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Dakota Johnson makes risqué cannibal joke about Armie Hammer

Dakota Johnson - Chris Pizzello/2023 Invision
Dakota Johnson - Chris Pizzello/2023 Invision

Dakota Johnson shocked audiences by opening the Sundance film festival with a risqué cannibalism joke about Armie Hammer.

The Hollywood actress was presenting an award to director Luca Guadagino, joking that he offered her the part of the peach in the now infamous scene in Call Me By Your Name.

She said: "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."

In a scene in the film Call Me By Your Name, the characters perform a sex act on the peach.

Hammer's character then eats the peach.

In 2021, several women came forward to accuse Hammer, best known for The Social Network and Call Me By Your Name, of physical and emotional abuse.

One victim accused him of rape, while others released abusive messages sent by the actor in which he suggested dominating, raping and cannibalising them.

“I am 100 per cent a cannibal. I want to eat you.” Hammer apparently wrote in a message to Texan businesswoman Courtney Vucekovich, one of the alleged victims.

Speaking at the Sundance film festival, Johnson said: “It’s been five years since that film premiered here, and Luca hasn’t stopped taking us to exciting places," referring to the director's new film "Bones and All" about two cannibal lovers.

She continued: “Who knew cannibalism was so popular?”

Dakota Johnson presents an award to Luca Guadagnino - Vivien Killilea
Dakota Johnson presents an award to Luca Guadagnino - Vivien Killilea

Hammer who until 2020 was married to the TV chef Elizabeth Chambers with whom he has two young children, has consistently denied all allegations of rape and sexual abuse and has stated his interactions with women were consensual.

Following his breakout in Call Me By Your Name opposite Timothée Chalamet, he was nominated for a slew of awards and appeared on the cover of GQ billed as a “leading man”.