Queer Actors Drew Starkey & Omar Apollo On Luca Guadagnino's Vision And Daniel Craig's Energy

Drew Starkey & Omar Apollo smiling during Queer interview

Luca Guadagnino's latest movie, Queer, has been earning high acclaim since premiering at the Venice Film Festival — especially for Daniel Craig's raw and vulnerable performance. Based on William S. Burroughs' unfinished novel of the same name, Queer features many tropes emblematic of the iconic Beat Generation and specific details from the author's life.

Posts &#x2715 Remove Ads ScreenRant interviewed Starkey and Apollo about their initial thoughts when it came to Queer, which could be overwhelming for any actor at first glance. The duo also praised Daniel Craig's onscreen magnetism and generosity as a scene partner, which elevated so many of Queer's best moments.

But I thought the script was beautifully done, and Justin wrote an incredible script that didn't change much from my first read to when we were shooting. It was pretty much all there. I just really wanted to do it. I read it, and I was like,"I want to do this." But Luca reached out to me — well, not him directly, but someone on his side of things hit me up on Instagram via DM. I just happened to check it that day, and they were like,"Luca wants you to be in the movie." I was like,"Is this for real or is it a joke?" But then we were on FaceTime a few days later, and he also sent me the script that Justin wrote and told me what part I would play and everything. I was like,"Yeah, it's cool.

It's like going your whole life and never seeing your own reflection, and then all of a sudden you pass a mirror, or someone presents a mirror to you, and you see yourself for the first time. That would be jarring and hard to grapple with, so I think Lee in a way is serving as a mirror for himself, and that's a scary thing. it's just a matter of if he wants to keep looking, but, but it was challenging.

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