Daniel Craig’s ‘Queer’ hits Venice as actor opens up about sex scenes

Daniel Craig has formally jumped into the Oscar race.

The James Bond actor, 56, on Tuesday introduced his new movie “Queer” to the 2024 Venice Movie Pageant, and in line with The Hollywood Reporter, it acquired a 9 minute standing ovation at its premiere. Directed by Luca Guadagnino (“Name Me By Your Title”), the film takes place in Mexico Metropolis and stars Craig as American expat William Lee.

“His encounter with Eugene Allerton, a younger scholar new to the town, exhibits him, for the primary time, that it may be lastly attainable to ascertain an intimate reference to someone,” in line with the Venice synopsis. Drew Starkey stars as Eugene within the film, which is predicated on the William S. Burroughs novel.

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In line with IndieWire’s Ryan Lattanzio, “Queer” options the “most express homosexual intercourse scenes I can bear in mind in any mainstream film,” whereas Vulture’s Nate Jones studies they’re “notably extra express” than these in “Brokeback Mountain” and “Name Me by Your Title.”

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Throughout a press convention in Venice, the primary query pertained to what it was wish to movie the intercourse scenes. A journalist famous that they’re “like nothing we have ever seen earlier than in a mainstream film,” not simply because they’re express however due to the “happiness” on show.