James Woods criticized ‘Call Me By Your Name’, gets called out on Twitter

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The cast of Call Me By Your Name has been in Toronto, promoting their film, which was met with widespread critical love. CMBYN is now being talked about for major awards, specifically for the two stars, Armie Hammer and Timothee Chalamet. The story is about a love affair between a 17-year-old (the son of a professor) and a 20-something grad student (played by Armie). The film is set in Italy, where the relationship would not be considered statutory rape – the age of consent is 14. Since the relationship portrayed on screen is homosexual, of course some people are getting their panties in a twist about it, unlike all of those wholesome May-December heterosexual pairings in Woody Allen’s films. James Woods – a “conservative” actor in the vein of Scott Baio – decided to chime in about the film. Woods is 70 years old and he has a gross habit of “dating” barely legal women. His current girlfriend is about 24, but they started dating when she was 19 or 20. So James Woods decided to tweet about the film:

I love nothing more when ancient perverts bang on about “decency.” It would be like Donald Trump talking about the sanctity of marriage (or decency, or sexual assault prevention, or a million other things). So, Armie Hammer jumped in, deliciously:

Which is perfect. And then Amber Tamblyn decided to chime in too:

I BELIEVE AMBER. Anyway, James Woods spent most of last night tweeting. I’m not going to embed that crap, but he was basically saying that Amber was lying and that he actually thinks Armie Hammer is a good actor. He also said words about how he doesn’t care what liberals think. Blah.

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  1. Josie says:

    Has James Woods always been an ****hole?

  2. detritus says:

    Lol, he doesn’t care eh?
    Then why’d he block Armie and Amber?

    Totally believe Amber, and James Woods is trash. I’m assuming he didn’t speak out about Blue is the Warmest Colour?

  3. Nicole says:

    He sure cared enough to tweet about such a “liberal” movie and respond to people.
    And yea I believe amber. If you’re 60 picking up college freshmen I can definitely believe that he tried picking up some 16 yr olds.
    He’s a vile person and I enjoy when people smack him down with his own crap behavior. Much like Joe “I don’t pay child support” Walsh.

  4. Clare says:

    Wow, the a**holes are really coming out of the woodwork this year huh. I suppose they have always been around, but the social and political climate now is such that they have the balls to share their ugliness openly now.

    • frisbee says:

      Is it better that they are out in the open where they can be challenged or do their putrid utterances just reinforce the ideology of other deplorable human beings? I really can’t make my mind up over this one but I tend to veer towards wanting them where I can see them.

    • Nicole says:

      In this case he’s been this way for a while

  5. Louise177 says:

    Amber has no reason to lie. Obviously I don’t know her but she doesn’t strike as the type to make something up.

    • StormsMama says:

      She’s of course telling the truth.
      This would’ve been right around the start of Joan of Arcadia.
      She’s happily married to David cross now and has a great career.
      Her dad is a composer in the industry so she grew up in Hollywood. She literally has no reason to insert herself into this crap except for the fact that it’s true. I used to see her out at restaurants when I was in LA and she was so unassuming and lovely. She is not a fake attention whore.
      James woods is awful. That is all

      • Tiffany says:

        Yep. This must have been a CBS party that it occurred as they both had shows on the air at the same time. Yuck.

      • paranormalgirl says:

        Her dad is an actor as well. Russ Tamblyn. He was on Twin Peaks.

      • frisbee says:

        He was also in the musicals ‘Seven Brides for Seven Brothers’ and ‘West Side story ‘ – they were versatile in the olden days!

      • Jerusha says:

        Great dancer! Been working steadily since 1948 when he was 14.
        And Amber was great in Joan of Arcadia. She recently co-wrote and directed her first film Paint It Black, which got good reviews,

      • tealily says:

        WHY DID I NOT KNOW RUSS TAMBLYN WAS HER DAD???

      • CynicalAnn says:

        @tealily-if it makes you feel any better-I did not know this either. And I absolutely know who Russ Tamblyn is! (I had my mom’s movie magazines from the early 50s and he was in there!)

      • tealily says:

        Haha he was such a heart throb in the day. But seriously… the name is not that common. How did it never occur to us? I feel like a fool!

  6. MarionC says:

    Yeah, he has a home near my town as his mother lives in the area. Everyone knows his penchant for barely legal women, even better if they look underage.

