Daniel Craig finds James Bond’s masculinity ‘laughable’
The actor explains that he could not have played in Queer, Luca Gudagnino’s gay romance, when he played 007.
5 years after the end of filming Dying can waithis last film in the costume of James Bond, Daniel Craig has clearly turned the page. “I don’t care“, he recently responded to Variety who asked him if he had a preference for the next 007. During the same interview, he seemed not to remember that he had played in five James Bond films (“I’m going to give a wrong answer…“).
The next James Bond will be “a man in his thirties”
Playing James Bond was never a dream for Daniel Craig (as a child he saw himself as Superman or Spider-Man). He was reluctant to accept the role, and later explained how demanding the franchise was, with its endless and grueling filming. We remember his shattering declaration after the release of Spectrumin 2015:
“A new Bond now? I would rather open my veins (…) If I make another James Bond, it will be for the money“
On sale for Queerthe new film by Luca Guadagnino released in the United States (it does not yet have a date here), Daniel Craig returned to the New Yorker on an aspect that bothered him in the character.
“I will say that one of my biggest reservations about playing Bond was the construction of his masculinity. It was often quite laughable, but you can’t make fun of it and expect it to work. We have to assume it.
And then it’s not my job to judge. I mean, really, that’s probably the worst thing you can do as an actor, start judging the character you’re playing.“
Between two Bonds, Craig liked to change registers, but he could not have agreed to play in Queeradapted from the novel of the same title by William S. Burroughs where he plays a homosexual writer who takes refuge in Mexico who falls in love with a young man (Drew Starkey). However, he assures that he does not choose his roles in order to distance himself from Bond:
“When I accepted Bond, I was a person. Today I am someone completely different. I’m not making this film in response to that. I’m not that petty. But I couldn’t have made this film while I was making Bond. It would have been like trying to prove something.”
The trailer for Queer :
