Daniel Craig, ‘Outer Banks’ star get frisky in steamy ‘Queer’ trailer

Daniel Craig and Outer Banks actor Drew Starkey are in Call Me By Your Name mode in the first trailer for Queer, the film from Challengers director Luca Guadagnino that’s based on the unfinished William S. Burroughs novel of the same name.

The footage follows the James Bond veteran as William Lee, a stand-in for Burroughs himself, beginning in 1950s Mexico City. He frequents bars, enjoys one-night stands with local gentlemen, and maintains a healthy heroin dependency.

“It was a wise, old queen who taught me that I had a duty to live, to conquer hate with knowledge and sincerity and love,” Lee says in the footage. “The difficulty is to convince someone else he is really part of you.”

Lee becomes infatuated with Eugene Allerton (Starkey), a bisexual expat former soldier. The two strike up a relationship — and by the looks of some of the shots in the trailer, a pretty intoxicating one — that leads both men on a trip (literally and of the hallucinogenic variety) to Latin America in search of a drug called yage (a.k.a. ayahuasca) that Lee hopes will unlock telepathic powers.

“I want to talk to you…without speaking,” Lee whispers longingly to Eugene.

Queer, which is also adapted by Guadagnino’s Challengers scribe Justin Kuritzkes, premiered first at the Toronto International Film Festival before hitting up the New York Film Festival. During an event for the latter in early October, Starkey recalled Guadagnino saying during one of their first table reads, “It’s not a story of unrequited love, it’s a story of un-synchronized love.”

“I was fascinated both by the writing of Burroughs,” Guadagnino said at the same event. “In fact, after I read Queer and I discovered Burroughs through Queer, I went through all of his canon in the years afterwards. But probably the thing that really was fascinating to me…was that this is a very profound love story.”

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The Queer trailer also previews various roles played by Lesley Manville, Jason Schwartzman, Henrique Zaga, and Omar Apollo. The film will open in theaters Nov. 27.