Daniel Craig Seeks Human Connection Set to a giddy Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross Score

On November 26, 2024By Littum

If you’re looking for some moody introspection to start your Monday – and who isn’t? – look no further than the new trailer for the William S. Burroughs adaptation “Queer,” directed by Luca Guadagnino and starring Daniel Craig as an expat in postwar Mexico City who explores his homosexuality. Take a look at the new trailer for “Queer” below.

Just watching this thing is an eerie dream set to something by Trent Reznor and Atticus’ lush score.

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“Queer” has been a new cinematic ground for Craig as an actor. Watch him awkwardly bow to introduce himself in a bar to Drew Starkey’s much younger husband. It’s clear he’s in love with Starkey’s character from the start. And what follows is a torrid love affair that features some of the more graphic gay sex scenes you’d see this side of Pedro Almodóvar.

It’s the kind of daring performance that Craig himself admitted to the New York Times that he wouldn’t have attempted when he first portrayed James Bond.

“I wouldn’t have done it,” Craig said if “Queer” had been offered to him 10 years ago. “I was so wrapped up in Bond and what it was, I would have been scared to do something like that.”

“Especially early on with Bond, I thought, ‘That’s enough.’ Stay in my lane.’”

IndieWire’s Ryan Lattanzio gave “Queer” an A rating at the Venice Film Festival this fall. “Luca Guadagnino’s profound and kaleidoscopic new film begins in a post-World War II Mexico City and ends in the Ecuadorian rainforest on an ayahuasca journey that’s part Apichatpong Weerasethakul, part ‘2001: A Space Odyssey,’ but fully ‘ Call’et Me By Your Name director’s own strange, sui generis creation,” Lattanzio wrote. “All sweaty, raw, self-abrasive and profligate, William Lee (Daniel Craig) is an ex-pat who wanders from bar to bar in the Mexican capital in the 1940s, here recreated in Rome’s Cinecittà Studios with the rigorous detail, scope, and strangeness of the warehouse mindscape in Charlie Kaufman’s ‘Synecdoche, New York.‘”

Regarding those sex scenes, Craig said at the press conference at the Venice Film Festival: “You know as well as I do: There’s nothing intimate about filming a sex scene on a movie set. You’re in a room full of people looking at you. We just wanted to make it as touching and as real as we possibly could. Drew was a wonderful, beautiful, great actor to work with. We tried to make it fun.

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