New ‘Live, Laugh, Love’ Just Dropped

Someone get Luca Guadagnino a contract with the T.J.Maxx and HomeGoods décor department, stat, ’cause he just coined a new idiom that could be emblazoned on entryway mats and bathroom walls across America. “People, kiss! Do not make war,” he told Variety in an interview on April 24. The director was speaking to the outlet about his latest film, Challengers, out April 26. It follows a love triangle between Zendaya, Josh O’Connor, and Mike Faist and immediately earned some pretty horny buzz for its three-way kiss between the throuple that was first seen when the trailer dropped last year. “It’s beautiful to kiss people!” he said about the viral scene. “That’s what I want to say.”

Guadagnino is no stranger to directing onscreen kisses. There’s Call Me by Your Name with its aggressively sexy moment in which Timothée Chalamet licked Armie Hammer’s lips in the Italian countryside. In Bones and All, a cannibal road flick co-starring Chalamet and Taylor Russell, the couple smooch in various locales across the country and bond over eating people. So if anyone has a little bit of authority to coin phrases about locking lips, it’s this guy. His doesn’t have the same ring to it as “Make love, not war,” but we’ll give him a pass.

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