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Daniel Craig Says He Couldn’t Have Played ‘Queer’ Role During James Bond Run: ‘It Would Look Reactionary’

Daniel Craig said that he couldn't have played his character in Luca Guadagnino's 'Queer' while working on James Bond films.

Daniel Craig said in a recent interview with the U.K.’s Sunday Times that he couldn’t have played his character in Luca Guadagnino’s “ Queer ” while working on James Bond movies. In the film “Queer,” based on the 1985 semi-autobiographical novella of the same name by William S. Burroughs, Craig plays William Lee, an American expat who becomes infatuated with a discharged U.S. Navy serviceman named Eugene Allerton (Drew Starkey). Elsewhere in his interview with the Sunday Times, Craig dismissed the idea that portraying a gay man while still leading the Bond franchise would have made a statement on masculinity.

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