Daniel Craig sets his sights on Drew Starkey as pair end up in bed together in steamy trailer for new gay romance film Queer

Daniel Craig gets intimate with his co-star Drew Starkey in the steamy new trailer for their film Queer. 

The actor, 56, plays an American, William Lee, living in Mexico City who becomes sexually obsessed with a former sailor, Allerton [Starkey, 30].

The film is an adaptation of a novella by American writer William S. Burroughs. 

The trailer opens with Daniel Craig's character strolling through the streets of Mexico City at night.

He enters a cafe where he spots Allerton sitting near the window and the two men exchange a look.

Daniel's character is then heard telling a friend: 'It was a wise old queen who told me I have a duty to live, to conquer hate with knowledge and sinceity and love. The difficult is to convince someone else that he is really a part of you.'

As he looks at Allerton in another scene, he says: 'I've got bigger fish to fry.'

His friend replies: 'Bigger fish is right, colder, slippery, hard to catch.'

The trailer then sees William and Allerton spending time together at the cinema and the beach before they appear to have sex and are also seen lying in bed. 

Daniel spoke about the love scenes in the film, telling the Venice Film Festival: 'We just wanted to make it as touching and as real and as natural as we could.'

Delegates at the film festival have professed surprise at the sex scenes which are like nothing hitherto seen in a mainstream film.

Speaking on Tuesday he said: 'Drew (Starkey) is a wonderful fantastic beautiful actor to work with and we had a laugh, we tried to make it fun.

'There was some choreography in the movie which was a very important part of the movie. Drew and I started months before filming rehearsing the dancing. Dancing with someone is a great icebreaker.

'You know as well as I do there is nothing intimate about filming a sex scene on a movie set, but we just wanted to make it as touching and as real and as natural as we could.'

Director Luca Guadagnino, behind the recent hit Challengers starring Zendaya, said: 'Daniel in our first Zoom was adamant that this was going to be a love story first and foremost. We stuck with that - what does it mean to love and to be loved, to be connected and to be disconnected.' 

Describing Craig as 'one of the greatest actors', he cited his 'generosity of approach' and added: 'He has the capacity of being very mortal on screen, very few are. 

'Very few iconic legendary actors allow that fragility to be seen and one of them is Daniel to be sure.'

Guadagnino added that he had tried to create imaginary worlds when filming the unfinished novella, and including scenes in which the actors try the hallucinogenic drug Ayahuasca.

The actor has been tipped for an Oscar nomination in the Best Actor category for his work in the film. 

Venice Film Festival boss Alberto Barbera said he believes Daniel has given 'the performance of a lifetime' in Queer, and added he'd be surprised if we don't see the British actor at the Academy Awards next year.

It would mark the first ever Oscar nod for Craig.

Queer will be released in cinemas on November 27 in the US and on December 13 in the UK.