felt good
that was actually my right hand but I
know that he did a number of takes of
the fan to try to get that there was a
whole scene a whole text that was
written for the scene that army and I
have here and I was so perplexed on the
day because the camera was going to be
so far away no sort of it's just another
texture in the story which I absolutely
loved and then there's this there was
great conscientiousness to get that fish
back in the water on the day right right
away and right after the take I love
that scene because there's it that is it
is unabashed non cynical filmmaking is
just a beautiful shot of a fish and a
boy reacting there's the teamwork
carrying it into the kitchen I love that
it's like as if they've been there for
years
I'm aloof have so you lose camera
lingers on the world
elio hmm sleeping and was listen to this
drivel tell me what you think
wait what
for the early Greeks Heidegger contends
this underlying hiddenness is
constricted teaches I loved walking and
jumping around these things are there
like the door you alluded to earlier or
everything in this and this in this
villa was so specific okay however that
is some kind of feather or in the air
it's a pollen or something has been
blowing around that was all just there
might be the kindest thing anybody's
said to me and months kind yep armies
timing so get in that scene if you miss
might be right my favorite scene in the
film
with such openness and Esther's love
it's yes it's unabashed there isn't any
a strain of maliciousness so sincere and
straightforward throughout his beautiful
performance she and Victoire as well
I think these are the first moments of
self-aware percolating attraction mmm
there's so many songs that were written
around that time called lady lady this
this is lady lady lady lady that's and
that I love to change here and that's
our editor voltar for some of that I've
heard her phone deejaying the change in
music is a sense of the new wave coming
in I love the the blurriness that comes
in periodically you'll be watching
something and all of a sudden
everything's out of focus but you don't
care it just makes you want to look
harder
seems so grown-up in one moment in the
next like a kid my shoes and of course
this has been discussed at length
already army is so fantastically
unabashed in the scene and yet it was
his least favorite scene issue in the
film and the one he says he was most
tortured by and the truth is there is in
the song playing as we shot this there
was a click track so there's only a
click click click and that is not
conducive to I don't understand why they
can't just play the music underneath but
he's great I love that I love that whole
number you throw in there I love that
Marcia's picking up on undertones and
their relationship that elio maybe
hasn't even picked up on yet
don't talk have they done this before
you think I know it no I think what
would Lucas I remember Esther was
miserable there is a time and we we
really did have no idea what was
lingering an image to water so it's kind
of mouthing her to catch up either
straight away and then we swim back
she'd get out
I love alias boldness why did he do no
no no it's better to have tried and
failed but all I had to do is find the
courage to reach out in some of the
language I feel good I just Michael I
love you in the sand
yeah a more ignorant parent would have
had him had a more blended or
instinctual reaction the wise parent mr.
Perlman is I would love to thank you can
I come too on the condition you remain
silent I love the allusion to stories of
mr. Perlman getting exposed by Elia from
the minute and then the bike served to
serve this tone of people coming in and
out really without regard love the
simple pink earring that dangles are
running playful it just is so evocative
of the period that color this is a
charming charming scene between the two
of you fishing
anywho what's he feeling at that point
it's exciting to talk to the the lover
of who you're attracted to
there's a certain game in that moment of
jealousy here looks like a couple of
high-school seniors just bringing their
books out of school and making plans
Baddeley sits up front with an
easy-to-navigate moment friendly / -
establishes his autonomy to the region
to the house what the rules are
it's more beautiful than she was last
year I saw her naked on a night swim
once great body trying to get me to like
her what would be the harm in that no
harm just typically like to throw those
things on my own if you don't mind I
learned a little bit of Italian before I
got to Italy but my tutor was from the
south so the bits of Italian that I had
to learn I had to relearn because
there's a difference between the south
from the north what's going on boys
Oliver come sit up front to be my
navigator what to shoot in this region I
think this was the one region we shot in
that was in chronological but this was
maybe one of my favorite moments of this
shoot was getting a drive to when this
had been would this have been in Bergamo
it's called the grotto of Catullus i
remember that about the place of it but
is this in the lake region is it not as
this or is it not
my mic pack falls out here is why I was
dragged my shirt down that's wonderful
at the top of this scene I remember on
the day because the grotto was called
the grotto of katella's I had remembered
an AE Housman poem that I had to say in
a play many years ago called the
invention of love it was a poem by could
tell us so I threw that in there at the
very top of the scene was such a
beautiful day that day and that's an
extraordinary marami and I found that
moment as army picked it up and Lucas
said that's great let's keep it and he
said just say agua we should which means
truce mmm down in 1827 on the way to
Isola de Garda I don't know if you
remember Michael that day we got booted
out to the we got voted out in the
distance first before they got to bring
the camera there was a really lovely
moment we just spent an hour in the
water in that boat just rocking back and
forth an army the Emperor Hadrian had a
pair
this is quite an acting prescription to
be reacting to absolutely nothing this
is our green screen acting in the movie
god I miss I think James ivory and Luca
came up with this two years before the
film's conception because I don't think
this is one of the few bits that's not
in the book I think in the book there
was this event where they go see the
like the murdering of fish or something
