Timothee Chalamet and Taylor Russell play two young cannibals in the 80s in down to the bonea film that comes out this Thursday in Argentina, which won awards at the last Venice Film Festival and made a lot of noise in the run-up to the Oscars.

Despite being a road movie that tells a story of first love, the Italian director Luca Guadagnino -that of call me by your name– placed particular emphasis on the gory tone of the plot, especially when dealing with the diet of its protagonists.

Russell was interviewed by the magazine Entertainment Weekly and revealed what they ate in their flesh-eating scenes with the French-American star. Because, if clarification is needed, those who ate during filming weren’t really human beings.

“It was a combination of those maraschino cherries and dark chocolate sauceand stuff like that,” explained this 28-year-old Canadian girl who is causing a stir for her portrayal of Maren in Bones and all, its original title. “I guess they were really nice about us having tastier sweets,” she joked.

A grieving teenager in the Reagan era

In the film, set in the United States of the 80s governed by Ronald Reagan, Russell plays a teenager who goes in search of her mother, a woman abandoned by her father because of his cannibalism.

“I play this character called Maren, a girl on the verge of adulthood who has a very specific affliction,” she explained of the girl who on that journey meets and falls in love with Chalamet’s character Lee.

“Somehow, that affliction isolated and imprisoned her from most of the people in her life. At the same time, it is a mystery to her what the affliction is, to some extent. She’s on a journey of self-discovery and her question is: Can she live on earth in a way that seems sustainable for the rest of her life?” she mused.

Russell also recounted what convinced her to join the project: “I knew that the script through the lens of Luca would be something completely original and fascinating. I would have played any role in the movie, I just wanted to be in the movie,” she confessed.