Dakota Johnson woke up on the opening night of the Sundance Film Festival by riffing on “Call Me By Your Name” actor Armie Hammer, who has been accused of sexual assault and cannibalistic instincts. (Watch the video below.)
Johnson appeared at the “Taste of Sundance” dinner in Park City, Utah to honor “Call Me By Your Name” director Luca Guadagnino. He joked that he almost played Peach in the 2017 gay romance, but had to turn it down.
“Thank God, though,” he said. “I would have been another woman that Armie Hammer tried to eat.”
In the film, Timothee Chalamet’s character masturbates with the fruit. Hammer’s character later discovers what’s left of the peach, but in the book he actually eats it.
Johnson, who starred in Guadagnino’s A Bigger Splash and Suspiria, later appeared to be referring to his 2022 film Bones and All, which features Chalamet as part of a meat-loving human pair.
“Who knew cannibalism was so popular?” she snapped.
His remarks were met with “gasps and giggles,” reported Variety, which shared a video of Johnson’s speech.
In 2021, Hammer entered rehab for drug, alcohol and sex problems and appears to have retired from show business.
He denied the assault allegations.