I love this too I look just from the
last scenes we shot that day the energy
the scene has is very much but the
energy was upset for some reason are you
going to no no I should stay and do some
work oh come on how about a drink to
celebrate the day yeah I you know it
that's just so army I love how you guys
just toss the bikes away that you've
been doing it forever and ever
that's as wonderful
on the light I never noticed that then
he gets brighter I love these
you know not conventional shots of
bodies and this phone that cyan boo had
set up like a shoulder blade in there
kitchen balcony
what piece is that do you remember
it's so beautiful
cosmic fragments by inactive to us
that's a voiceover track gonna lay down
in midtown Manhattan five one second
river flowing is not that all things are
changing so that we cannot encounter
them twice the love you getting to do
this stuff as an actor too because in
drama school again it's about antagonism
or the conflict of a scene and here the
prescription was simply to be look who's
always encouraging me to run my hand
across the things I was coming across in
the house and I had the field of play
I love the shadow and the light in this
shot how that corridor was my time so
dark and another time so bright playing
possum
as my grandma used something else
completely going
this is another one of those scenes
where it felt like getting the gift of a
minute or two minutes to play on how how
sequence would play out naturally and I
love this too cuz there's maybe there
and we did three versions of this with
the painting soon that are just
different sexual expressions of the same
idea oh I'm the one that made it in its
gonna come up here and I put it on my
head and lean backwards or kinda arch my
back but there's a version I like a lot
to wear maybe ran around the bed for
three minutes alright it's tough to
describe especially literally but the
sheets were all messed up this one is
the most succinct of the takes this is
from the book as well hmm
music of love comes in it seems to be
the theme of what Haley is feeling
inside he hears all over his voice and
he comes alive
in a very specific mark on the ground
there at a head hmm
honest they wouldn't be able to see
Oliver and revealed in the shot I love
that he's that he's hard to to see once
he passes he get a glimpse of him the
music is so evocative of what's going on
inside
I love shooting the scene on you in the
mirror Michael this was such a pleasure
to shoot
apparently there was a lot of rain in
the shooting of this film but I don't
remember it too much I'd remember it as
much either Oh lovely moment that the
purlins get to share together just
reading on the sofa together okay you
get a glimpse into the kind of lives
they've lived for years just curled on
the couch telling stories
and without saying to you Maya
Estevan cynically denied a princess oh I
remember shooting the scene and Mira
running your hand through my hair and
thinking that is exactly what a mother
would do exactly what my mom would do
though she seems not to be entirely
aware of it despite the friendship for
shaft mm-hmm that blossoms between them
that's another moment of Amira she
brought so much this phone yeah
I've just what if there's a joke between
the two of them about this particular
word it was just a color that she threw
in there wonderful to bring up the
subject of his love the one day he asked
the princess point-blank ish Peter boy
how did Mavis versus a no - damn
is it better to speak or to die I'll
never have the courage to ask a question
like that I doubt that
I love that there's no shame from the
guidance Elio draws from his parents
there's nothing embarrassing about it
there's nothing childish my mama's been
reading the 16th century French rule
news she read some of it to my dad and I
the day the lights went out
yeah about the night that doesn't know
whether the speaker died right of course
he knows that more smoke and mirrors
which is on her guard she senses a trap
somewhere
so as you speak
budgies hmm figures he's French I think
he added that today I love that I got to
go to town in a little bit and pick some
things up
oh I can go I'm not doing anything why
don't we go together right now yeah
right now this is of course unless you
have more important business going on
the talking head SERP 2 and the
cassettes
if I put this in your bag that fit
though that's him I fell I was coming
home the other day and I scraped myself
pretty badly and Keith insisted on
applying some sort of witch's brew I
think it helped I don't have that this
scene is ostentatiously about a wound
but it's really about getting his stairs
and his nice body that was a tiny door
you guys navigated that really really
well riding your bikes through it so
this is a scene that we had rehearsed
and decided to do in one shot but Luca
didn't have enough track to do it in one
shot so he put a call into the
production office in Milan and they
agreed to send enough track but that I
was gonna take about two hours to send
so we rehearse the scene maybe six times
we all broke for lunch we all sat in a
cafe not the one in the shot here but
opposite in the square and when he came
time to do it which is what we're
watching here we maybe had an hour to
shoot this and two or three takes I
think this was the second take
no better
at all
now you didn't smoke
I don't it's a world war two huh I know
this is World War one you have to be at
least 80 years old to have known any of
them I've never even heard of the Battle
of Piave battles Piaggio is one of the
most lethal battles in World War one
170,000 people died is there anything
you don't know I know nothing Oliver
again the nightmare as an actor would
have been and do the scene of foot from
army and a bunch of close-ups I don't
know any actor they could have pulled
that off
hmm Winston Lucca gave us the
prescription to treat this monumental
most as a metaphorical barrier between
the two boys here why are you telling me
this
I thought you should know because you
thought I should know because I wanted
you to know because I wanted you to know
because I wanted you to know this
repetition of the line is that in the
text or is that just you loogie had said
as I walked by the Mon you mean you said
repeat it to yourself a number of times
this is all one shot hmm
the Bucks going by in the bus Luca said
in cure knees was to serve as an
interrupter or another another signifier
to break the tension
