spencerovely:

And this is exactly one of the reasons I love him so much: for his thought process, and for the fact that I feel reassured every time he perfectly articulates what I feel as well. 

While Armie (and others) defend the movie in its technical/ethical fairness, Timmy stays quiet (like his short answer in Quotidien) – and this is why. He repeats many times during press that whatever the audience takes from the film is ‘right in his books’, because the art is open to the viewer’s interpretation. What he says is, you’ve got to watch it first to get a fair judgment, and what the film portrays is pure human emotions and actions made out of love, desire, longing that Luca had so artfully created – and to discount this beautiful process of love by slapping on your jaded societal views about THE S WORD before even watching it is just irrelevant. 

Not to say that the ‘legal age in Italy is 14′ reason is invalid or inadequate (I completely support it), but like, the way Timmy puts it, ah. Yes, I feel like every bone in my body is satisfied by his perspective. That’s exactly my/the point. You just gotta go watch it. Then we can talk.

(taken from the NYTimes Article “How to Come of Age Onscreen? Saoirse Ronan and Timothée Chalamet Know” by Philip Galnes)