Overview

• In a new Variety cover interview and podcast, Roberts explains she accepted the role after hours-long conversations with Guadagnino made her feel creatively aligned.
• Roberts describes playing a steely professor as exhausting and the opposite of her offscreen nurturing instincts, calling it the hardest part of her process.
• The film centers on the fallout from a sexual-assault accusation on a college campus, with Roberts’ character navigating pressures between the accuser and the accused.
• Guadagnino and castmates Ayo Edebiri, Andrew Garfield, Chloë Sevigny and Michael Stuhlbarg highlight tight-knit collaboration during a whirlwind 28-day shoot.
• After launching at the Venice Film Festival to strong attention and debate over its themes, the Amazon MGM release heads to U.S. theaters in October with a nationwide rollout on Oct. 17.