Daniel Craig is naming no names, but has confessed he’s acted in a lot of ‘terrible f***ing’ sex scenes throughout his long career.
The actor, 56, has smooched a whole host 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 as well as Eva Green, Monica Bellucci and Lea Seydoux in the James Bond movies.
But while promoting his new movie Queer, which features raunchy same sex love scenes, Daniel said: ‘I’ve shot some terrible f***ing love scenes in my career. They’re out there to see.’
He hopes that the scenes in Queer, based on a book by William S. Burroughs and directed by Luca Guadagnino, are a cut above. ‘We’ve gone for that sort of vulnerability . . . and keeping it as real as it possibly can be,’ he said.
Daniel Craig is naming no names, but has confessed he’s acted in a lot of ‘terrible f***ing’ sex scenes throughout his long career (Pictured with Sienna Miller in 2004’s Layer Cake)
The actor, 56, has smooched a whole host 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 wonderful and messy and complicated; and hopefully we’ve managed to stick that on the screen, because that’s what happens in the bedroom.’
He added that he wouldn’t have made the film while he was James Bond – not because of the gay sex scenes, but because he wouldn’t have had the time or ‘headspace’.
‘There was a while when I did other jobs around Bond, and then I stopped because I just didn’t have the kind of headspace to do it. I need to concentrate on one job.’
He added of his wildly lucrative career, which has seen him earn a reported £85 million to play Bond and further massive pay days for the Knives Out films: ‘I don’t have a game plan.
You’ve got to go where you heart goes and let that lead. I’m very privileged to be in a position not to have to work as much as I used to, but if I do the job, I want it to be like this. I want it to be the best thing I can do.’
In the movie Daniel stars as American expat and war veteran William Lee, who has a romance with a younger man, Eugene Allerton (Drew Starkey), a drug addict and discharged Navy serviceman.
Allerton initially rejects Lee’s advances but eventually relents. One particularly frank scene features Daniel performing oral sex.
Venice Film Festival boss Alberto Barbera said he believes Daniel has given ‘the performance of a lifetime’ in Queer, and added he’d be surprised if we don’t see the British actor at the Academy Awards next year.
He’s also had some memorable love scenes with actress Sienna Miller in 2004’s Layer Cake as well as Eva Green (pictured) Monica Bellucci and Lea Seydoux in the James Bond movies
But while promoting his new movie Queer, which features raunchy same sex love scenes, Daniel said: ‘I’ve shot some terrible f***ing love scenes in my career. They’re out 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, are a cut above. ‘We’ve gone for that sort of vulnerability . . . and keeping it as real as it possibly can be,’ he said (pictured with Sienna Miller)
In the movie Daniel stars as American expat and war veteran William Lee, who has a romance with a younger man, Eugene Allerton (Drew Starkey, R), a drug addict and discharged Navy serviceman
Allerton initially rejects Lee’s advances but eventually relents. One particularly frank scene features Daniel performing oral sex
Barbera told a journalist that the actor had ‘a couple of sex scenes that are quite full-on’.
In an interview, Guadagnino commented: ‘Queer will be my most personal film. It’s a tribute to Powell and Pressburger.
‘I’ve seen The Red Shoes at least 50 times and I think they would appreciate the sex scenes in Queer, which are numerous and quite scandalous.’
The novella was penned between 1951 and 1953 but not published until 1985. Much of it was written in the aftermath of the death of Burroughs’ wife Joan Vollmer – who 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 was trying 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.
