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‘Scripts like this do not come alongside fairly often’ – Luca Guadagnino and Daniel Craig on Queer

By Editorial Board Published December 20, 2024 6 Min Read
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‘Scripts like this do not come alongside fairly often’ – Luca Guadagnino and Daniel Craig on Queer

Daniel Craig says he would bounce on the probability to work with Luca Guadagnino once more.

The English actor closed the guide on his chapter of taking part in James Bond in 2021 and has since been fairly selective in his creative selections.

In Queer, he performs William Lee, a fictional character based mostly on the actual lifetime of his creator William S Burroughs.

Impressed by the 1985 novella of the identical identify, it follows Lee who’s on the pursuit of affection in Nineteen Fifties Mexico Metropolis.

“My career has been quite long and varied, and I’ve done all sorts of things and to expect a script like this to come along at this stage in my life is just a little bit too much [to ask] really,” Craig says.

“I guess I have to be specific about [choosing roles in the future] because scripts like this just don’t come along very often.”

He provides: “My expectations are quite low now because I can only work with him to get better.” Turning to Guadagnino he says, “I mean, you know, if you ask me to do something, I’ll do it.”

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Craig performs William Lee, who’s in pursuit of affection in Nineteen Fifties Mexico Metropolis. Pic: Mubi/A24

Guadagnino’s cinematic bucket listing

It has been a busy yr for Guadagnino. In April, he launched the tennis drama Challengers starring Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist.

Tipped for awards success over the approaching months, the extreme sports activities romance has been shortlisted for finest authentic rating and authentic track with nominations being revealed for the 97th Academy Awards on 17 January.

Zendaya, Mike Faist and Josh O'Connor in Challengers. Pic: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures

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Zendaya, Mike Faist and Josh O’Connor in Challengers. Pic: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Footage

Queer takes a slower tempo. Virtually totally shot on a soundstage, Guadagnino sees the movie as a “box ticked” in his journey as a filmmaker.

“I’m proud of the idea of the outcome of this. We could play with the tools of cinema fully,” he says.

“When I got the book when I was like 17, 18, I also wrote a draft of the script, and I remember that I put a note to myself that it had to be shot entirely on stage because I immediately realised that Burroughs is a great writer of imagination and his own imagination.

“So I by no means thought even remotely that by approaching the mise en scene of a Burroughs guide, you could possibly do a sensible film.”

Referring to choosing a straight actor to play a gay man, he says “the depth that Daniel Craig brings is profound”.

“It is fairly insulting, as a gay man myself, to think about the likelihood that casting a gay man to play the position of Lee would make it extra actual, as if one individual is outlined totally by their gender identification or their sexuality.”

Pic: Mubi

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Craig mentioned he had no doubts about taking up the position. Pic: Mubi/A24

Movie banned in Turkey

The movie itself garnered publicity in November after Turkish authorities banned the movie from being proven at Mubi Movie Pageant hours earlier than the occasion was resulting from start.

Reflecting on the second, Craig says it inadvertently “gave us lots of free advertising” but it surely was a pity for the “other filmmakers who were going to show their movies” there.

In the meantime, Guadagnino nonetheless questions the rationale behind the robust response to the movie.

“I am still wondering whether they had seen the movie and decided to censor it or not,” he says.

Pic: Mubi

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Turkish authorities banned Queer from being proven at Mubi Movie Pageant hours earlier than the pageant began. Pic: Mubi/A24

The pageant as a substitute strikes to Milan, however the pair hope Turkish audiences will obtain the movie and make their very own selections.

Initially that means unusual or peculiar, the connotations of the phrase queer have modified within the 40 years between the novella being written and Guadagnino bringing the function to the display screen.

Craig says he does not consider the phrase queer has “got anything to do with sex, it’s a state of mind, it’s a feeling”.

“Queer can mean so many things. I mean, in Italian, the book was called Diverso which is different.”

He provides: “I don’t know if it’s been reclaimed, I can’t speak to that but it’s a beautiful word and it’s all the connotations that go along with it are sort of deeply personal to a lot of people.

“It has been used as a slant, as a derogatory phrase. Language is at all times to be reclaimed, and it goes in cycles and each 10 years it is reclaimed once more.

“So I’m sure in 10 years’ time it’ll mean something else.”

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