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Dakota Johnson leaves Sundance audience stunned with cannibalism joke about Armie Hammer

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Updated 12:22 20 Jan 2023 GMTPublished 12:16 20 Jan 2023 GMT

Dakota Johnson leaves Sundance audience stunned with cannibalism joke about Armie Hammer

The Fifty Shades of Grey star made the joke while on stage at the festival

Emily Brown

Emily Brown

Crowd members at Sundance Film Festival were left stunned after Dakota Johnson took to the stage and made a cannibalism joke about Armie Hammer.

The Fifty Shades Of Grey star appeared at the event to present an award to director Luca Guadagnino, who is known for films such as Bones And All and I Am Love.

Johnson has worked with the director previously on titles including A Bigger Splash and Suspiria, but it was one of the projects they didn't collaborate on that she referenced while on stage.

“It was here at Sundance in 2017 that audiences experienced a film that is uniquely characterised by Luca’s iconic approach to storytelling," she said. “The vision and the style of it is Call Me By Your Name – sadly, I wasn’t in that one."

Call Me By Your Name stars Hammer alongside Timothée Chalamet and tells the story of a romance between a seventeen-year-old student and the older man his father has hired as a research assistant.

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Johnson referenced one moment in particular from the novel the film is based on, which sees the character played by Hammer eat a peach that Chalamet’s character has performed a sexual act on.

During her speech at Sundance, Johnson joked: "Luca had asked me to play the role of the peach, but our schedules conflicted. Thank God, because then I would have been another woman that Armie Hammer tried to eat.”

The quip references allegations which emerged on social media and saw Hammer being accused of sending messages which described graphic sexual fantasies and mentioned cannibalism.

Hammer has denied the allegations.
Erik Pendzich / Alamy Stock Photo

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The messages have not been verified and Hammer slammed them as 'bulls**t', describing them as 'vicious and spurious online attacks'.

However, he ended up losing talent representation and being dropped from a number of projects in the wake of the claims.

Johnson's joke took the audience by surprise and was met with a mixture of gasps, laughs, and applause, but she didn't stop there as she then turned her attention to Bones and All, Guadagnino's most recent film which tells a love story between two cannibals.

Drawing a link with Call Me By Your Name, Johnson commented: "It's been five years since that film premiered here and Luca hasn't stopped taking us to exciting places. Who knew cannibalism was so popular?"

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Guadagnino has previously been forced to deny claims that Bones and All was inspired by the allegations that emerged about Hammer.

Featured Image Credit: Variety/MediaPunch Inc / Alamy Stock Photo

Topics: Film and TV, Celebrity

Emily Brown
Emily Brown

Emily Brown is UNILAD Editorial Lead at LADbible Group. She first began delivering news when she was just 11 years old - with a paper route - before graduating with a BA Hons in English Language in the Media from Lancaster University. Emily joined UNILAD in 2018 to cover breaking news, trending stories and longer form features. She went on to become Community Desk Lead, commissioning and writing human interest stories from across the globe, before moving to the role of Editorial Lead. Emily now works alongside the UNILAD Editor to ensure the page delivers accurate, interesting and high quality content.

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