Episode 23: CALL ME BY YOUR NAME with Richard Lawson

Published: July 14, 2021, 6:10 a.m.

It took us 23 episodes, but we’re finally basking in the shimmering Italian summer heat of Call Me By Your Name. Vanity Fair’s incredibly charming and witty Richard Lawson joins Billy and Kyle talk about the class implications of the food and how it shapes Elio and Oliver’s perspectives about pleasure and work, the ecosystem of labor in the film, the soft boiled eggs, the fish, and, yes, we talk about the peach. And the hosts explore how the film, which Kyle famously dislikes, interrogates how food and the body is a central part of our conceptions of desire, while capping off this week’s episode with a game of Sounds Like a Gay Food to Me.