Daniel Craig has given his view on a certain threesome scene while promoting his latest film.
The James Bond actor, 56, plays an outcast American immigrant who becomes infatuated with a younger man (Drew Starkey) in Luca Guadagnino’s Queer.
Set in 1950s Mexico City, the film features a cast of Jason Schwartzman, Henry Zaga, Omar Apollo, and Lesley Manville.
Appearing alongside Josh O’Connor in Variety’s Actors On Actors, the pair discuss the two films Guadagnino has released this year.
“The cool thing about Luca is, he’s not afraid to take some source material and stretch it out and make it into something through his eyes,” O’Connor – who starred in Guadagnino’s Challengers earlier in 2024 – said.
The romantic sports drama follows the story of Tashi Duncan (Zendaya), an ex tennis prodigy-turned-coach, who is married to a champion (Faist) on a losing streak.
Daniel Craig in Queer (A24)
Things get awkward for Tashi when her husband goes up against Patrick (O’Connor), his former best friend and Tashi’s ex boyfriend.
Above all, Challengers will probably be best remembered for Zendaya’s supposed threesome, which, in reality, wasn’t really a threesome.
Responding to O’Connor, Craig said: “Obviously, I love the end of [Challengers]. I love where it goes to: All of that setup, and you get to the moment. Which is what Luca’s about — he wants to hit the moment of love.
“And you see a love between the two guys that trumps everything around it. I’m just a sucker for it. What else is there?”
O’Connor continued: “I think that’s what was going on in this film: Yes, there’s the tennis backdrop, but the desire these three people had for each other that’s torn apart … and there’s an invisible magnet that’s dragging them back together.
“That was definitely a Luca component that was bubbling underneath.”
Craig then said: “The scene in the hotel room, where they don’t have sex with each other, is the biggest c**k tease in movie history.”
The actor also admitted that he didn’t want to star in Queer while Bond was going on.
“I couldn’t have done this while doing Bond. It would look reactionary, like I was showing my range,” he said.
“It’s just not a conversation I wanted. I had it all the way through Bond anyway.
“Could there be this Bond? That Bond? So anything that is going to inflame that conversation? No – life’s too short.”
