Daniel Craig calls ‘Challengers’ threesome scene “the biggest cock tease in movie history”

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Daniel Craig has shared some thoughts on the threesome scene in Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers in a new interview alongside Josh O’Connor.The two actors took part in Variety’s ‘Actors On Actors’ series to discuss their work on Guadagnino’s movies – Craig stars in his latest film, Queer, which was released nationwide in the UK and US on Friday (December 13), while O’Connor had a main role in Challengers.O’Connor said: “The cool thing about Luca is, he’s not afraid to take some source material and stretch it out and make it into something through his eyes,” before Craig replied: “Obviously, I love the end of [Challengers].

I love where it goes to: All of that setup, and you get to the moment. Which is what Luca’s about — he wants to hit the moment of love.

And you see a love between the two guys that trumps everything around it. I’m just a sucker for it. What else is there?”O’Connor continued: “I think that’s what was going on in this film: Yes, there’s the tennis backdrop, but the desire these three people had for each other that’s torn apart … and there’s an invisible magnet that’s dragging them back together.

That was definitely a Luca component that was bubbling underneath.”Craig then said: “The scene in the hotel room, where they don’t have sex with each other, is the biggest cock tease in movie history.”O’Connor, who plays Patrick Zweig in Challengers, described scenes of intimacy in film as being “the least sexy scenes you can do,” explaining that he feels more vulnerable working on emotional scenes, while Craig described sex as being “the least interesting thing” in a scene.He added: “The only thing that’s going on is in the heads of these people; if you can’t see that, then the scene is just gratuitous.