In Luca Guadagnino's 'Queer,' Craig's character falls for a younger man in 1950s Mexico
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VENICE, Italy – In a clear break from his James Bond past, Daniel Craig brought his latest role to the Venice Film Festival on Tuesday, September 3, playing a drug-addicted gay American in Luca Guadagnino’s new movieThe womanizing of the debonair Bond is long gone as Craig’s character, often drunk and dishevelled, falls for a younger man in 1950s Mexico, with intimate love scenes between the two men that are likely to cause a buzz in the cinema world.“I don’t think about it.
Craig’s wife, the British actor Rachel Weisz, arrived with him in Venice and is expected to be on the red carpet later on Tuesday for the world premiere ofHis character William Lee lives a solitary life in Mexico City, cruising the bars and knocking back hard liquor, before he becomes infatuated with a quiet bisexual, played by Drew Starkey, who joins the seedy U.S. expat community.“It broke the ice with the two of us,” Craig said.
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