Timothee Chalamet at the 79 Venice International Film Festival 2022

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“Bones and All” starring Timothée Chalamet and Taylor Russell is an old-fashioned love story and road movie with a twist – the star-crossed protagonists are cannibals struggling to live with their horrific affliction.

“I feel like it has been one of the weirdest parts of my career,” Chalamet told Reuters ahead of the movie’s premiere on Friday at the Venice Film Festival.

The picture reunites Chalamet with director Luca Guadagnino, the Italian auteur behind “Call Me by Your Name”, the 2017 gay coming-of-age-film that helped propel the young U.S. actor to international stardom.

Since then, Chalamet has played a string of often intense, troubled young men. But “Bones and All” takes things several stages further as he hooks up with Russell and the pair cross the U.S. Midwest wrestling with, and sometimes succumbing to, their inner demons.

Chalamet said he hoped the audience would look beyond the gore and see the humanity at the heart of the story.

“I hope it doesn’t get misconstrued as a horror film or a cannibal film, or a film that is fake edgy that is trying to shock you,” he said.