Will Lee (Daniel Craig), the protagonist of gay director Luca Guadagnino’s “Queer,” loses control of himself in several ways: taking heroin and ayahuasca,

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.

Luca Guadagnino's Queer is a unique film, a brilliant film, and a deeply and profoundly odd film, and it won't be a movie that everyone loves.

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

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,