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# Daniel Craig talks about “touching, real and natural” gay love scenes in new film, ‘Queer’
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/daniel-craig-talks-about-touching-real-and-natural-gay-love-scenes-in-new-film-queer/
- Published: 2024-09-04T13:00:27.000Z
- Updated: 2024-09-28T16:02:44.000Z
- Description: Daniel Craig attended a photocall for his new film Queer – an adaptation of a novella by American writer William Burroughs – during the annual Venice Film Festival on Tuesday, September 3. The actor, 56, was seen larking around with his co-star Drew Starkey, 30, as they promoted the same-sex romance
- Author: Graham Robson
- Tags: Daniel Craig, queer

**Daniel Craig** attended a photocall for his new film ***Queer*** – an adaptation of a novella by American writer **William Burroughs** – during the annual **Venice Film Festival** on **Tuesday, September 3**.

The actor, 56, was seen larking around with his co-star **Drew Starkey**, 30, as they promoted the same-sex romance movie in which they play lovers.

The photocall comes as Daniel spoke about the frank gay love scenes in *Queer*, telling the Venice Film Festival: ‘We just wanted to make it as touching and as real and as natural as we could.

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Drew Starkey and Daniel Craig at Venice Film Festival

‘There was some choreography in the movie which was a very important part of the movie. Drew and I started months before filming rehearsing the dancing. Dancing with someone is a great icebreaker.

‘You know as well as I do there is nothing intimate about filming a sex scene on a movie set, but we just wanted to make it as touching and as real and as natural as we could.’

Director **Luca Guadagnino**, behind the recent hit *Challengers*, said: ‘Daniel in our first Zoom was adamant that this was going to be a love story first and foremost. We stuck with that – what does it mean to love and to be loved, to be connected and to be disconnected.’

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Queer

In the film, Craig plays an American, William Lee, living in Mexico City who becomes sexually obsessed with a former sailor, Allerton \[Starkey\].

One much talked about scene sees Daniel perform oral sex on Allerton.

Venice Film Festival boss **Alberto Barbera** said he believes Daniel has given ‘the performance of a lifetime’ in *Queer*, and added he’d be surprised if we don’t see the British actor at the **Academy Awards** next year.

It would mark the first ever Oscar nod for Craig.