Daniel Craig Says He Couldn’t Have Played ‘Queer’ Role During James Bond Run: ‘It Would Look Reactionary’
variety.comMichaela Zee Daniel Craig said in a recent interview with the U.K.’s Sunday Times that he couldn’t have played his character in Luca Guadagnino’s “Queer” while working on James Bond movies.
In the film “Queer,” based on the 1985 semi-autobiographical novella of the same name by William S. Burroughs, Craig plays William Lee, an American expat who becomes infatuated with a discharged U.S.
Navy serviceman named Eugene Allerton (Drew Starkey). “I couldn’t have done this while doing Bond,” Craig told the Sunday Times. “It would look reactionary, like I was showing my range.” He continued, “Early on with Bond I thought I had to do other work, but I didn’t.
I was becoming a star, whatever that means, and people wanted me in their films. Incredible. Most actors are out of work for large chunks so you take your job offers — but they left me empty.
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