Daniel Craig spoke candidly about filming sex scenes for Luca Guadagnino's "Queer" during a Venice Film Festival press conference. He said he and co-star Drew Starkey "tried to make it fun."
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"You know as well as I do, there's nothing intimate about filming a sex scene on a movie set," Craig said. "We just wanted to make it as touching, real, and natural as possible. Drew is a great, wonderful, beautiful actor to work with and we had a good laugh. We tried to make it fun."
Based on the William S. Burroughs novel of the same name, “Queer” is set in 1950s Mexico City and follows Lee (Craig), an American expat who “spends his days almost entirely alone, save for a few interactions with other members of the small American community,” according to the official synopsis. “His encounter with Eugene Allerton (Starkey), a young college student new to the city, shows him for the first time that it might finally be possible to create an intimate connection with someone.”
When asked how he got involved with the project, Craig said he's wanted to work with Guadagnino "for a long time."
