Luca Guadagnino’s new film “Queer” opens with a series of tableaux — little still-life images of glasses, trinkets and books. The objects are meant to evoke the lives of its two lead characters, gay men seeking refuge from their pasts and leaning into their desires in 1950s Mexico City. It’s an example, the film’s stars Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey say, of Guadagnino’s keen eye for how to evoke character through the material world. But it’s apparently even more than that too.
“The opening credits?” Craig asks, sitting next to his co-star in a New York photo studio. “Is the sperm still in there?”
“I think so,” Starkey
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