Drew Starkey got the inside scoop on Daniel Craig’s James Bond

Few people know the behind-the-scenes of the franchise’s films. 007. And the number is even smaller when the source is one of the iconic spy’s interpreters James Bond. The American actor Drew Starkeywho stars in the latest film by Luca Guadagnino, Queer (2024) alongside Daniel Craighad this privilege.

During a conversation with Harris Dickinson for the series Actors on Actorsfrom the Varietythe actor reported that his colleague talked about what it was like to play Bond. “He kind of started talking about it. He was very willing to share,” he said. Starkey. “I got a lot of inside information about it, which is cool.”

To Starkeythe connection with his colleague helped in the execution of the intimate scenes between the two. “I think he’s one of our great actors, really, and you walk in and you think, ‘God, I wonder what he’s like’ and it’s like anyone in this business: you meet them, in the first five minutes it all comes together. undoes and he is Daniel,” said the Dickinson.

“It’s amazing how open and inviting he is and he looks at you as an equal and he’s ready to share his own insecurities and fears about what we’re about to do, so you think, ‘Oh, great, he’s in it with me. .’ And then kind of having a master class on set.”

One specific scene helped the two connect, according to the actor. Starkey shared that they rehearsed for it for months, but filmed the scene over the “course of one night.” Craig also commented on the scene during a participation in The Graham Norton Show.

“I’m not going to give away the game, but there’s a dance in the movie and we were dancing outside on the lot and it was just ground, it was gravel and we had to kind of roll around,” he said. Craig. “I was like, we were going to be cut into pieces. We were naked, like in the scene, and someone very kindly said, ‘This isn’t going to work.’ We would be bleeding, it wouldn’t be very good for the scene, so we came back the next night and someone had put like 50 pounds of coffee grounds on the floor to make it look like dirt, which is great and soft and lovely, but you can absorb it through your skin.”