I love the idea that if you're at a
distance these boys might just be having
a conversation but up close and personal
you know what they're talking about
hmm religion yeah I was always curious
about them
the production design the sealing of
those posters to the side is just
perfect they mixed up all of my pages
are going to retype this whole thing I
love those lines they have nothing to do
with anything should have said anything
just pretend you never did or does that
mean we're on speaking terms but not
really means we can't talk about those
kinds of things okay how do you think a
Leo's so bold here the thrill of getting
to be the younger lover
Oliver is in the position of
responsibility I guess I get to decide
whether to put a seatbelt on or not
hey I'm John already gone if I hit that
car door though it'll ruin the whole
don't just what had been a Leo hitting
the car door I love the movie magic of
this shot and it's a gorgeous gorgeous
road we take off on and they set the
camera right next to a trash processor
off to the left here is a big loud funny
I love that this lingers too and you
want to watch them the entire way
armie overtakes me sorry keep up with
someone that big and fast and strong and
the camera just watches
I don't know if this woman was employed
that day or if or if she was just this
might have literally been her home huh
Jonathan glimpse into the generosity of
the area of a more innocent time
yeah benito mussolini
army's nickname for lucca which is
pretty cool
so one of the few over-the-shoulder
shots in the movie or cyan-blue put the
camera on
very brave to be riding that bike on
such a rocky road his no hands and the
way he pops off that bike this was an
incredible location to shoot it I tried
a petition Luke in the scene to not make
me say the name of the mountainous
region in the north and he said nope
you're saying it this is my spot it's
all my come here to read can't tell you
the number of books I've read here
straight from the book oh my god it's
freezing the Alfea adobea the water
comes straight down some more
I like the way you say things I don't
know why you're always putting yourself
down though so you won't I guess the
idea that Emily was unrelenting then you
went Oliver lets his guard down a little
bit perhaps generously only who jumps in
right away
Demaryius jumping right in face-first
I love that about your entire
performance very difficult for I love
this aspect of it too the playfulness
between you two I love this Oliver and
this shot is almost direct homage to
James ivories Morris these are very
similar shot of the two lovers in a
grass you mean oh I love that the film
doesn't show us or tell us everything
that's going on it allows us to have our
own service dialogue in our mind as to
what we think is going
how much of this was directed and how
much of it was just you guys there's a
take where I don't like his face first
before kiss him but now he plays with
you I know that the most important beat
of this is that Oliver is the one to
step away now and then there's a strong
moment where Elio tries to reignite it
we should write there I know myself okay
and we've been good we haven't done
anything to be ashamed of and that's a
good thing I want to be good okay
am i offending you
just don't
look at my body again under the illusion
it's true at the time Manolis government
these two remarkable theater actors that
Luca knew and wanted in the film they
wanted to touch upon they were
remarkable they just came in and did
this over and over and over again the
minor debilitation then is a nose but
it's really the event of the scene which
is fantastic
this is lovely - this is a little side
look that the house had there's a tiny
little bar area this is where Michael
comes out earlier in the film with the
drain serving some cognac or whiskey
whatever it was this isn't one of the
rare over-the-shoulder shots in the
movie - the camera was on Sambu shoulder
and it continued yes the idea that they
haven't stopped are completely clueless
as to what's good all right for a second
a kitchen table sure is where did this
stuff come from the toe thing this is
from the book is it mmm wonderful how my
Bobby used to do this for us when we
were sick trust me it helps
I used to have one of these used to yeah
how come you never wear it my mother
says we were Jews of discretion well
it's a favorite line from the book and I
guess that works for your mother funny
which what is that it's a line we looped
cuz what I said was - inappropriate
I wondered what that was it goes by so
fast but it was I love this moment as
well he's inside he had a bit of a
nosebleed during lunch he's just resting
don't go anywhere he waits just as long
as he has to wait
No come help me oh I love it was all
about to see my marrow virus think it's
huh
these girls could have chastised me
between takes from being to something
and now we see a Leo with a star
it's a beautiful subtle love the scene I
remember at the top of the film will the
gate telling us to try to find the
comedy where we could memorize probably
nursed a Lea from a baby we sat on that
bench noting the very first day we got
to the villa and very so here's a
picture of him giving us no I remember
that from Amira has a perm in that
picture she had decided to change her
hair afterwards did you say yeah
only thing for a moment when she does
that that she's gonna tuck it back into
your shirt instead or acknowledge it but
it's just unspoken
this music is so evocative in this
moment and I love that Vonda still hard
at work
although her pace here I'm just
realizing now at the end of the day felt
a bit slower and not beautiful I wonder
how long a Leo's been sitting there and
waiting for Oliver
there's a wonderful mistake or not
mistake but act of God I guess here yeah
they said it was a they said the film
came back a little damaged but they they
found it to be a great gift and involved
her Anna and Luca begin her turmoil
whatever's going on in the story I love
that it's still there
if film lets the light in we shot on
film mmm it lets the lighting and
whatever happens becomes imprinted on
the film it's really rare that music can
reflect the inner made her life of
things that's going on in his songs and
this needs a strong beautiful songs that
Sophie on Stevens contributed a week
before filming we all sat down in Lucas
living room and listen to this and
visions of Gideon the other song he said
to be awake would be embarrassing
but you
