Queer’s Drew Starkey wore a prosthesis during Daniel Craig’s sex scenes

Drew Starkey revealed whether he wore a prosthesis while filming sex scenes with Daniel Craig for their film Queer.

Starkey, 31, and his co-star Omar Apollo was asked by TIME Magazine for a feature earlier this month about appearing completely naked on screen. While Apollo, 27, would not confirm or deny whether he chose to film his full frontal scenes without any prosthetic assistance, Starkey said he chose not to go completely nude on screen.

When asked a similar question, Craig, 56, explained his reasoning for not doing any full-frontal scenes, saying: “They’re young. They’re young and beautiful.”

Starkey credited movement drills with helping break the ice on set of the NSFW scenes.

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“We had to embarrass ourselves with each other – and have little performances in the choreography with each other,” he added. “It seeped into everything.”

Based on the 1985 novel by William S. Burroughs, Queer follows Craig’s character, Lee, as he flees a drug bust in 1950s New Orleans. Lee subsequently wanders around the city’s clubs and falls in love with a discharged US Navy soldier, Allerton (Starkey).

Despite choosing not to go nude on screen, Craig had nothing but praise for Queer’s sex scenes.

“Sex is wonderful and messy and complicated and hopefully we’ve managed to capture that on screen because that’s what happens in the bedroom,” he shared. Sunday Times in October. “We’ve gone for that kind of vulnerability and kept it as real as it possibly can be.”

The subject of prosthetics, meanwhile, has been brought up more and more recently as actors pull back the curtain to film risky scenes. e.g. Charles Melton was asked to wear a prosthesis for a sex scene in May December.

“It was very professional,” Melton, 33, said Black in December 2023 about filming an intimate on-screen moment between him and the costar Natalie Portman. “All of it. Natalie, (Director) Todd (Haynes) and I met to discuss the scene, go through it and make sure everyone was comfortable.”

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Melton confirmed that he chose to wear a prosthetic body rather than bare himself completely. “There were a few conversations about the prosthesis, about what was realistic and what wasn’t,” he explained.

However, the process proved to be quite tedious for Melton. “I had to wear that prosthesis for nine hours that day,” he recalled at the time. “I didn’t have anything to drink that morning or the night before. It was an annoying process, but still very respectful.”

Meanwhile Cooper Koch got viewers talking about his performance as Erik Menéndez — and he didn’t opt ​​for a prosthetic penis for a nude shower scene.

“Just to say, mine wasn’t a prosthesis,” Koch, 28, continued Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen in October. Host Andy Cohen congratulated Koch for being “very blessed,” to which the actor cheekily said, “Well done.”