Queer’s Daniel Craig on LGBTQ+ stories & Omar Apollo on being down for his sex scene
by Curated December 6, 2024 · Gay News / Gay Pride / Gay Rights / The Advocate
Author: Tracy E. Gilchrist
“You think he’s queer?” Daniel Craig’s William S. Burroughs surrogate Lee asks his friend Joe about Drew Starkey’s lithe young Eugene in Queeror ayahuasca together, before finally landing on Lee back in Mexico.A24 Daniel Craig as Lee and Drew Starkey as Eugene in Luca Guadagnino’s Queer A24
Though Apollo appears only briefly in the film, the image of his Chimu Bar Guy bedding Lee in a grimy hotel under stark overhead lighting permeates the movie. Queer recording artist Apollo, who says he’s a longtime fan of Burroughs, discusses working on that memorable scene with Craig that depicted real sexual connection between men.
“I got the call and [they] told me about the scene and how explicit it was. I instantly just said yes. I was like, Yeah, of course. It’s Daniel Craig. Of course I’m down,” Apollo says. “I wasn’t really fearful or anything. I was like, It’s kind of my reality. It’s not something that’s new to me,” he adds.
“But it was exciting to do something, especially when it comes to skin and bodily physical contact, It’s nice to trust somebody that shoots those kinds of scenes, so intimate and beautifully. So I trusted everyone on set and it was really easy and fun.”
Watch The Advocate’s interviews with Craig and Starkey and Apollo above.
Read out sibling publication Out‘s review of Queer here.
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Author: Tracy E. Gilchrist
