Dakota Johnson, 33, threw shadiness astatine Armie Hammer, 36, successful her code connected the opening nighttime of the Sundance Film Festival. Dakota was presenting an grant to Italian manager Luca Guadagnino, 51, erstwhile she mentioned his coming-of-age 2017 movie Call Me By Your Name, which starred Armie and Timothee Chalamet. The histrion joked that she was astir formed successful the movie arsenic the peach that Timothee’s quality performs a intersexual enactment on, which Armie’s quality aboriginal discovers.
“Luca had asked maine to play the relation of the peach but our schedules conflicted. Thank deity though due to the fact that past I would’ve been different pistillate that Armie Hammer had tried to eat,” Dakota said.
Dakota Johnson jokes that she wasn’t formed successful #CallMeByYourName: “Luca had asked maine to play the relation of the peach, but our schedules conflicted. Thank God, due to the fact that past I would person been different pistillate that Armie Hammer tried to eat.” pic.twitter.com/9RZqeu4SCN
— Variety (@Variety) January 20, 2023
Dakota’s remark astir Armie evoked gasps and laughs from the audience. The Madame Web star was outright referencing the Armie cannibal accusations which were brought to airy successful the bombshell Discovery+ documentary House of Hammer that came retired successful September 2022. Armie has besides been accused of intersexual battle and maltreatment by respective ex-partners, but he’s vehemently denied each the accusations.
After shading Armie, Dakota presented the grant to Luca and mentioned his caller movie Bones and All, which besides stars Timothee successful a communicative astir cannibalism. “Who knew cannibalism was truthful popular?” Dakota joked, arsenic the assemblage laughed.
Armie has stepped retired of the spotlight amidst the maltreatment allegations. Last year, Variety reported that Armie had recovered enactment selling timeshares astatine a edifice successful the Caymans “to capable the days and gain wealth to enactment his family…The world is he’s wholly broke.” In House of Hammer, respective women came guardant with startling accusations against Armie. One of the alleged victims, Courtney Vucekovich, claimed that she underwent a month-long intensive therapy course for trauma and PTSD pursuing her narration with Armie, who reportedly texted Courtney that helium was “100% a cannibal.”
Armie’s ex-wife, Elizabeth Chambers, told E! News that she watched the documentary and was “shocked” astir the women’s stories. “It was evidently heartbreaking connected truthful galore levels and precise painful,” she said. “I decidedly was surprised, but I deliberation that’s to beryllium expected.” Elizabeth besides said that she “stands successful solidarity” with her ex-husband’s alleged victims.
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