Call Me By Your Name screenwriter James Ivory annoyed by lack of full-frontal nudity
James Ivory won an Oscar for his work on the coming-of-age drama but was unhappy with how the sex scenes were portrayed
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Your support makes all the difference.The Oscar-winning screenwriter for Call Me By Your Name has said he isn't happy with director Luca Guadagnino's explanation for why there is no full-frontal nudity in the film.
James Ivory reiterated in an interview with the Guardian that his original script included nudity for Elio [Timothee Chalamet] and Oliver [Armie Hammer[.
Ivory has spoken in the past about wishing the film had included full-frontal nudity, but Guadagnino defended the choice by calling the nude scenes "irrelevant".
Ivory responded: "When Luca says he never thought of putting nudity in, that is totally untrue. He sat in this very room where I am sitting now, talking about how he would do it, so when he says that it was a conscious aesthetic decision not to - well that's just bulls**t.
"When people are wandering around before or after making love, and they're decorously covered with sheets, it's always seemed phony to me. I never liked doing that. And I don't do it, as you know," he added, referring to his 1987 adaptation of E.M. Forster's novel Maurice starring Hugh Grant and Rupert Graves,
According to the Guardian, clauses in Chalamet and Hammer's contracts do not allow for full-frontal nudity.
Accepting his Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 90th Academy Awards this year, Ivory thanked Guadagnino, calling him "sensitive and sensible", and the cast, whom he said were "wonderful" and "emotion-filled".
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