Chloë Sevigny: Luca Guadagnino "Gave Me a Stink Eye" for panting in the cannibalistic scenes of "Bones & All"

Chloë Sevigny may have starred in 'American Psycho,' but it was the cannibal sequences of 'Bones and All' that really shook her to the bone. Yet director Luca Guadagnino did not have it.

Sevigny told the magazine that the 'Suspiria' author gave him the 'stinky eye' at the world premiere of 'Bones and All' at the 2022 Venice Film Festival due to his loud gasps in theater. "Bones and All" centers on a couple of cannibals, played by Timothée Chalamet and Taylor Russell, who hunt wanderers to quench their thirst.

"The first time I saw it, I was so vocal, but I'm also a very vocal movie buff," Sevigny said. "I'm one of those people in the theater who gasps and screams. Even in Venice, I gasped during one of the cannibal scenes, and Luca [Guadagnino] turned around and gave me a stinking eye.

Sévigny said, "I was like, 'Oh my god. Wait until you screen this in New York and you have New Yorkers in the theater, then it's really going to come to life.'"

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Sevigny noted that his small role included a voiceover and "a few grunts" while keeping his particular shocking streak a secret. "Weirdly, Luca texted me. He's like, 'I'm in the Midwest doing this movie. I have a small but essential role. Would you like to come do it?' Sevigny said how she came to play in the project. "And I was like, 'I'd come for a line for you. "Then I got the script. I was like, 'I don't even have a line.'"

She joked, "And I was like, 'That motherfucker, again.'"

The film will premiere on November 23 in theaters and screens at the 2022 New York Film Festival, following its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival. The "Bones and All" ensemble cast includes Mark Rylance, Michael Stuhlbarg and "Halloween Ends" writer-director David Gordon Green. "Bones and All" is written by "Suspiria" scribe David Kajganich and adapted from the 2015 YA novel by Camille DeAngelis.

Director Guadagnino told IndieWire that "only Timothy can play that role" in a cannibalistic love story that clearly doesn't belong in the horror genre.

"I think 'Suspiria' was aggressively provocative. I think this one is much more serene in its sense of self," Guadagnino previously said. "My real hope is that audiences don't dismiss the film as a provocation because it deals with a taboo such as cannibalism."

Guadagnino continued, "With 'Bones and All', I wasn't at all interested in shock value, which I hate. I was interested in these people. I understood their moral struggle very deeply. I understood what was happening to them. I'm not here to judge anyone. You can make a movie about cannibals if you're there in the struggle with them, and you don't codify cannibalism as a horror topic or tool."

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