Omar Apollo goes full-frontal in ‘Queer’ & more early reactions to Luca Guadagnino’s explicit gay odyssey
Queer, thanks to the arrival of the latest feature from Call Me By Your Name and Challengers filmmaker Luca Guadagnino.Based on a novel of the same name from acclaimed writer William S.
Burroughs, the drama finds Daniel Craig playing Lee, a lonely American drug addict living in Mexico City in the ’50s who becomes infatuated with a young student (Outer Banks‘ Drew Starkey).We’ve been following the project pretty closely (especially after Guadagnino teased the film’s sex scenes would be “numerous and quite scandalous”), devouring every morsel of information we could find since it was announced in late 2022.
And, now that Queer has finally debuted at the Venice Film Festival, we are being fed.Subscribe to our newsletter for your front-row seat to all things entertainment with a sprinkle of everything else queer.Ahead of the film’s world premiere, co-stars Drew Starkey and Omar Apollo—the pop star whose role was widely speculated before being confirmed earlier this summer—linked up for a conversation in Interview magazine that certainly raised some eyebrows.In the piece, the pair sing each one another’s praises and clearly became fast friends on set, bonding over things like being outsiders in the industry and—oh yeah—filming intimate scenes with Craig.A post shared by Interview Magazine (@interviewmag)That’s right: Apollo’s going to be getting in on that action, too!
When rumors began to swirl that the singer-songwriter had been spotted on the set of Queer, it was unclear whether he would just be making a cameo or his proper acting debut.