  7. third ginger says:

    I found this hilarious. Hats off to Armie and Amber. It just demonstrates that ultra right-wingers have no self-awareness and no shame. They are also irony proof.

    • frisbee says:

      Decency proof as well, while everybody else enjoys the slap down they just don’t care and I don’t believe it will change their viewpoint – intellectual and moral pygmies such as these don’t grow – sorry but feeling pessimistic today 🙁

      • Lensblury says:

        @Frisbee, me too… very pessimistic. I just read that other Kylie-Jenner-thread about 9-year-old girls thinking about labia surgery, and I am done for today. So sad and sick of this world right now, I could cry.

    • littlemissnaughty says:

      I laughed so hard when I saw this last night. Armie Hammer is my new celeb crush. He looks so vanilla but has so much presence and charm on screen, I love him. And this was perfect.

    • ORIGINAL T.C. says:

      Yeah it’s almost as though these conservatives like making up rules for others to follow that they don’t have to….

  8. Lucy2 says:

    No doubt Amber is telling the truth.
    Woods is disgusting.

  9. lightpurple says:

    James Woods is far worse than Baio.

    • TQB says:

      This is true. Baio is an ass but Woods is an aggressive ass.

    • Moon Beam says:

      He is, but did you see Baio’s wife tweet to the mom of a Sandy Hook victim? Baio retweeted some meme insinuating that the mom of the woman killed in Charlottesville is a professional grief actor and was in a video of Sandy Hook family members. He was taken to task for it and said a retweet isn’t an endorsement and that he didn’t believe it, he was just putting it out there. So a few Sandy Hook parents told him he was irresponsible and gross. Of course he said that liberals were twisting it and making it into something it wasn’t. Well his wife (Rene I think) got into it (she’s worse than he is) and basically told one of the moms that she was sorry her child was dead, but maybe they were better off in heaven than with her as a mother and she’d pray for her. Then later, Rene blocked them all and protected her tweets.
      Woods is nasty and cruel and hilariously hypocritical. He says he has risked his career to tell the truth. Um ok, dude. You could have spent your twilight years working steadily doing character roles. Now you are just a deplorable darling.

  10. Bobafelty says:

    My mom met him in an airport once, was star struck. Said he was with a girl she assumed was his daughter or granddaughter until they publicly started sucking face in front of everyone.

  11. Ruth says:

    CMBYN is super creepy though, the people making excuses for it are even worst.

    • H says:

      @Ruth, is it “super creepy” because its gay or super creepy because it shows a romance between a 17 year old and a guy in his late 20’s. if I’m not mistaken the character Arnie plays is 28 in the book. Anyway, a friend saw it at TIFF and she loved it. Said it would probably get a lot of awards. She raved about Arnie, saying prior to this she thought he was a crap actor (Man From Uncle, Lone Ranger) was he was brilliant in CMBYN.

    • littlemissnaughty says:

      And yet Lolita is a classic. Literature and film are full of these stories. Except they’re usually heterosexual relationships. I don’t think this is a) unrealistic or b) creepy.

      • H says:

        Me either. BTW, I stand corrected. Character is 24 in book not 28. Less of an age gap than previously reported. When I was 17 I dated a 22 college guy, so not seeing the big deal.

      • Aria says:

        Haven’t seen CMBYN, so can’t comment, but Lolita is very, very creepy. And a masterful novel. The two are not mutually exclusive.

      • Norman Bates' Mother says:

        Relationship from Lolita is supposed to be considered creepy, but the age difference in Dirty Dancing is similar (Baby is 17, Johnny is around 25) and it’s seen as a cult love story.

    • BJ says:

      There are 17 year olds in college who are classmates with people in their early 20s.I think it depends on the individual and their experiences.I just met a 17 year old who has lived on his own since he was 15. He is more mature than a 22 year old neighbor of mine who has never left home,paid a bill,etc.

    • detritus says:

      Blue is the Warmest Colour had an age difference greater. mother! has a greater age difference. Every Woody movie ever, but people are only protesting this one…

      I don’t think 17 and 24 is a good thing. I think its gross and unhealthy and abusive. BUT the only time James Woods and his ilk get their panties in a twist is when its about men and boys and gayness.

