He graced millions of screens as hotheaded Rafe Cameron on Netflix’s outrageously popular teen drama—but landing his first major film role, as the object of Daniel Craig’s infatuation in the upcoming Luca Guadagnino film Queer, has Starkey poised to make the leap to a new tier of leading man.
The Outer Banks star redefines himself as Daniel Craig’s enigmatic lover. Over lunch with Vanity Fair, he calls the role “a wake-up call for me.”
Not literally though. That’s for the professionals. But in this interview, Chase Stokes, Jonathan Daviss, Rudy Pankow, and Drew Starkey do get super vulnerable—about how fans will react to their new projects, their love-hate relationship with social media, and why they’re begging Drew to check his texts.
His performance in the Oscar hopeful Queer opposite Daniel Craig has Hollywood buzzing. He’s also fashion’s latest “it” boy, a thinking man, and an incredible dinner companion. Where did this guy come from?
In Queer, Drew Starkey smoulders as an ex-Navy man whose haunting good looks bring Daniel Craig out in a nervous sweat. Here, he talks punk and postmodernism, and the intimate link on screen between sex and honesty
The “Outer Banks” actor is Hollywood’s newest rising star thanks to the new Luca Guadagnino movie “Queer.”