Sundance Fest 2023: Opening Night–Honoring Director Guadagnino, Joking about Armie Hammer’s Cannibalism

Dakota Johnson: Racy Armie Hammer Joke on Sundance Opening Night: ‘Who Knew Cannibalism Was So Popular?’

PARK CITY, UTAH - JANUARY 19: Dakota Johnson speaks onstage at Sundance Institute's Inaugural Opening Night: A Taste Of Sundance Presented By IMDbPro at The Basin Recreation Fieldhouse on January 19, 2023 in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images)
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Dakota Johnson started off the 2023 Sundance Film Festival with a racy joke.

Johnson, who appeared as a presenter at the inaugural “A Taste of Sundance” dinner on Thursday night, joked that she was offered the role of the peach in Luca Guadagnino’s Oscar-winning indie Call Me by Your Name, but she had to turn it down due to scheduling conflicts.

“Thank god, though,” she said. “I would have been another woman that Armie Hammer would have tried to eat.”

Johnson praised Guadagnino as a lover of cinema (and Prada) as she presented him with the international icon award. She starred in his remake of “Suspiria,” but her joke about Hammer made the room gasp and giggle.

In the film, Hammer plays the love interest of Chalamet, whose character Elio performs a sexual act on a piece of fruit, which Hammer eventually discovers.

“It’s been five years since that film premiered here, and Luca hasn’t stopped taking us to exciting places,” Johnson said, referring to Guadagnino’s 2022 film Bones and All, a cannibalism romance drama also starring Chalamet.

“Who knew cannibalism was so popular?” she joked.

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