it's one of the great things about Andre
osomons novel things like pissing in a
toilet that are typically unattractive I
have a weird alluring effect in the mind
music coming in I love that capturing
somebody we don't know what this is and
it's just a moment and we're onto
something else all those magazines and
books those were all specifically put
down on that table everything in the
room nothing was extraneous the heaps of
books the Pearlman's had everywhere
she most yet I hello they haven't been
spending any time together so you forget
what somebody's voice sounds like they
shot picks up in the middle of what we
shot where I'm just coming back but we
did shoot him a bit were I also leave
and
it's the book you know that's okay
I loved that passageway but from the
this is off the tan Piazza the center
that led deeper into one part of the
town where we all stayed if you walk to
the left my apartment would have been
upstairs and this is where this is right
in front of our muse villa right in
front of Army's apartment rather in
luca's villa with you
yester brings such a a great casual
off-the-cuff delivery to everything that
she does it the character is
simultaneously so vulnerable but
powerful too
that's good smells good
it's really fast okay that's okay
how lucky you are to be able to speak a
foreign language there's something about
being an English speaker and watching a
foreign language to just seems oddly to
me somehow more real it's just a
different way to communicate and I love
that she she instigates a different
sexual energy here mmm
that I match and then Marcy just becomes
a little flustered and once I take it a
little bit have you had to do any seems
like these before not like that no no
must have been nerve wrecking mm-hmm
mm-hmm Isis just captures the time in
their lives so beautifully maybe this
was very much supposed to be a first
time yeah instant change that's such a
great camera shot as well but you guys
are so lovely in this was any of that
scripted what was it sighs I'll just
talk to astok that's so great this is
wonderful - this is straight from the
book I got it was it was it story Lucas
genius and working in the voice-over but
this is one of the parts of the book the
obsession well it would have would have
been really hard to translate to film
unless her hands and Lucas I was given a
lot of Professor Ariel dialogue as well
that all got extricated away from the
telling of the story which is so
rightfully so wonderful in the novel but
unnecessary in this telling of the story
Oh Lucas I love that charm Wow
Phil Hitchcockian or something I love
that it only lingers for a moment and
now we're into smiles and do you
remember Michael how specific the timing
had to be in this sequence
yeah and we might have this might've
been the scene we did the most in the
film uh-huh several hundred colors left
of our boxer and the others like him
arrived yesterday from Berlin there was
a whole other scene that was taken out
of this as well about poker playing our
army had been off playing poker the
night before which I had forgotten about
he'll have Oliver is exhausting here mr.
Pearlman's relentless enthusiasm for the
subject at hand
most likely sculpted under the influence
of tracks Italy's greatest got a
cigarette smoking in this film allows
cigarette smoking don't smoke cigarettes
kids know the artist so extraordinarily
beautiful though
god is fun for me to even watch this
moment because it's just so exciting
whenever one other I love that you don't
you need to read it and that we hear
what it is
when a lover there is the tennis ball
back that is a thrilling failing and the
alias pin which we occurs which I love
I'll see you at midnight
muscles affirm look at his stomach for
example not a straight body in these
statues they're all curved sometimes
impossibly curved and so nonchalant
hence they're ageless ambiguity this can
be a description of Oliver
he's trying to provoke me
oh this shot at least something weird I
love it great
don't forget I look at manera confident
also known as Sonny and Cher okay I'd
like you to win that shirt that a
visitor no we debated back and forth
whether it should be Sonny and Cher I
think it that no it's Laurel and Hardy
right I'm not wearing it
hey what time you got it's 2:00 and
lovely complicity barely fits through
that door bran so funny she's amazing
and they're all charmed by Oliver and
they all love him she was stunned and
instantly glad to see lightest him yeah
in the outdoor I love how far he is
already mean he gets back to him there
but this stuff was a lot of fun to shoot
with this Lukey just said good try to go
in and out of the water as much as
possible intertwining not ease
perpetually looking at that watch she's
witnessing the whole thing where do you
guys go here this isn't the Attic the
idea being that what the cove is and
we're not the cove it I love the
playfulness
if army was too lazy to smoke a
cigarette outside while we were shooting
he would just go up to this attic mmm
smoking up there I don't think ever saw
it the whole time over there you smelled
it
oh the attic yeah my father and all the
attic that I weird I love the dust that
emerges from this fantastic I don't care
I remember Lucas speaking about the song
and the radio as well and how specific
he was about what he wanted it to be
that it was unique that that song would
have been played at that time of day hmm
I remember I couldn't get this fucking
watch how great is that I hear you got
adding into another intimate scene mmm
is it any trepidation just sort of
throwing yourself into it you guys seem
to have a great trust between the two of
you yeah and certainly as the you know
my requisite of what the characters are
going through here I'm leading the dance
a little bit so and the only thought
before the take ordering the take is
that Esther is an actress is comfortable
and the thing is crossing any lines that
we'd set out in advance but the
cunnilingus that's performed is very
much true to the novel as well because
the experience they have formatively
isn't intercourse but it's something
like this I'm gonna look at the watch
here again
I love the idea here that they've
already made love but that they cannot
stop going ahead huh me youthful bodies
and exploding with hormones I love her
her messy here it's pretty obvious what
they've been up to and they have to come
over and say hello I think this is known
as the walk of shame
this is Peter Spears one of the
