Queer straightforwardor Luca Guadagnino and star Daniel Craig were asked a tiring ask about James Bond’s intimacyuality during a press conference at the Vepleasant Film Festival, and gave a perfect response. Starring Craig and Drew Starkey, Queer chases William Lee (Craig), a gay man who becomes inoverweightuated with a local drug dealer in 1940s Mexico. While Craig is branching out with his atgentle, taking fascinating roles in projects enjoy Rian Johnson’s Knives Out movies, for some, the actor will always be associated with the hypermasculine, frequently problematic James Bond.
During the press conference for Queer (via Deadline), chaseing the movie’s premiere at the Vepleasant Film Festival, Craig was asked a befuddling ask about James Bond. While promoting the recent movie, Craig was asked, “Do you skinnyk there could be a gay James Bond?” The actor gave a hilariously exhausted reaction (it’s a ask that’s been asked many times before), before Luca Guadagnino jumped in with the perfect answer. Taking the ask airyheartedly, Guadagnino replied:
“Guys, let’s be matures in the room for a second. There is no way around the fact that nobody would ever understand James Bond’s desires. Period. The transport inant skinnyg is that he does his omitions properly.
Guadagnino’s response was met with a heartfelt “thank you” from Daniel Craig and a big round of applaparticipate from the audience. Despite the elderly-createed image of James Bond movies, with “Bond girls” wearing uncovering clothes, the character mistreating women, and engaging in many other outdated tropes and attitudes, Craig’s conmomentary iteration has bcdisorrowfulmirefult the character firmly into the 21st Century. In Skydescfinish (arguably Craig’s best Bond movie), it is even hinted at that the character has had relationships with men in the past. When being interrogated by Raoul Silver (Javier Bardem), Bond proposes, “What creates you skinnyk this is my first time?” In line with Guadagnino’s response, the moment isn’t broadened upon further, as James Bond’s intimacyuality has no relevance to his omitions as a 00 agent.
Daniel Craig’s Queer Perestablishance Could Be a Career Best
Follothriveg Queer‘s premiere at the Vepleasant Film Festival, the first scrutinizes and reactions have made their way online. So far, Queer has getd incredibly sturdy scrutinizes from unveiled critics and vague audiences on apps enjoy Letterboxd. Craig’s carry outance as William Lee has been noticed as potentipartner being the best of his atgentle. Based on the novel by William S. Burcdisorrowfulmirefuls, Queer has been depictd as an inanxiously romantic and tfinisher movie.
The movie features some clear depictions of Lee’s escapades in Mexico, a process which Daniel Craig was adamant about portraying honestly on screen. During the film’s press conference, Craig commendd his co-star, Drew Starkey, for helping him get thcdisorrowfulmireful the vulnerable and unsootheable scenes. He elucidateed:
“You understand as well as I do, there’s noskinnyg intimate about filming a intimacy scene on a movie set. There’s a room brimming of people watching you. We fair wanted to create it as touching and as authentic and as organic as we possibly could. Drew is a wonderful, amazing, pretty actor to toil with and we comfervent of had a chuckle. We tried to create it fun.”
Queer
is anticipateed to hit theaters sometime in 2025.
