Daniel Craig Wanted to Make ‘Queer’ Sex Scenes as ‘Touching and Real and Natural’ as Possible: ‘We Tried to Make It Fun’
variety.comDaniel Craig opened up about filming sex scenes for Luca Guadagnino‘s “Queer” during the film’s Venice Film Festival press conference, saying he and co-star Drew Starkey “tried to make it fun.” “You know as well as I do, there’s nothing intimate about filming a sex scene on a movie set.
There’s a room full of people watching you,” Craig said. “We just wanted to make it as touching and as real and as natural as we possibly could.
Drew is a wonderful, fantastic, beautiful actor to work with and we kind of had a laugh. We tried to make it fun.” Based on the novel of the same name by William S.
Burroughs, “Queer” is set in 1950s Mexico City and follows Lee (Craig), an American expat who “spends his days almost entirely alone, except for a few contacts with other members of the small American community,” according to its official synopsis. “His encounter with Eugene Allerton (Starkey), a young student new to the city, shows him, for the first time, that it might be finally possible to establish an intimate connection with somebody.” When asked how he came to be involved in the project, Craig said he had wanted to work with Guadagnino “for a long time.” “We met 20 years ago and said, ‘Hey, we want to work together,’ and we finally did,” he said, adding of “Queer”: “If I wasn’t in this movie and I saw this movie, I’d want to be in it.
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