Daniel Craig won’t name names, but has confessed to starring in many “terrible sex scenes” over his long career.
The actor, 56, has hugged a slew of A-listers on screen, including now wife Rachel Weisz, 54, who he met and fell in love on screen in the 2011 film Dream House.
He also had some memorable love scenes with actress Sienna Miller in 2004’s Layer Cake and with Eva Green, Monica Bellucci and Lea Seydoux in the James Bond films.
But while promoting his new film Queer, which features raunchy same-sex love scenes, Daniel said: ‘I’ve shot some terrible love scenes in my career. They’re there to watch.’
He hopes that the scenes in Queer, based on a book by William S. Burroughs and directed by Luca Guadagnino, will look a lot better. ‘We went for that kind of vulnerability. . . and keeping it as real as possible,” he said.
Daniel Craig won’t name names but has confessed to acting in many “terrible sex scenes” over his long career (pictured with Sienna Miller in 2004’s Layer Cake)
The actor, 56, has cuddled a slew of A-listers on screen, including now wife Rachel Weisz, 54, (pictured together last month)
Daniel and Rachel, who share a daughter, met and fell in love on screen in the 2011 film Dream House (pictured)
“Sex is beautiful and messy and complicated; and hopefully we were able to stick that on the screen, because that’s what happens in the bedroom.’
He added that he wouldn’t have made the film if he were James Bond – not because of the gay sex scenes, but because he wouldn’t have had the time or ‘head space’.
‘There was a while where I was doing other jobs at Bond, and then I stopped because I just didn’t have the space to do it. I have to focus on one job.”
Speaking about his hugely lucrative career, which has seen him earn a reported £85million playing Bond and even more huge paydays for the Knives Out films, he added: ‘I don’t have a game plan.
You have to go where your heart goes and lead it. I’m very privileged that I don’t have to work as much as I used to, but when I do the work, I want it to be that way. I want this to be the best I can do.”
In the film, Daniel plays American expat and war veteran William Lee, who has a romance with a younger man, Eugene Allerton (Drew Starkey), a drug addict and discharged Marine soldier.
Allerton initially rejects Lee’s advances, but eventually relents. In a particularly candid scene, Daniel performs oral sex.
Venice Film Festival boss Alberto Barbera said he believes Daniel gave “the performance of a lifetime” in Queer, adding he would be surprised if we don’t see the British actor at the Academy Awards next year to see.
He has also had some memorable love scenes with actress Sienna Miller in 2004’s Layer Cake and with Eva Green (pictured) Monica Bellucci and Lea Seydoux in the James Bond films.
But while promoting his new film Queer, which features raunchy same-sex love scenes, Daniel said: ‘I’ve shot some terrible love scenes in my career. They’re there to see’ (pictured with Monica Bellucci in 2015’s Spectre)
He hopes that the scenes in Queer, based on a book by William S. Burroughs and directed by Luca Guadagnino, will look a lot better. ‘We went for that kind of vulnerability. . . and keeping it as real as possible,” he said (pictured with Sienna Miller)
In the film, Daniel stars as American expat and war veteran William Lee, who romances a younger man, Eugene Allerton (Drew Starkey, R), a drug addict and discharged Marine soldier.
Allerton initially rejects Lee’s advances, but eventually relents. In a particularly candid scene, Daniel performs oral sex
Barbera told a journalist that the actor had “a few sex scenes that were quite full-on.”
In an interview, Guadagnino said: ‘Queer will be my most personal film. It is a tribute to Powell and Pressburger.
“I’ve seen The Red Shoes at least fifty times and I think they would appreciate the sex scenes in Queer, which are numerous and quite scandalous.”
The novella was written between 1951 and 1953, but was not published until 1985. Much of it was written in the aftermath of the death of Burroughs’ wife Joan Vollmer, whom he shot in the head during a drinking party in Mexico City.
Their four-year-old son was in the room at the time. Burroughs said he tried to shoot a glass off her head, William Tell style, but later changed his story to say the weapon misfired.
He was convicted of manslaughter in his absence after fleeing to the US.