The director detailed his ambitions around the William S. Burroughs novella while the actor known for playing James Bond praised the daring script.

Guadagnino, convinced Craig was right for the role, approached the actor with the script. In Craig, Guadagnino saw someone, he says, who was “open to play.” Within days, Craig, long an admirer of Guadagnino’s films, was in.

The actor stars in Luca Guadagnino’s adaptation of a book by William S. Burroughs, playing an American in 1950s Mexico City who becomes besotted with a younger man.

Daniel Craig may have said a definitive goodbye to Ian Fleming's iconic secret agent, but the character he plays in his latest film turns out to have quite a few interests in common with James Bond including exotic foreign travel, hard liquor, guns and casual sex. That said, Craig's new role will be quite an eye-opener for fans of his 007.

The star kills off his Bond to inhabit a dissolute American expat in Luca Guadagnino’s handsome adaptation of the William S. Burroughs novella.

Daniel Craig is receiving critical acclaim for his role in Luca Guadagnino’s latest film, Queer, an adaptation of the 1985 novel by William S. Burroughs. Craig and his co-star Drew Starkey, as well as Omar Apollo,

One of the first real signs that “Queer” is going to be an unconventional movie is when Daniel Craig in a linen suit saunters through Mexico City during the early ’50s and the soundtrack blasts a song by Nirvana.

Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey give us a behind-the-scenes look at how Luca Guadagnino approached filming the ayahuasca scene in 'Queer'.

One of the first real signs that “Queer” is going to be an unconventional movie is when Daniel Craig in a linen suit saunters through Mexico City during the early ’50s and the soundtrack blasts a song by Nirvana.