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‘Is the Sperm Still in There?’: Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey on Making ‘Queer,’ the Year’s Most Audacious Love Story
Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey discuss making Luca Guadagnino's 'Queer,' and leaving James Bond and 'Outer Banks' behind for a provocative love story.
On the run after a drug bust and enmeshed in a hard-drinking and edgy crowd at one of his regular watering holes, Lee encounters the beautiful and aloof Eugene Allerton (Starkey), with whom he comes to share both painful intimacies and, well … substances that were once visible in the film’s opening sequence. The Italian-born director brought the actors into his arms — and home — for “Queer”; though the film is set in Mexico, Craig and Starkey rehearsed and shot the movie together at Cinecittà, the famous studio in Rome where Fellini, Rossellini and Visconti all made classics. Craig’s cerebral investigator Benoit Blanc, it was revealed in 2022’s “Glass Onion,” is a gay man living a life as emotionally fulfilled and stable as Lee’s is turbulent and tortured, with a domestic partner played by Hugh Grant in a glancing cameo.
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