Queer’s Drew Starkey wore prosthetics during sex scenes with Daniel Craig

Drew Starkey revealed whether he wore prosthetics while filming sex scenes Daniel Craig for her film Strange.

Starkey, 31, and his co-star Omar Apollo were asked by TIME Magazine earlier this month to contribute to the subject of appearing completely naked on screen. While Apollo, 27, would neither confirm nor deny that he chose to film his full-frontal scenes without any prosthetic aid, Starkey said he chose not to be fully nude on screen.

When asked a similar question, Craig, 56, explained his reasons for not doing full-frontal scenes: “You’re young. You are young and beautiful.”

Starkey credited the motion rehearsals with helping to break the ice on the set of the NSFW scenes.

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While some actors, like Cooper Koch in Monsters, showed off in full-frontal scenes, others chose not to go completely naked — opting for prosthetic bodies instead. Eric Dane, who plays Cal Jacobs in Euphoria, previously explained what happens when working on such a vulnerable part of the project. “These scenes are very (…)

“We have to embarrass ourselves in front of each other – and only achieve small successes in the choreography with each other,” he added. “It permeated everything.”

Based on the 1985 novella William S. Burroughs, Strange follows Craig’s character Lee as he flees a drug raid in 1950s New Orleans. Lee then wanders the city’s clubs and falls in love with a discharged American Navy soldier, Allerton (Starkey).

Despite choosing not to appear nude on screen, Craig had nothing but praise for Queer’s sex scenes.

“Sex is wonderful, messy and complicated, and hopefully we’ve managed to bring that to the screen because that’s what happens in the bedroom,” he said Sunday Times in October. “We chose that kind of vulnerability and kept it as real as possible.”

The topic of prosthetics is now becoming more and more common as actors raise the curtain on filming risky scenes. For example, Charles Melton was asked if she should wear prosthetics in a sex scene May December.

“It was very professional,” Melton, 33, said diversity in December 2023 about filming an intimate movie moment between him and his co-star Natalie Portman. “The whole. Natalie, (director) Todd (Haynes) and I met to discuss the scene, walked through it and made sure everyone was comfortable.”

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Not all actors have worn prosthetic penises in full-frontal scenes; others have preferred to bare all. Cooper Koch had viewers talking about his performance as Erik Menéndez when Ryan Murphy’s Monsters premiered in September 2024. But it wasn’t just his one-shot episodes in which Koch – as Menéndez – recounted years of abuse at (…).

Melton confirmed that he chose to wear a prosthetic body instead of completely exposing himself. “There were some conversations about the prosthetics, about what was realistic and what wasn’t,” he explained.

However, the process proved quite lengthy for Melton. “I had to wear this prosthesis for nine hours that day,” he recalled at the time. “I didn’t have anything to drink the morning or the night before. It was an annoying process, but still very respectful.”

In the meantime, Cooper Koch got viewers talking about his performance as Erik Menéndez — and he didn’t opt ​​for a prosthetic penis for a nude shower scene.

“Just to say, mine wasn’t a prosthesis,” the 28-year-old Koch continued Watch what happens live with Andy Cohen in October. host Andy Cohen congratulated Koch on being “very blessed,” to which the actor cheekily quipped, “Well hung.”