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<\/p>\nArmie Hammer Plays Gay Again in the Upcoming Film \u2018Final Portrait\u2019 \u2013 TRAILER<\/b>
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Armie Hammer plays gay<\/a> again in his follow-up to Call Me By Your Name<\/em>.<\/p>\n In Final Portrait<\/em>, Hammer plays writer and art lover James Lord, who as a 22-year-old officer in the U.S. Army intelligence service, befriended\u00a0figures of the postwar French literary and artistic elite after arriving in Paris on a three-day pass.<\/p>\n Final Portrait<\/em> deals with his friendship with artist and sculptor Alberto Giacometti, and Giacometti\u2019s attempts to capture Lord\u2019s portrait.<\/p>\n What isn\u2019t captured in the film\u2019s trailer are other aspects of Lord\u2019s personality, as told by The Telegraph in Lord\u2019s obituary in 2009<\/a>:<\/p>\n On his return to Paris in 1947, having left his American university without a degree, Lord resumed his acquaintance with Picasso. Although he had ambitions to become a novelist, Lord devoted most of his time and energy to his boyfriends, throwing and attending parties, buying paintings, travelling in Europe and befriending artists, aristocrats, flamboyant dealers, unscrupulous collectors and various shady types from the Parisian demi-monde.<\/p>\n For most of his life he kept a daily journal, written up at the end of each day in \u201ca fat, black oilcloth notebook\u201d. In it he carefully recorded (often verbatim) conversations with the clever, glamorous, talented and often indiscreet people with whom he mixed.<\/p>\n \u201cMy friends say I am secretive and devious,\u201d he wrote in the preface to\u00a0Picasso and Dora<\/i>. \u201cThey are right.\u201d<\/p>\n Final Portrait opens on March 23 in New York and L.A..<\/p>\n The post Armie Hammer Plays Gay Again in the Upcoming Film \u2018Final Portrait\u2019 \u2013 TRAILER<\/a> appeared first on Towleroad<\/a>.<\/p>\n