producers of the film you made this film
happen and that's Andre Ellison is the
not the author of the novel so Peters
and pink and Andres in blue this was all
impromptu dialogue he still steals a kid
now what is this that you're pointing
out I think in the idea is that there
was some China that perhaps they had
send as family friends on the table in
the distance okay I love the scene my go
this is fun too no no laughing when I
tell you to play
you'll play you're too old up to accept
people for who they are what's wrong
with them what's wrong with them you
call them Sonny and Cher behind their
back the only person that reflects badly
on is you isn't because they're gay or
because they're ridiculous audience
favorite that line this scene any idea
of playing it more seriously or
dramatically no that would have been
wrong I don't think so I think it was
sort of one of those things I think I
can sense is that professor Perlman gets
such a kick out of a Leo hmm
that is as serious as he wants to be and
as rigorous apparent he chooses to be it
in moments or the absence of rigor
can't help but a door hmm his son's
irreverence and and playfulness but he
has to keep a straight face when he says
things like that I touched my eye to
wipe some sleep away there for a moment
I hope that - definitely he's he's all
about capturing whatever the natural
moment is and I love how the music picks
up here and his army emerges there was
something so surreal even when we're
shooting this scene it felt like uh in a
very warm way but a ceremonial and
goodbye to the boys Virginia - he hand
and and innocence to some capacity I
guess it is that but with although and
here's your watch
don't forget your watch and I always
figured that watch moment was maybe uh
then the most subtle of the moments of
understanding from mr. Perlman
and get a glimpse into the private life
of the Pearlman's how much fun they have
important it is from them too and I know
you bring in people from the outside
world how much joy in life they have
that shot right before this one army
might take up a hundreth of the frame
he's tiny in that shot and he's
everything he could survey most of the
house from that place hmm
and people would gather up there
sometimes
and visions of Gideon's brought in for
the first time
it's almost seems in slow motion
creeping
it's cuz we didn't want you to hear and
this scene was a lot of fun my place in
the book in and in the movie but it's
not clear and that's not it that's a
joint it's not a cigarette
well unfortunately you never punch in
close enough to see that that's okay
okay
okay that's from the book too
it's so funny and so so important except
for the playfulness to still be there
and you guys are just so full of it I
love that random moment that presented
itself and it's another fun as an actor
those are just the greatest of gifts
can't anticipate it can only react I'm
gonna stillness in the hallway when
though those trees aren't moving and the
light's not coming through and this is
another lovely monocoque
what are you doing
let's make you happy
you're not gonna get a nosebleed on
Miriam
we were blocking this out and we were
trying to kiss where I was way above him
but then we mapped out that I would have
to go back to house we started to kiss
you forget as an audience member and the
intimate scenes that you're watching
that there are people all around you
while this is going on beauty of how the
camera just steps away allusion to the
time period and I wouldn't even try to
do it injustice cuz Luke will do it when
he describes it but right I love the way
he talks about the sexuality or or lack
of sexual close ups in this phone and
this is not about that
I love that shot - prior you almost
don't even know what you're looking at
yeah cheers talk at all about the
morning after the idea here we're not
quite there yet there's still a knight
of hell okay sorry I was not envious
that army had to save a title the God
there for me in a while it doesn't
beautify yeah he does it absolutely
beautifully let it be one to butter up
yeah yeah none of that seems at all
heavy-handed so beautifully just simple
and the blue shirt again from remnants
Lou lovemaking anxieties about my father
more than the parents I remember Lukey
telling me to throw that shirt and there
on that mark and thinking was
inconsequential but then you see it
after and then there's that
so we had scripted the dialogue from the
scene almost straight from the book and
it just felt a little heavy-handed and
you knew exactly what this tension that
had to emerge between the lovers was and
then we did a take with Luca we didn't
say anything and this is the one mm-hmm
and it just plays out in a physical
dialogue and as an audience member I
find to be more illuminating leaves more
of the imagination to angry
let's go swimming
I love the bagginess of that shirt that
you're wearing how enormous it seems on
your sweater whatever it is I think Elia
was unknowingly sees the power in the
relationship at this moment briefly is
this in the script this place this
swimming you know it all seems extra but
it's so beautiful I at this point it
certainly wasn't scripted to be an
opposite ends of the lake which really
is a beautiful visual metaphor mmm I've
met something we found on the day I
remember not wanting to say anything in
response to Oliver in the scene and
Lucas saying I should say no in response
and now watching the movie he was
absolutely right you're gonna hold what
happened last night against me
would've made any sense I like that look
back I gave him there just to make sure
he's not too upset
in the geography of the boys bedrooms is
described almost exactly like this in
the book and the fact that we found a
place that had a bathroom that not
wonderful went itself to that is
incredible
what do you think's going through his
head here oh look shirts come off so you
just were like saying he wasn't maybe
gonna get in bed take a nap I'm
wondering what Oliver is thinking here
what the moment about calling you back
as you've decided to go to your separate
rooms there's this again remember Lukey
telling me to put my arms up here that's
promising your heart again
good power seized yeah I love that you
can see through the door and I and I
don't know any people notice that that's
for like the ninth or tenth viewing or
something
love the ambiguity of this moment is it
a warm hello or is it boy - get him
jealous and Michael I still I see mr.
