Queer’s Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey on playing gay roles as straight actors.
Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey, the stars of Luca Guadagnino’s gay drama Queer, have weighed in on whether straight actors should play gay roles.
The upcoming film, which is set to arrive in UK cinemas on 13 December (27 November in the US), is based on the William S Burroughs’ semi-autobiographical 1986 novel and follows James Bond legend Daniel Craig as William Lee, a drunk and drugged-up US expat on the run in 1950s Mexico City.
While on the prowl for his next lover, he spots handsome former serviceman Eugene Allerton (Love, Simon star Drew Starkey).
While Eugene is initially uninterested in William’s embarrassing advances, eventually he relents, and the pair embark on a messy, woozy and explicit romance that ends in a psychedelic dream sequence in the South American jungle.
While the film touches on hidden desires, isolation and the impact of drugs and drink, it’s the sex scenes that are grabbing the headlines and making waves on social media. Part of the reason for that is Craig and Starkey are straight men, playing very explicitly gay roles.
