Outer Banks star Drew Starkey reminisced on his time filming opposite Daniel Craig in Luca Guadagnino‘s upcoming period romance drama Queer, describing his co-star as “game for anything” and reflecting on working with a “dream” director.
In a new Q&A moderated by fellow co-star and alt-pop/R&B musician Omar Apollo for Interview magazine, Starkey gave behind-the-scenes tidbits on the film shoot, including how “fun” doing ADR (automated dialogue replacement, a post-production process) was for the sex scenes he shot with Craig. “It’s always exertion and breaths and groans,” Starkey said. “Just you in a booth alone doing that, you feel like you’re in an insane asylum.” Starkey, who hails from North Carolina and first broke out playing the conniving and privileged Rafe in Netflix’s teen treasure hunt soap, described the experience as a masterclass in filmmaking, saying Guadagnino was “on a short list of dream directors” he wanted to work with.
Acting alongside Craig, he added that he “could have thrown all my years of acting school out the window.” “[Craig is] so fucking good at every aspect of his craft, just homed in every day,” Starkey said. “And he’s such a weirdo, dude … He’s absolutely fucking incredible in this film.
He’s really shattering … Very vulnerable, because as an actor, he could give a shit, dude. He’s the most punk person. He’s game for anything.
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