Froman in the scene and I wondered how
how much does he know seems like he's
all-knowing almost professor I got your
note
thank you for reminding me I'm gonna go
into town pick up those type pages today
so maybe this afternoon would be a good
time - later we're looking well for
later before you leave okay
so later later you get a mirror
Oliver we found it interesting in the
discussion of the upcoming scene there's
a guy behind you during this sort of
very intimate conversation we're about
to talk about and there's no shame in
the talking of it net man is Stefano
so he's the most delicious restaurant in
all of crema and Vav that's where army
had an eight-hour lunch once I don't
want you to regret anything and I hate
the thought that maybe I may have messed
you up I don't want either of us to pay
for this it's not like I'm gonna tell
anyone that's the shot in this phone I
see the most of myself in with the
stuttering and the manic
are you happy I came here
I kiss you if I could I love watching
this in theaters for this moment because
you can kind of feel people tense up a
little bit that's our script supervisor
Rachel I love Amira's hat in this screen
which is a dish of the area mm-hmm
little sways sweet for my tasting but
that's alright you know what the book
falls apart here then a Leo is just
tossing the pits on the floor
was there any sense of trepidation going
into this scene Luca had trepidations
about it because he thought maybe it
worked better as a literary metaphor and
he just had doubts about it ever making
it into the movie so there wasn't there
was not a ton of anxiety because I
simply thought well if this sucks it's
not gonna be him there yeah we just kind
of found this moment because I don't
think any of us realized how hard it is
to reach into a peach and take the coin
yeah
the idea here was just how I wouldn't
how it actually happened what would
actually happen this kind of scene or
scenario and that anything comedic or no
ostentatious about it would just make it
ring untrue I love how the music builds
up to the moment hmm
oh he's not gonna do with his hands here
you talk about in acting classes being
private in public hmm then it just seems
the quintessential private and public
scene to me how you're asked to do
something they couldn't be more private
and that noise is so European to me was
it cicadas outside that cicadas yeah I
think so yeah sounds like there was an
owl
yeah that our Louise tastes something so
many miss it's wonderful what did you do
are we so great in this I see you've
moved on to the plant kingdom already
what's next minimus I suppose you've
ever given up animals you know that's me
how much of this has scripted to this
was all scripted huh I wish everybody
was as sick as you this scene was
terrifying Sam and I'm glad it came out
presented Lee because I thought how how
does it take this wild turn in this fun
scene how does it take this we're in
this playful see me
hurting me then gunfight so all this is
in the script and this was scripted yeah
oh I just thought it was something that
you guys found oh sorry
to go hobby wasted so many days why
don't you give me a sign my friend Joey
came was screening the other name and
saying this was his favorite scene in
the film I felt like this scene
capturing the lovers lovers comfortable
around each other more than any other
scene we actively molested sorry
no it's fine I just decided I should
keep my distance I come out of here four
hours almost every night I know that I'm
looking him in the direction there to
put his put my hand in his shirt link
man where's this shot that wouldn't
that's this is right off the stairs that
lead downstairs into the area with the
pool oh yeah
I love how the scenes just bleed into
each other he's gone I like that I look
genuinely exhausted
for Oliver
lady in red this very ball title
I had to work foolish dream on this boy
yeah no I just
hey book welfare
now you go oh that's in English and
Esther was so good in this scene because
to say a lion in the language they eat
is not your own and that is so
vulnerable
remember we finished shooting the scene
and I said you you absolutely murdered
that because that is not easy to do I
would not want that prescription in the
scene Oh Michael I just love the energy
in the scene this is one of my favorite
scenes in the film did he tell you to
have that energy or did you guys assume
it lying in the seats like that so
something about getting to lie in the
Sun right you know makes you behave a
particular way then you get a sense of
sexuality between the couple
mm-hmm just putting their hands on each
other
and that's just a glimpse into what that
scene was there's more we're all getting
this Oliver is such genuine affection
between all of us in the making of this
film that just seems like it was just as
the time passed it just felt like it was
gonna be over and it was a shame but
there was such pleasure
I love the way Amira's slaps Oliver's
back in this but you smashed my fear
I love the better luck next time what he
gives her
and I love how army kind of tells me to
not ask so many questions here when he
sits back down it just feels feel so
true even to our relationship in real
life the pestering the pestering on my
