While promoting Call Me By Your Name in 2017 on Jimmy Kimmel Live, the actor shared an anecdote about their time shooting the film in Italy. He said he attempted to order a steak in Italian during dinner but fumbled it so badly that the restaurant served him a fully raw steak that he said looked like it had “never seen a heat source.” Instead of sending it back, he claimed he was so ashamed that he ended up eating an “entire raw steak.” He shared a photo of it at the time on Instagram and captioned it: “My Italian is obviously a little rusty because they just brought me a raw steak... definitely gonna eat it.”