Luca Guadagnino would obviously rather talk about his movie with Daniel Craig (Queer) than somebody else's (James Bond)
The press conference at a film festival can be a place of thoughtful reflection on a film’s themes and challenges, or a place where Cate Blanchett gets asked what she’ll wear on the red carpet. With Luca Guadagnino, you never know what you’re going to get: his films are lush and transgressive, but in interviews, he’s just as likely to talk about that as to go on a tangent about the beauty of his lead actor’s ears. Nevertheless, the filmmaker knows when to draw the line.
A journalist asks Daniel Craig if he thinks there will ever be a gay James Bond, and Luca throws up his hands. “Guys, let’s be adults in the room for one second.”Guadagnino had every right to shut that line of conversation down, given that this was a press conference for his movieand not anything Bond related.
More importantly, Guadagnino used the opportunity to praise Craig, saying he never expected that the actor would sign on for the adaptation of William S. Burroughs’ novel. But “he said yes. And the yes was a definitive yes, he’s one of the greatest actors. It’s a privilege to work with someone like him,” the auteur gushed. “The reason I did the movie is because of this great man here. I’d wanted to work with him for a long time. We met 20 years ago and said maybe we should work together.
Similarly, Craig shared, “I meant to work with Luca Guadagnino for a long time and this is the kind of film I want to see and make, especially due to its challenging nature.”star continued, “In the research process I watched a lot of interviews by William Burroughs, who appeared so deep and measured. I thought that that couldn’t be him, especially not the Burroughs who wrote the emotional hump that is Queer.
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