part in him going yeah leave me alone a
lady staring at the two of you behind
you know I never noticed that I'm you
know she's like hmm and this moment is
extraordinary to me I don't you're in a
bus but for some reason we're following
this trail I'd love to hear what Lucas
Anna was hurry to so evocative and it's
wonderful elated with the fall is yeah
this is one of the most fun days I've
ever had shooting anything me it's a we
took a van to the bottom of this
location that took two hours and then
there was a separate hike with the crew
everybody I carried one a piece of
equipment up to this there's a lot of
hiking in this film was this shot
actually wasn't cuz what we're running
through there was thorny so our legs are
getting torn up but it wasn't this like
a reservoir that had to be this was a
dam today has an artificial dam and we
had one shot you know we're gonna get to
here with the waterfall we had one go at
it and they played one of those sirens
they played in World War two it allows
people to go inside the water is coming
exactly
I'm not amazing this shot here this is
right when it emerged that there's a cut
here to when it's even yeah exactly
I had point we had one shot at this it
was perfect
I love the abandoned you know maybe I
shouldn't reveal this but so be it I
stumble there and I just became so
exhausted an army runs behind me going
keep going
I guess they cut before I really stopped
and here you know I was one of those
rocks I'm hiding behind an Army's hiding
behind another one of the rocks just
movie magic this was our last day of
filming this is in Bergamo where do they
go in the novel when they take that trip
together to mr. Rome all right mmm-hmm
room with a view not only little moments
there's no way to fake this so just so
protectionism no this was a lot of fun
to shoot I remember shooting this in
begging I hopefully they can get the
rights to that song that's great this
was great were supposed to be drunken
since the last day of shooting we all
had gone out to a dinner maybe a block
from this location and they were
certainly wine and things of that nature
you know I love the idea that they're
just giving each other just fully giving
themselves to each other no and don't
even let him go you're away from home
two actors in the scene here are the
leads of Lucas partner Fernando's film
Wow that dancing she does love it I love
her you mods or something about it it's
talking to someone about this scene that
I look scorned here or jealousy that was
never really my intention I think he was
just supposed to be more than just in
awe of this guy so unabashed unless that
he's gone off with a girl it's tumbling
away all right this sequence coming up
with stuff to shoot cuz I already had a
mouth full of puke in there uh-uh
I just don't want to reveal the audience
you already have a mouth full of you
stop trying to act like you don't have a
mouth full of stuff
throwing up on cameras in his heart
there's never enough no gotta go method
no giving this shot is extraordinary to
me where the light is just it's already
to intrude it's like a painting this is
the last shot we did in the movie this
was the last scene we shot this was
tough to get we did a number of takes of
this kiss because it's supposed to be
you know maybe the most unabashed kiss
between the lovers in the movie but
that's tough to play and there's no way
to when it's overdone then it becomes
less real so we had to do a number of
them where we weren't doing too much and
you see the film flickering Man Olaf and
the blue this is my favorite scene of
armies in this film because I wouldn't I
would never know how to play this and he
plays about 6,000 emotions here I love
this and I don't know if Luca planned it
or what but that's the only place that
appears in the entire phone it's almost
a Leo's dreams or something I love the
blurriness throughout these scene and
what's going through his mind here and
always kills me I can never tell if it's
a guilt were worried about Elio or if
he's in another noon or if he's in so
much pain that he's wondering if it's
about himself
not guilt
empathy Fraley oh oh it's like you said
6,000 things so glad there weren't a
bunch of lines here to me to indicate
what's going on and he starts pulling
away it's not time yet
do you guys plan anything for this or so
just this is so clean out
no time to linger the guy comes
immediately yep I love this final work
hmm
yeah doubt
I love it's that he doesn't open the
window and extend them unwavering you
look so young in this moment it's that
yellow backpack it just hmm
it's unrelenting the Train I love doing
the senior I just know this feeling so
well that sense of it's that sense of
abandonment emptiness sick sick to your
stomach
I love for the woman in the background
of this scene again I can't I can't
remember if she was employed or if she
was just there one of those million
things that just happened see me well
listen well go into web no that's on a
cruise only remember if you did a lot of
takes on this did we did too
Mero is so generous here so easier to do
this kind of scene you're in it with
someone what they see now the lady in
red is in blue and that is most
vulnerable she comes
as any of this improvised mm-hmm
it's nice to keep him so this is dr.
