Daniel Craig and director Luca Guadagnino’s reaction in Venice to the question “could there be a gay James Bond?”

Impeccable Daniel Craig at the presentation of the film at the Venice Film Festival Queer by Luca Guadagnino. Craig, who rose to worldwide fame as agent 007 in the James Bond saga, takes a new direction in his career and plays the bohemian Lee, the gay alter ego of William Burroughs, one of the leading literary figures of the Beat Generation.

During the press conference for the presentation of the film, a journalist asked him if “there could be a gay James Bond.” The actor’s response was “amen,” which he accompanied with an elegant gesture. He was the director of Queer who got out of the way with a clear message: “Guys, let’s be adults for a second.” And he added: “There’s no way around the fact that no one will ever know James Bond’s wishes. Period.” Guadagnino clarified: “That said… now the important thing is that he does his missions properly.” Daniel supported him with a smile and applause, then went on to laugh uncontrollably. The director, with a caress on the actor’s neck, settled the matter with an “I adore you.”

The networks have not remained oblivious to this moment. There are opinions of all kinds. From the user who insists on “let’s be adults please”; “the question is not entirely well posed, but it is necessary in my opinion” or “the wokism of the progressive media borders on the absurd.”

The actor plays Lee – William Burroughs’ alter ego – an American living in Mexico City in 1950, lost in the labyrinth of hovels where homosexuals go out to have fun, in nights of sex and tequila that seem to last forever. Guadagnino’s film, which is competing for the Mostra’s Golden Lion, contains several scenes of homosexual sex between Craig and Drew Starkey, who plays a young man who has just arrived in the city.