good evening welcome
thank you
so it's one of the song in the movie
it's by sufjan stevens
Armie we're going to talk with the translation
everything is working?
yeah
Timothée?
Okay so i'm talking french but I apologize for everyone here because it isn't perfect
so if I make mistakes...
yann : we don't care
Timothée, it's your first talk show in France
Your father is French, your mother is American
Wait, I'm going to take this off because it's useless
So, in the movie we also hear this song
Yann : What is that song?
This song is either the Bach...
Yann: Yes, it's Bach
And you are playing it
Thank you, yes
Yann: You are playing it in the movie
Yann: We continue with music
Yann: There's also...
This!
There,
It's you, Armie, who dances like crazy
and it's one of the iconic scenes from the movie
Yann: It's one of the movie's iconic scenes
For the New Yorker, it's an erotic triumph
For the NYT, it's an ecstasy for the senses
For Rolling Stone, there is magic in every shot
For the NY Observer, it's a breathtaking masterpiece
For Entertainment Weekly, it casts an erotic and sensual spell
For Esquire, it's one of the most moving movies in the history of cinema
For Vanity Fair, it's a film of vertiginous beauty
For the Guardian, it's the number one movie of the year
And for American talk shows, it's this:
Now, what do we add? There's nothing more to say
This movie, you've been promoting it for more than a year
What are the words you hear most often? The three adjectives that your hear most often?
Often, we hear "moving" and there's especially this scene played by Michael Stuhlbarg, my father in the film
And there's this monologue which is really moving
because it's a plan on how to suffer
but also, how to fall in love without too much pain
Fuck, my French really isn't perfect, sorry
Yann: it is, your French is really good!
It's a movie about first love set in Italy at the begging of the eighties
An American student tumbles into the vacation home of young Elio's parents
Elio is you, Timothée and the American is you, Armie Hammer
And you're going to beat around the bush for a while, then you're going to live your story
Timmy: It's so surreal to see it again
 
Armie: We did the math backstage, uh, we shot the movie in 6 weeks  and we have now spent up to 53 weeks promoting it
So plenty of time.
Interviewer: so how many times have you seen this trailer? 200 times maybe?
Timmy : I did watch it a lot of times. But Armie doesn’t like to see himself in movies.
But as for me I don’t mind! Because, because… it’s cool man to be in a movie! You know?
Interviewer : so the movie tells something interesting.
In a love story the one who makes the first step is not necessarily the one who has the most self-confidence,
who is the oldest or has the most experience.
Timmy : but especially because in the movie Elio comes from the village in Italy !
Oliver on the other hand is American and doesn’t feel in his place.
That is an advantage for Elio because he feels… Uh… how to say that?
He feels like the superior one
Nice! Got it!
He feels a little more confident sometimes.
But similarily, Oliver has more experience and has explored more things than Elio
so from that point of view he feels more comfortable than Elio
Interviewer: the funny thing is that you’re mocking the American accent at one point in the movie right?
Timmy : Oh, in the movie? Ah yeah yeah I do!
Interviewer : (imitates Oliver) : “Later” ! Like you’re making yoghurt! ABWLWLWL *tries to make yoghurt noises*.
You know (to Armie), in France we often mock American accents !
Armie: fair enough! I don't blame you
Interviewer : and you represent the always self-confident and at ease American. Sometimes brutal!
Like not knowing how to eat a boiled egg without destroying it!
And that makes us ask: why are Americans always so self-confident?
Armie : Well it’s funny with the character of Oliver specifically
a lof of the confidence is really a cover.
He's a character who, it takes the confidence of Elio
to say "this is how I feel. This is what is happening"
to actually motivate him
because other than that
the reason he says "later" and the reason he leaves
and is so brash about it is because he feels something
that he knows is a part of him but he doesn't understand.
it scares him so a lot of that brashness
is in fact a cover for feeling too vulnerable in a way
Interviewer : and you Timothée, you’re American and French! Is your character more French or American?
