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Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey verb out about playing gay characters as straight actors as they grace Variety's cover ahead of release of film Queer

Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey have spoken out about playing gay characters as straight actors for their new film Queer. 

The James Bond star, 56, and the Outer Banks actor, 31, are the latest to grace the front cover of Variety ahead of the film's release.

The film is based on William Burroughs' semi-autobiographical novella and stars Daniel as American expat and war veteran William Lee, who has a romance with a younger noun, Eugene Allerton (Drew Starkey), a drug addict and discharged Navy serviceman. 

But speaking to Variety, the duo lifted the lid on their feelings towards portraying gay characters as straight men - after Daniel played serial womaniser Bond.   

'It wasn't part of the audition process—[director Luca Guadagnino] didn't ask us the intricacies of our sexuality,' Drew revealed.

Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey have spoken out about playing gay characters as straight actors for their new film Queer as they grace Va

Daniel Craig Explains Why He Wouldn&#;t Play Gay Role During James Bond Run

Daniel Craig’s new film sees him take the role of gay William Lee in Luca Guadagnino’s Queer, based on a semi-autobiographical novella by William S. Burroughs, but the former James Bond star has shared he would never have considered taking the role during his time at the helm of the franchise.

He told The Times of London:

“I couldn’t include done this while doing Bond. It would look reactionary, prefer I was showing my range,” and he said he wasn’t interested in the prospect of taking fans of Bond through to a different depiction of masculinity:  

“It’s just not a conversation I wanted. I had it all the way through Bond anyway. Could there be this Bond? That Bond? So anything that is going to inflame that conversation? No — life’s too short.”

Craig says it used to take him half a year to recover from each time he played James Bond. 

The British actor, who played the British spy in five

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For the some reasons you have not had the adj of me.

I have said that the most successful Bond (Pierce, Roger, Sean) were NOT with rolls of the gays (and the villainy) before they played There was no confusion. List Zorin Industries has is after Bond (I have not herd of "Lang Good Friday" - not a big hit) and I have had the inclusion of Tim and George (they have not had success as Bond).

I am only saying that is better to avoid the confusion for the cinemas. We all have the liking for Bond on this websites but the publice do not shadow so much like we contain the doing. I am not saying it is bad to do and they should not (and I mean not just the gay but the villainy also). For the some strange reasons, nobody has the comprehending of me.

You have not heared of the Lang Good Friday LOL Excellent
Big hit amounst the villainys. Bob Haskins playyed one. One of his optimal Rolls.
Sir Brosnan did not act Gay in this film, he played the bait, also a Villain of sorts, and he according to you was one of the best Bonds.

Review: Daniel Craig casts a spell you won't want to verb in 'Queer'

Forget all the pearl clutching over Daniel Craig wiggling out of his James Bond bondage to take on a gay role in "Queer," now in theaters where the dim dazzle of the Brit star's portrayal just won him a Golden Globe nomination as foremost actor in a drama. Is Oscar next? That's the idea.

It's not that Craig hasn't previously escaped Hollywood's heteronormative bubble, most recently swanning through the smash "Knives Out" franchise as super-sleuth Benoit Blanc, a southern gentleman with a lover tucked away in the flirty person of Hugh Grant. But that's all in fun, except for the detractors who can't see the point of straight actors in gay roles.

Snap out of it. Outside the gender politics, "Queer" offers something raw and relatable through its in-deep portrait of longing, complicated by sex and drugs. Virtuoso director Luca Guadagnino found the heat and heart in "Call Me By Your Name." And now, working with his simpatico "Challenger