In a clear break with its past as James Bond , Daniel Craig 56, took his latest role to the Venice Film Festival on Tuesday (3). Now, the actor plays a gay American drug addict in the new film Luca Guadagnino “Queer “.
The womanizing, elegant Bond is long gone, and Craig’s often drunk and disheveled character falls in love with a younger man in 1950s Mexico.
However, Craig said he was not worried if the sometimes graphic sex scenes made headlines. “I don’t think about it. No, I mean, what’s the point? You know, I can’t control it,” he told Reuters.
Guadagnino, who gained international recognition with his gay coming-of-age story “Call Me By Your Name” (2017), said he hopes audiences will look beyond sex.
“I think Daniel was so beautifully naked in terms of his soul in this film that that will be the thing that people will connect with, no matter how naked he is on screen,” said the Italian director.
Craig has made five James Bond films. The latest, “No Time to Die,” was released in 2021. He said he had long hoped to work with Guadagnino, swapping the big-budget blockbuster for a small-scale independent production shot entirely on a Rome soundstage.
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This content was originally published in From 007 to “Queer”, Daniel Craig innovates at the Venice Film Festival on the CNN Brasil website.
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