We love this sort of playful teasing from straight guys-the grinning suggestion that we might get a swat on the butt or a drunken cuddle as long as we don’t push it too far. “I’ve never experienced a sense of making yourself so accessible and vulnerable.” Then later, of Chalamet: “ grabs my crotch all the time.”
“I’ve never experienced a sense of safety like that,” Armie Hammer says. Over the past few weeks, media coverage of the film adaptation has capitalized on this fascination with ambiguous straight men by other means, featuring interviews where the straight lead actors describe their total comfort with pantomiming gay love on set.
