James Ivory has offered an account on his exit from co-directorial duties on the 2017 drama “Call Me by Your Name,” explaining his creative differences with director Luca Guadagnino. In…
, the seasoned film director and writer goes into detail about being dropped from the project after adapting the screenplay from André Aciman’s book of the same name. Ivory went on to win the Oscar for best adapted screenplay for “Call Me by Your Name.” Ivory digs into his relationship with Guadagnino, his original vision for the romance’s casting and some frustrations he has with the final film.
“When I turned in my script to them, it was accepted without any changes or requests for rewrites, and soon money was found to make the film, and to pay me,” Ivory wrote. “The last time I saw Luca was before [shooting] began, in New York, when I still believed I was codirecting with him; we joked about what might happen if we got into an argument on set, and laughed about it. And then I was dropped. I was never told why I had been dropped, by Luca or anybody else.
Ivory goes on to detail being invited to the first day of shooting in Crema, Italy and learning that the film’s production company would not pay for his lodging throughout the shoot. Ivory also explains that he had originally cast Greta Scacchi andin the film, with Scacchi playing the mother of Elio and LaBeouf as his love interest, Oliver. Ivory explained that Guadagnino was upset about Ivory making the decision, and dropped them both abruptly without calling their agents.
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