September 30, 2020
Timothée Chalamet Appears on HBO Series by 'Call Me By Your Name' Director, Armie Hammer to Follow
Kilian Melloy READ TIME: 2 MIN.
"Call Me By Your Name" star Timoth�e Chalamet made a split-second appearance on the new HBO series from the director of the popular 2017 film, Luca Guadagnino - and his co-star, Armie Hammer, is next.
That's according to a report at IndieWire, where word of Chalamet's brief role as a "background extra" was posted. The actor appeared in the third hour of the eight-episode series, sharing a scene briefly with Chalamet's real-life friend Scott Mescudi, also known as recording artist Kid Cudi.
Timoth�e Chalamet's a background extra in the latest ep of WE ARE WHO WE ARE and Luca Guadagnino told me eagle-eyed viewers will be able to spot Armie later in the series, too... https://t.co/ROKBWORQ0G– Kyle Buchanan (@kylebuchanan) September 29, 2020
Mescudi plays the father of one of the series' two leads, Caitlin (Jordan Kristine Seam�n), who experiments with gender identity and is best friends with Fraser (Jack Dylan Grazer), the son of the lesbian commander (Chlo� Sevigny) of a U.S. Army base in Italy.
Unlike "Call Me By Your Name," which was set in the the '80s, "We Are Who We Are" takes place much closer to the present day, in 2016. But both projects focus on young people sorting out their identities - sexual and otherwise.
Hammer played Oliver, the older graduate student who was a love interest to Chalamet's teenaged character Elio in "CMBYN." Rumor has it that Hammer, too, will be a background extra in a future episode of "We Are Who We Are."
Though director Luca Guadagnino is busy with a number of projects, including a reported biopic of Hollywood hustler Scotty Bowers and a "Scarface" remake, he has said that he will helm a sequel to the 2017 drama that will bring Chalamet and Hammer back together as main protagonists.
As EDGE reported last April, Guadagnino spoke with Italian newspaper La Repubblica about the sequel, which is titled "Find Me," and said, "Of course, it was a great pleasure to work with Timoth�e Chalamet, Armie Hammer, Michael Stuhlbarg, Esther Garrel and the other actors. Everyone will be in the new movie."
The followup will be based on the novel by Andr� Aciman, who also wrote the novel that "Call Me By Your Name" was based on.
Kilian Melloy serves as EDGE Media Network's Associate Arts Editor and Staff Contributor. His professional memberships include the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association, the Boston Online Film Critics Association, The Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association, and the Boston Theater Critics Association's Elliot Norton Awards Committee.
