The director detailed his ambitions around the William S. Burroughs novella while the actor known for playing James Bond praised the daring script.

Guadagnino, convinced Craig was right for the role, approached the actor with the script. In Craig, Guadagnino saw someone, he says, who was “open to play.” Within days, Craig, long an admirer of Guadagnino’s films, was in.

The star kills off his Bond to inhabit a dissolute American expat in Luca Guadagnino’s handsome adaptation of the William S. Burroughs novella.

Daniel Craig is receiving critical acclaim for his role in Luca Guadagnino’s latest film, Queer, an adaptation of the 1985 novel by William S. Burroughs. Craig and his co-star Drew Starkey, as well as Omar Apollo,

One of the first real signs that “Queer” is going to be an unconventional movie is when Daniel Craig in a linen suit saunters through Mexico City during the early ’50s and the soundtrack blasts a song by Nirvana.