Michael Stuhlbarg's 'fragile balancing act' in playing a supportive dad in 'Call Me by Your Name'

Luca Guadagnino didn’t have to work too hard to convince Michael Stuhlbarg to join the cast of his latest film, “Call Me by Your Name,” and not just because the 49-year-old character actor was already a fan of Guadagnino’s “I Am Love.”

“James Ivory had written the script, it was being shot in Northern...