Did Timothée actually do the peach scene?

Timothée Chalamet gave an Oscar-worthy performance in "Call Me By Your Name" — but he's increasingly worried about one particular scene involving a fuzzy fruit.

The 22-year-old actor voiced his concerns to Jimmy Kimmel on Thursday night after the late night host questioned if he was worried about what comes next after being nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor in a leading role in for his first leading role.

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And while Chalamet agreed he was worried about that — he was even more worried about that peach thing.

"There's a scene where — I don't know how to describe this. There's a peach, and in life one has to explore sometimes. And the exploration commences," he explained.

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"You say, 'Are you worried?' I'm worried that 50 years from now I'll be signing peaches behind a desk."

Kimmel joked, "That's your vision of hell."

The New York City native said he was glad to get some time with Kimmel before he hosts the Oscars on in order to put in a good word for himself.

Timothee Chalamet's character became well acquainted with a peach in "Call Me By Your Name." (AP)

"Please no peach jokes, please no peach jokes," he pleaded with the host.

In "Call Me By Your Name," there's a now-famous scene where Chalamet uses a peach from his family's villa in Italy to masturbate.

"Call Me by Your Name," directed by Luca Guadagnino, also stars Armie Hammer, Michael Stuhlbarg and Amira Casar. Chalamet also starred in another Oscar-nominated flick this season, "Lady Bird."

The actor, who is the youngest to be nominated in 75 years, is competing against Daniel Day-Lewis, Daniel Kaluuya, Gary Oldman and Denzel Washington for the honor.

"I was struggling with the possibility that you can masturbate yourself with such a fruit," director Luca Guadagnino admitted.

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By Adam Salandra

October 13, 2017

2:58 PM

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By Adam Salandra

October 13, 2017 / 2:58 PM

Call Me By Your Name, the film about a love affair between two young men in the summer of 1983, hasn't even been released in theaters yet, but that hasn't stopped people from already buzzing about the famous peach scene.

The film stars Timothée Chalamet as Elio, a 17-year-old high school student who falls for his dad's 24-year-old intern, Oliver, played by Armie Hammer.

Fans of the book that the film is based on have wondered if its most well-known scene, in which Elio uses a peach to pleasure himself, would appear in the big-screen adaption, and director Luca Guadagnino recently confessed to Out Magazine that it almost didn't.

"I was tempted to remove it from the script," he said. "In the book, it is so strong and explicit that I thought it was a metaphor, something that couldn’t exist in real life."

Guadagnino ultimately decided to keep it in, but felt he needed to try a little experiment in order to properly depict the experience.

"I was struggling with the possibility that you can masturbate yourself with such a fruit," he said. "So I grabbed a peach and I tried, and I have to say—it works."

When it came time to let his star know that the scene was staying in, the director found out he wasn't the only one with a curiosity for the mechanics of peach pleasure.

"I went to Timothée and said, 'We shoot the scene, because I tried it and it worked,'" he recalls. "And he said, 'I tried, too, and I already knew it worked.'"

Discover how it all turned out when Call Me By Your Name arrives in theaters on November 24.