      • Ruth says:

        Jennifer lawrences character is suppose to be clean into her twenties, she isn’t playing a 17 year old . Stop making excuses

      • detritus says:

        Ruth, chill, i’m one of the few here agreeing with you that its a gross age difference. I’m just pointing out that Woods and his conservative cronies don’t get bent out of shape about the other gross age differences, and pointing out OTHER weird and gross age differences that don’t get the same press.

    • whatWHAT? says:

      do you find Woods’ hetero relationships with women 50-60 years younger than him super creepy too?

      because that’s kind of the issue here, his hypocrisy. just wondering.

  12. Merritt says:

    I believe Amber. In the early 2000s Woods dated one of the young actresses from Days of our Lives. It was creepy then and creepy now.

  13. Tulsi 2020 says:

    Janes Woods is an irrelevant troll.

  14. IssaGoddess says:

    Those “Hollywood conservatives” are the worst.
    The director purposely picked an actor that looks older than his years and one that looks younger than his year to play these roles and it looks kind of creepy, is it wrong to notice that?

    • HadToChangeMyName says:

      No. And the age difference bugs me; not because they’re gay, but because a 17 year old and a 28 year old are at different points in life. Hated the Kylie/Tyga thing and hate this as well. But the movie, itself, is getting lots of kudos for direction and acting.

      • H says:

        In the book, one character is 17, the other 24 (I bought book on Amazon). It’s too bad they didn’t cast Arnie’s character accordingly as in pictures it looks more like an age gap then in the source material.

    • IssaGoddess says:

      Let’s be honest 16-17 year old do date people in their 20’s sometimes (mostly early-mid 20’s). I don’t think this type of relationship is as uncommon as one would like. But I feel like the casting makes the age gap seems way wider like 13-14 and 35. Which…NO. I think it plays into some negative stereotypes. JMOH.

  15. Miss M says:

    I swear that when I met James Woods at a NYFF years ago, I thought he was homossexual.

  16. Insomniac says:

    I believe Amber. And I’ve never loved Armie Hammer as much as I did when I saw that Tweet last night.

  17. Jerusha says:

    He probably gaslighted Sean Young, too.

    • TQB says:

      I am always SO suspicious of how Young got to be the “psycho” in that story. I don’t have a good grasp on the details but Woods’ later life shenanigans make me highly doubt she was the villain he made her out to be.

      • Bridget says:

        She was destroyed by that. And I don’t think exact details have ever come out because she’s barred from talking about it, but he always seemed SUPER sketch.

      • Jerusha says:

        Destroyed personally and professionally. Her career took a nosedive after that. She was/is a good actress and such a beautiful Replicant.

      • Bridget says:

        Between this, her Catwoman stunt, and being kind of a pain in the butt, her career was completely finished. It’s crazy.

    • OG MJ says:

      100%! He ruined her career.

  18. Nancy says:

    I am so glad that Seth killed him off on Family Guy. Because of James Woods High, and all of his guest appearances, I associated the two as like minds. Seth MacFarlane, I think is a genius and as left as one can go, while all this time Woods was this alt right troll. Someone linked me to some of his tweets and the guy is out there. Just never know who will be behind door number 2. Geez.

    • Moon Beam says:

      Oh good. My sister in law didn’t even know James Woods was a real person, she thought he was a Family Guy character. Woods could have continued doing voice work on there and steady character roles, yet he decided to become a twitter troll. He said it’s because Obama was elected and he needed to spread the truth. Yet he gets defensive when people call him a coke head and point out his creepy relationships.

    • Erica_V says:

      Totally ashamed he’s a fellow Rhode Islander. He’s been disgusting for years and only getting worse.

  19. Who ARE These People? says:

    Saw him at an industry function about 20 years ago and even then, he seemed like a creep.

  20. HK9 says:

    I love it when these people who have no decency in their actual lives point fingers at the lack of decency in fictional movies. His habits are well documented and he has no room, no space and no breath to point fingers at anyone or anything, until he decides to climb out of the cesspool of his own life.

  21. Tiffany says:

    I am in love with Armie Hammer now. I have always adored Amber Tamblyn. I have always been creeped out by James Woods, like I have to keep my hand over my drink all night, creeped out.

  22. Marianne says:

    Ugghh Its too bad that James is major a-hole because Hades will always hold a special place in my heart.

