Queer Eye Star Criticises Call Me By Your Name’s Problematic Age Gap
Queer Eye star Karamo Brown has called out the 2017 film ‘Call Me By Your Name’ for being problematic in an interview with Insider.
Brown criticised the age gap between the two leads. While in the film and book Elio is 17 and Oliver is 24 –the actors have a far greater age gap in real life of 20 and 30.
“I’ve worked with many survivors of sexual assault, especially in the LGBTQ community, which oftentimes goes unreported. And so the minute I saw that movie, I thought, ‘Here we are glorifying this sort of relationship,'” Brown said.
“I know we’re calling him a college student, but it looks like a grown man having sex with a little boy. And for me, I just was not OK with that. And I was like, ‘Why are we pretending like this is OK in any sense? Fashion or form?'
“I think to myself, ‘If that was an older man, or a perceived college student who looked that much older with a 16 or 17-year-old girl, we would have all had a hissy fit.'”
Timothée Chalamet, who plays Elio, and Armie Hammer, who plays Oliver, have both defended the age gap in the past.
“(It’s) smaller than the age gap between my parents,” Hammer has said.
“Outside the context of the movie [the question of the age gap] makes more sense. But when you see the film and read the book it is so not part of the equation.
“That’s a conversation worth having after people have seen the film. But everyone in my experience who has seen it hasn’t had that conversation. Because the relationship couldn’t be more consensual and full of love.”
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