It will be very hard to ever top that iconic scene from American Pie.
Poor Jim despoiled an entire apple pie and now another fruit will be making a rather controversial appearance in the upcoming Call Me By Your Name.
The movie stars Armie Hammer as an American graduate student who spends an idyllic summer in Italy with the family of a professor.
The art-house romance has already been causing controversy in the US because of its provocative sexual themes, but the latest revelation really is the peach.
And, yes, the scene does involve an actual peach.
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The movie is based on the novel of the same name by André Aciman. Even the author himself considered dropping this particular scene from his manuscript.
The director Luca Guadagnino confessed that he had the same thoughts.
He told OUT magazine: “I was tempted to remove it from the script. In the book, it is so strong and explicit that I thought it was a metaphor, something that couldn’t exist in real life.”
The fruity moment comes when Elio, the half-Italian teenage son of the professor fantasises about their handsome guest.
Guadagnino added: “I was struggling with the possibility that you can masturbate yourself with such a fruit, so I grabbed a peach and I tried. And I have to say—it works.”
He wasn’t the only one, since the young star who plays 17-yearold Elio, Timothée Chalamet, also road-tested the concept.
Guadagnino said: “I went to Timothée [Chalamet, who plays Elio], and said, ‘We shoot the scene, because I tried it and it worked.’ And he said, ‘I tried, too, and I already knew it worked.’”
Their dedication to their craft really is commendable.
The movie has already garnered lavish advance reviews and early Oscars buzz, although some conservative commentators, including actor James Woods, have virulently attacked the themes of homosexuality and teenage sexuality.
In response, Guadagnino said: “It’s just a story about two people who fall in love for the first time, without waiting for the other shoe to drop, expecting something horrible to befall them, and a price to pay for loving authentically.”
Hammer added: “I know that I will carry the experience of making this movie for the rest of my life. I don’t want to say movies can change the world, but if we can change one person’s perspective, we can change that person’s world.”