  23. Layla Beans says:

    He used to date Heather Graham way back when she was really young.

    Not long after 9/11, he was on Leno telling the story of how he was on a 9/11 dry run flight (legit story). Reported it to the FBI and everything. I wonder if that’s what sent him into the crazy right wing nutcase he is now. The underage girl thing has been around forever though and is totally gross.

    http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=102411&page=1

  24. DUH says:

    I’m an actor

    recently in a scene study class I was taking the teacher started going on this rant about actors and narcissism. His basic argument was that actors couldn’t be narcissists because most of them hate who they are and want to be someone else. He said he could think of one exception though…

    He said in all his years of acting (60+) he has never met anyone as vain and narcissistic as James Wood.(they did some play together) He went on to say that he was incredibly unattractive physically but that he was obsessed with watching himself in the mirror. They would be having a conversation and James would just stare at himself the entire time while they were talking. My teacher concluded by saying that Wood was just a nasty horrible person and when pressed refused to say anymore on the subject.

    So yeahh I totally believe any of the stories that have come up about James Wood. Dude seems cocky and crazy.

  25. Mel says:

    I will never forget that this great advocate of decency once tweeted a picture showing the dead bodies of the victims of the Bataclan attack in Paris as a way to “protest” lenient (according to him) immigration policies.
    This guy is an asshole extraordinaire.
    I was a bit disappointed in Patton Oswalt when they once were at some kind of award show. They argue on twitter (duh) on a pretty regular basis but that night they were all “no hard feelings” and “it’s in good fun”. No it’s not. Not with that guy.

  26. CynicalAnn says:

    1) I couldn’t love Armie Hammer more
    2) Even though I will admit the premise creeped me out (and don’t throw things-I have teen boys-I want them in relationships with people, male or female, that are age appropriate) I am definitely seeing this movie.

  27. Margo S. says:

    James woods can suck my d**k.

  28. magnoliarose says:

    He is a notorious creeper. No teenager is too young for him. I have been around him before, and it wasn’t pleasant. He is like a sleazy reptile, and he had wet lips.

  29. Sylvia says:

    Yeah, I’ve never heard any good stories about James Woods. He’s a disgusting gross asshole is the gist of everything I’ve ever heard about him.

    I also adore Amber Tamblyn and believe her entirely. I’ll always love her for the rap she made for Tyrese (?) when he started emailing her about “making music together” because he thought she was Amber Rose. That was some funny next level trolling.

  30. Babu says:

    And that, people, is a blind angle of epic proportions … nasty creep

  31. CK3 says:

    The novel and film takes place in the 80s and Italy. It’s probably best not to expect it to conform to U.S. age of consent laws in 2017. Heck, from a cursory google search, Italy’s age of consent is 14 and that only rises to 16 when the individual is a person of influence (priests, teachers, etc.). Also, isn’t 17 the age of consent in a bunch of U.S. states? As for the age gap and them being at different parts of their life, isn’t that the point?

    • Otaku fairy says:

      Agreed.

    • Shawn says:

      STILL CREEPY.

      What business does a 24 year old post doc have to do with a high school student, (regardless of gender or sexual orientation), other than to take advantage of the power imbalance and lack of experience of the younger partner?

      The way that this movie is being spun as ‘romantic’ is just sickening. It’s borderline rape and is no better than creep James Wood hitting on a 19 y/o woman. Both James and Armie can shove it up their hypocritical ***es.

  32. Electric Tuba says:

    James woods is a stupid old bloated cooter who snorted most of his brain away by 1999. Why people pay attention to him will remain a mystery until I finish this next cocktail and mosey on home. Pffffft gross old man

  33. gwen says:

    He’s my hero, I look forward to his tweets everyday.

  34. stinky says:

    No argument that Woods a skeez – im old and I know all about it – but isn’t it fair to say his displeasure at the film is simply based around the fact that the kid in question is under 18?
    “Quietly chipping away at the last barriers of decency” doesn’t sound that provocative of a criticism to me. In fact, it sounds kinda spot on. Hypocritical coming from HIM? …well, yes.

    • stinky says:

      …oh wait… Im only just now catching the NAMBLA hashtag 🙁 Ya im not a fan of romanticizing NAMBLA myself either.