Omar Apollo Reveals How He Prepared For ‘Queer’ Sex Scene With Daniel Craig

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Omar Apollo is sure to set pulses racing with his big screen debut as he reveals details about his appearance in Luca Guadagnino‘s Queer.

Ahead of the movie’s Venice Film Festival premiere, the Grammy Award nominee revealed the lengths he went to in order to prepare for his intimate scene with Daniel Craig, whom he praised as being a “vulnerable” scene partner. “I had to get on the soup diet,” he told Interview. “Luca did not tell me to lose weight, but when you’re about to have a sex scene with Daniel Craig, you’re like, ‘Oh, dude, I can’t be looking off.’ I was at 200 pounds, because I’m 6’5. “It’s around where I should be, honestly.

But I got down to 181 when the movie came. I lost 20 pounds because I read in the script that my character had a flat brown stomach.

I was like, ‘Damn, I’m actually not flat right now.’ I had to get it together, and I was on tour with SZA. Luckily, I didn’t have that many lines,” added Apollo.