Bones and All Director on Trusting Timothée Chalamet and Taylor Russell

Director Luca Guadagnino’s next film, Bones and All, is an adaptation of author Camille DeAngelis’ best-selling novel of the same name. The story chronicles an odyssey of sorts through Reagan’s conservative era of the late ’80s. As with the filmmaker’s previous novel adaptation, Call Me By Your Name, Bones and All explores themes of belonging and navigating one’s place in the world. It stars Taylor Russell and Timothée Chalamet as Maren and Lee, respectively, young lovers forced to live on the outskirts of society due to being born with a need to consume human flesh. In his interview with Collider’s Perri Nemiroff, Guadagnino describes the value of trusting his performers and being open to what they bring to each scene, with an emphasis on two scenes in which Chalamet and Russell wowed him with their work. The director also discusses one of the most demanding sequences to film in his upcoming feature Challengers starring Zendaya, how gardening has influenced his filmmaking, and which horror classi