Armie Hammer scored a Golden Globe nomination _ for best actor in a supporting role in any motion picture _ Monday morning for his performance in the acclaimed "Call Me by Your Name," co-starring Timothee Chalamet, who was also nominated.
Q: I just got off the phone with Timothee, who was saying how much he values your friendship.
A: You make movies and form really intense but short bonds with people _ but this film was a special experience. He's such an amazing and special person that we've kind of kept our friendship up.
Q: Do you feel how much he looks up to you?
A: No, not completely. I've been through the ringer in ways that he hasn't, so I've given advice and pointers. But he's an incredibly emotionally intelligent person, so there are things he's talked me down from too.
Q: Do I hear a child in the background?
A: Yes, that's my daughter, so I'm juggling the phone and making breakfast. Today we went off and it's milk and cereal, which is a treat. Normally, I like to make everybody breakfast, so she thinks cereal is a treat because it's not an omelette.
Q: So you were up already when the noms were announced?
A: I was awake, but just trying to avoid it. I didn't want to be bothered by it or thinking about it _ like, "It's 6:30 and no one is calling!" I was up and putzing around, and then my phone suddenly got deluged. Last night I picked out a couple of scripts I was late on reading and said, "I'm gonna read these and not think about it."
Q: As someone who has been the recipient of a lot of hype, does this nomination feel particularly gratifying?
A: On this project, specifically, it feels particularly gratifying because it's something we all believed in so much. We all made personal and professional sacrifices to go to a small town in Italy and make a movie that costs next to nothing. I poured my blood, sweat and tears into it, so that feels special.
Q: You recently deleted your Twitter account, and people are sad.
A: It's funny _ I feel great not being on Twitter. I feel like I have at least an hour more to my day than just sitting and looking at my cellphone. I am still on Instagram, because I love the visual medium it presents. But Twitter, to me, was becoming more and more like a toxic environment where people go to say not nice things. I was voluntarily subjecting myself to it. People are so massively addicted to it that it really shocks people that you can just get off Twitter!
Q: And it's easier than quitting cigarettes.
A: Or maybe it isn't.
Q: You've been speaking out a lot this award season _ on James Woods, Casey Affleck _ and you recently walked back some comments you made about Affleck. In the wake of all that, do you feel like you're going to approach press differently?
A: Part of me realized that that's not necessarily the best way to handle press. I can get out there and try to make a big, honest point with nuances or subtlety to it, but that's not how it gets treated. They grab one sentence and make a headline out of it. So I should do press for the reason you're supposed to do it _ to talk about your movie, and talk about what you believe in, to an extent. But at the end of the day, I'm not here to tell everyone what I think.
Q: There are a lot of Golden Globes parties. Are you worried that when you go out on the dance floor, everyone will be watching you now?
A: I'm 6-foot-5. Every time I get on the dance floor, period, everyone is looking at me. Will I dance at the Globes? It depends on how much alcohol I consume. If you want me on the dance floor, that's the way to make it happen.
