Daniel Craig & Drew Starkey reveal the secret ingredient to their big naked dance scene in ‘Queer’
*Caution: Minor spoilers ahead for the plot of Queer.*You probably didn’t expect Queer to have one of the year’s most unforgettable “musical numbers”—then again, when it comes to the films of Luca Guadagnino, he always finds ways to surprise us….In adapting William S.
Burroughs novel of the same name, the director & writer Justin Kuritzkes (reuniting shortly after Challengers) start things out straightforward enough: Following American writer Lee (Daniel Craig) as he whiles away the hours in 1950 Mexico City while becoming hopelessly infatuated with younger ex-pat Allerton (Drew Starkey).Subscribe to our newsletter for your front-row seat to all things entertainment with a sprinkle of everything else queer.But it’s when Lee convinces Allerton to accompany him on to South America in search of a new hallucinogenic that things get downright weird—in a good way.
After finding and taking the drug in the middle of the jungle, the pair begin a trip that culminates in a gorgeous, otherworldly dance sequence, where Craig and Starkey’s naked bodies move in synchronized, body-melding motion.For all the talk of the film’s explicit sex scenes—of which there are quite a few—this is the moment that required the actors to be their most intimate and vulnerable on screen, the physical act that needed the most focus, practice, and guts.
It also needed one other special ingredient… but more on that in a moment.With Queer now playing in select theaters (and opening nationwide Dec.
