Jeremy Allen White Cast in Romantic Netflix Show Based on Call Me by Your Name Author’s Novel

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Jeremy Allen White Cast in Romantic Netflix Show Based on Call Me by Your Name Author’s Novel

Jeremy Allen White has been cast in Enigma Variations, a new Netflix limited series that adapts André Aciman’s novel of the same name.

Aciman is known for writing 2007’s Call Me by Your Name, which director Luca Guadagnino adapted into a feature film starring Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer in 2017. His Enigma Variations book was published in 2017.

According to Variety, Netflix is now turning Enigma Variations into a limited series that comes from writer, executive producer, and showrunner Amanda Kate Shulman.

White, known for starring in The Bear, will star as Paul in the series.

What is Enigma Variations with Jeremy Allen White about?

The description of the novel reads, “‘Enigma Variations’ charts the life of a man named Paul, whose loves remain as consuming and as covetous throughout his adulthood as they were in his adolescence. Whether the setting is southern Italy, where as a boy he has a crush on his parents’ cabinetmaker, or a snowbound campus in New England, where his enduring passion for a girl he’ll meet again and again over the years is punctuated by anonymous encounters with men—whether he’s on a tennis court in Central Park or on a New York sidewalk in early spring. Paul’s attachments are ungraspable, transient, and forever underwritten by raw desire. Ahead of every step Paul takes, his hopes, denials, fears, and regrets are always ready to lay their traps. Yet the dream of love lingers. We may not always know what we want. We may remain enigmas to ourselves and to others. But sooner or later, we discover who we’ve always known we were.”

Additional casting has not been announced at this time. Oliver Hermanus will direct and executive the show. White and Aciman also both serve as executive producers.

A release date for Enigma Variations has not yet been announced by Netflix.