Luca Guadagnino met Matthias Schoenaerts in 2012, because someone told him that there was this fantastic young Belgian actor who played in a very powerful film called Bullhead - La vincente ascesa di Jacky (2011), which he hadn't seen. Guadagnino was in LA and got a screener of Bullhead and he saw it and thought, 'Oh my god, this guy is really a force of nature.' Schoenaerts happened to be in Los Angeles, and Guadagnino met him. Guadagnino had this meeting with Schoenaerts that was really touching for him because he saw in Matthias the integrity and solidity of a man of great skill and great inheritance, because Matthias's father is one of the greatest European actors of the 70s, Julien Schoenaerts. But according to Guadagnino, Matthias has his own identity as an actor, and has his own way of being. Actor and director met again after Schoenaerts made Un sapore di ruggine e ossa (2012), and they had a sort of aim to work together, so for Guadagnino it was only natural that when they started to cast, he said, 'okay, let's get him to play this brooding character who is always accepting the heat from Harry until he cannot accept them anymore, and unconsciously goes for what he should not do'. And Guadagnino felt that Matthias would be perfect to play Paul.

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