From 007 to ‘Queer,’ Daniel Craig breaks the mold at Venice Film Festival
VENICE — In a clear break from his James Bond past, Daniel Craig brought his latest role to the Venice Film Festival on Tuesday, playing a drug-addicted gay American in Luca Guadagnino’s new movie “Queer."
VENICE — In a clear break from his James Bond past, Daniel Craig brought his latest role to the Venice Film Festival on Tuesday, playing a drug-addicted gay American in Luca Guadagnino’s new movie “Queer."
The womanizing of the debonair Bond is long gone as Craig’s character, often drunk and disheveled, falls for a younger man in 1950s Mexico, with intimate love scenes between the two men that are likely to cause a buzz in the cinema world.
However, Craig, 56, said he wasn’t worried if the sometimes explicit sex sequences made headlines.
“I don’t think about it. No, I mean, what’s the point? You know, I can’t control it,” Craig told Reuters.
Guadagnino, who won international recognition with his 2017 gay coming-of-age story “Call Me by Your Name,” said he hoped the public would look beyond the sex.
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