I also wanted to say thank you.
DANIEL CRAIG: That’s my pleasure.
[Laughs]
That I’m pretty sure of.
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How happy was he every day on set to be making this?
Because it seems like two huge dreams of his came together.
DREW STARKEY: He led with incredible passion for it.
Just an infinite kind of curiosity every day.
So, it was great to just be by his side through it.
CRAIG: I think that for all of us in different ways.
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This was all studio-based, and I loved the fact that it was studio-based.
It meant that a lot of the magic that’s in the movie is happening in camera.
It’s all of those things.
Lee, who recounts his life in Mexico City among American expatriate college students and bar owners surviving on part-time jobs and GI Bill benefits. He is driven to pursue a young man named Allerton, who is based on Adelbert Lewis Marker.
CRAIG: It happened very quickly once we said we were going to do it.
Let’s do this.
Then things started to really move very rapidly after that, and next thing we’re in Rome.
So, I would say the proper preps about four months.
At least I start really seriously thinking about it, properly just weighing it up.
CRAIG: It’s pretty much like that.
I mean, it’s every day.
It’s Monday to Friday.
You wanna be as prepared as possible.
And then you get there, and you forget it all.
CRAIG: Its gone.
STARKEY: It’s also individual to a project.
It’s kind of unique to anything you do.
But then, the first day, your heart is pounding, and you forget how to talk.
CRAIG: And move your limbs.
STARKEY: Yeah, youre freaking out.
STARKEY: That’s a good question.
CRAIG: How are you gonna answer it?
[Laughs] It might be a good question, but let’s hear it.
STARKEY: My mind went to the day on the beach in Sicily when we were running.
CRAIG: That’s the problem, you’re free to only remember puerile shit.
And cut, and youre just pulling these things out of your feet.
That’s kind of what it is.
But the emotional stuff, is that what you mean?
I was very emotional on that day.
You could feel the weight of that day and the presence that he had.
Yeah, that’s a day and a scene that I’ll remember probably the most.
CRAIG: I don’t think in that way.
I really don’t.
I’m not being a diarist while I’m working.
It doesn’t go in.
I’m moving on all the time, so nothing really stays with me.
I’m like a goldfish.
It’s like it all just stays with me, kind of just as one huge experience.
Queeris in now playing in select theaters.
He is driven to pursue a young man named Allerton, who is based on Adelbert Lewis Marker.