Timmy : Elio is more European because he lives there and it’s only in the movie that there’s this French side.
In the book it’s only Italian-American…
Interviewer: but there are so many languages in the movie!
Timmy: Yeah there are many languages but it’s also because of the director.
Because I speak French a little, he wanted to put this French side in the movie.
But right now – wait no not right now -  there are so many French actors in the movie like (names French actors) and uh…
Esther Garrel
there are french actors in it right?
Armie: I'm a second late so you just keep talking
Timmy: especially with Esther it was a big joy because she’s the sister of Louis Garrel (French actor)
who was the crush of my sister when she was in high school like…
The Zac Efron of my sister was Louis Garrel. And uh… No I’m kidding! If my sister watches this…
Pauline I’m joking!
Interviewer: we have rarely seen a young man filmed like that.
You’re half naked for two hours and the camera turns around you, turns around you like that.
The camera desires you. How do actors play as objects of desire?
Timmy : I don’t know but …
I think it’s really Luca – our director –
who created this environment and it’s not only in this movie, in his other movies they all have this seductive, desirous, sexual tone.
Armie: it’s very much a part of Luca.
He’s sort of Epicurean, enjoyer of all things.
When you see people eating in the movie, it’s because has set the tone for it.
And how he actually shot it
He shot the entire movie on only one lens.
It's only one 35mm lens and one camera.
He just set it up so it felt like you were watching
you were just there in the room. You were a voyeur.
Interviewer: (to Timmy) Why does this make you laugh?
Timmy: Voyeur made me laugh
Interviewer: (to Armie) I learned it was the first time you wore such short pants!
Armie : Yeah and by the way I really enjoy wearing short shorts!
I went home after we shot the movie. And I put on a pair of my regular short shorts
And I felt like "these are terrible!"
Interviewer:  did the post-production team enjoy you wearing those shorts? I’ve seen an anecdote on that matter.
Timmy : (laughs) it’s good for me because I understand what he says and I wait for you to answer!
Interview : so? Did they like it?
Armie : Yeah, yeah. The shorts were very short aaaand that’s all I say : shorts were short.
Timmy : Can we talk about this? Is this true? Because actually… Can I really say this word, are you sure?
Interview : Yes we’re on French television ! We can say everything! We can say “balls”, we can say “fuck”!
Timmy: FUCK YEAH MAN!
You can get kicked off American TV for that!
so the shorts were so short that Armie’s balls always were slipping out! So they had to remove them
Armie : Allriiiight! (pleading Timmy to stop)
Interviewer : (to Armie) you blushed!
Armie: well I wasn't expecting to come out here to talk about my balls!
Interview : welcome to French television!
Interviewer : this movie talks about classical music, about 16th century’s texts and about culture and nowadays that’s a good thing
Armie : Yeah it’s also a pleasure that we have a movie that celebrates love
and at a time where the world seems like it's fucking crazy
and full of hate it's wonderful to have a movie that just
celebrates love for the sake of love.
Interview: now let's talk about the peach scene! what can you say about it?
Armie : that’s your scene (to Timmy)
Timmy : There are moments in life when you’re young and you see a peach…
And you say to yourself “why is this peach here?”
and uh… aaaand you follow your explorative instinct and…
Interview : (ironically but nicely) you explain it so well in French! Everyone has understood!
Interviewer: there are people, even famous ones, who say the movie is impossible/wrong because it shows a love story between a 17-year old and a 24-year old adult. What do you have to say to them?
Timmy: Watch the movie or read the book.
Everyone I know who said that hadn’t read the book nor watched the movie (struggles while saying the French equivalent of “nor”)
Armie: Also it’s a story of two adults! At seventeen, you’re not a child and neither is the character of Elio a child.
He’s very mature. He’s more the aggressive one, he's more self-assured.
to say "this is what I want." There’s no weird thing in there. There's no power dynamic or unbalance.﻿
It’s just two human beings who genuinely fall for each other. There's no legal age to human beings.