cotton yeah I could see she did good
history I don't remember if her
character is French in the novel mm-hmm
Italian know one of the cheats to help
me feel here that's wonderful
hardly a cheat this is an ode to a film
that Esther his father directed huh it's
a shot that's exactly the same beautiful
Mookie's talked about and some CUNY's
and I love this moment getting out of
the car here and there was a bit of
dialogue that we did as well that we cut
out of it before I think the idea is
established that the help in the house
have very much been a part of this
romance
yes holy
this shot is always just kills me and I
how does it communicate how how the
coldness and the where love was sit
watching you sit there earlier that
wallpaper
mr. dinner they put all that up
I wasn't a novel mr. Perlman likes to
throw things
I like the beginning to the scene
because very much the lead-up to so
welcome home thanks Oliver enjoy the
trip yeah I think you did you two had a
nice friendship yeah yeah that shirt on
the nice weekend hurt you or earlier
you're too smart enough to know how rare
no special like you two had was tiptoe
tiptoe tiptoe past I said to nuit
Baskar sit there why Oliver made me very
intelligent but he was more than
intelligent
when you two had had everything and
nothing to do with intelligence it was
good you were both lucky to have found
each other because you two are good I
think he was better than
I'm sure he'd say the same thing you see
which flatters you both and when you
least expect it
Nature has cunning ways of finding our
weakest spot hmm just remember I'm here
right now you may not want to feel
anything maybe you never wanted to do
anything and maybe it's not to me you'll
want to speak about these things but
feel something you obviously did look
you had a beautiful friendship
maybe more than a friendship and I envy
you my place most parents would hope the
whole thing goes away prayed their sons
land on their feet but I am NOT such a
parent we rip out so much of ourselves
to be cured of things faster now we go
bankrupt by the age of 30 I never less
to offer each time we start with someone
new it's one my favorite lines in the
movie but to make yourself feel nothing
so as not to feel anything what a waste
this all comes straight from the Knopf
have I spoken out of turn and I'll say
one more thing it'll clear the air I may
have come close but I never had what you
two have something always held me back
her stood in her way
how you live your life is your business
just remember our hearts and our bodies
are given to us only once and before you
know it your hearts worn out and as for
your body there comes a point when no
one looks at it much less wants to come
near it
that's one of my favorite lines right
now there's sorrow pain don't kill it
who is it the joy you felt
mom no I don't think she does I love
that moment hmm
whether he's telling the truth fair
enough I remember feeling tremendous
relief a great sense of intimacy hmm and
quiet and it it felt like an opportunity
to just talk to each other talk this is
so beautiful in this this almost looks
like it one of those extraordinary I
don't know
Ansel Adams Luka likes to brag about how
much he costumed that fit together the
shot so they're really beautiful so they
were worth every penny
well I think bragging in the how little
spent department is always even better
even better new romantic hey leo I was
bummed those exterior shots we just saw
they were supposed to bring you back to
Italy for during the winter
that's must be walking through them
livin I think a certain budgetary
constraint so how did they care is that
what is that I think they must put up a
green screen kind of a nice thing but
you know it's beautiful and there's the
alias pin which other it looks like
maybe some eyeliner or something exactly
nuts shirt looks like a Jean Cocteau I'm
right his drawings
in the winter light you can feel it so
great God Michael you're right I've
never had that thought before but how
did he get any we shot this in the
summer this bit yeah I wonder how he got
that light cuz it really does finish
some of the blue maybe they just added
it somehow the scene in the in the study
when we were in the background I think
initially was meant to be at the very
beginning of the story we put it the end
and you have your headphone line I miss
you
moment he's been waiting for news
it's from the book oh you're getting
married I suppose
you never said anything
that's wonderful news my Helios a good
liar if it's mild frozen I'd say this is
my favorite Amira scene in the movie her
laugh is is so unabashed you for next
summer and guess what he's a she hey God
you guys play this so beautifully
because you say wonderful and you're
happy for the boy that stayed with you
over this summer and you support him but
you're well aware of the implications
for your son did you guys share look
here they know about us
how this one here unit Elio
remember every
what was that but it wasn't a dream
that's exactly it no that's exactly you
I don't like the idea here that it's or
we can end up together or not and I hope
maybe you landed a certain way
this big fireplace
so evocative
what do you say about this
just grateful that I had enough personal
experiences at a young age to be able to
draw from obviously you don't want to do
that all the time it can be dangerous as
an actor to pull too much from from
yourself but with the camera this close
and and the tape being as long as it is
it's just falling anything else would
ring false
I wonder on shots like this sometimes
because the camera doesn't move if a
cameraman would like not be right in
front of you what it's like to just be
intimate in front of me who's sitting
right in front of you yeah I guess the
camera was just in the fireplace there
wasn't anybody behind it huh allowing
you your privacy
a video
it was nice that Luca wasn't too
stringent about little moments like that
where I could kind of break the tension
a little bit I think I say something
even and I'm it's this sequence
and the great trick with this scene too
is maybe they CGI'd it out but in my
right ear I had a little a piece that
was playing Sophie on song I'm a song
that's playing here so I could kind of
mirror the structure it was a little bit
like an acting exercise system he
listening to music playing with with the
music's making you feel it's wonderful
music is magic can make you feel
absolutely
we just go along with you through this
whole thing it's so wonderful
I've never had this experience of making
something and then getting to just enjoy
seeing it over and over and over again
honestly honestly
I always just like the idea at the end
of this shot that there isn't it isn't a
sense of being content but that there is
the idea similar that phone call that
and it wasn't a dream all of that
happened and even though it's over for
now it's still an experience I get to
keep yeah it's almost like a secret and
I see that we all see it in your face
little homage to boyhood here at the end
stealing a two-second look into the lens
that's the movie huh this is a lot of
fun Michael thank you for doing that
with me I've been the most amazing I've
seen partner doesn't get ahead as this
movie in such an amazing mentor thank
you for for uh trusting and for just
being there with me we did it together
I'm so grateful to have had the
opportunity and there of course in
loving memory of Bill Paxton who visited
us on set before he passed away this
year on a lovely man
you
