"Armie Hammer could have eaten me": Dakota Johnson's free little joke that made the Sundance Festival laugh

His joke, to say the least, caught the Sundance Film Festival audience.

Dakota Johnson was then on stage as part of the Institute's Inaugural Opening Night: A Taste Of Sundance event, held Thursday, January 19 in Park City, to present the International Icon Award to Luca Guadagnino.

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The role of fishing

The opportunity for her to joke about Armie Hammer, hero of his film

(2017), and the scandal around the sexual practices of the actor, accused of having cannibalistic inclinations.

"It was here at Sundance, in 2017, that the public was able to discover Luca's talent for storytelling, began Dakota Johnson during her speech.

The epitome of that is

.

Unfortunately, I was not in this film.

Before continuing: “Luca had asked me to play the role of “peach” (

's note), but our schedules were incompatible.

Thank God, because then I would have been one of the women Armie Hammer tried to eat."

The actress also joked about the fact that Luca Guadagnino subsequently shot

(2022), a film … about cannibalism.

“Who knew cannibalism was so popular?”

"It's been five years since this film was screened here, and Luca hasn't stopped surprising us," she said.

Who knew cannibalism was so popular?

A speech acclaimed by the amazed crowd.

Armie Hammer had indeed found himself in the eye of the storm when messages in which he exposed his cannibalistic fantasies to his former conquests had resurfaced on the web.

Some of them accuse him of sexual assault.

For his part, Luca Guadagnino has always denied that

was inspired by the story of Armie Hammer.