Omar Apollo Would ‘Emulate’ Music Movies for ‘Queer’ Intercourse with Daniel Craig (Unique)

Omar Apollo drew from his life as a musician for his debut performing function.

In an unique dialog with PEOPLE on the premiere of Queer in Los Angeles on Nov. 13, the singer, 27, opened up about how he would channel his music movies whereas filming romantic scenes with Daniel Craig.

When requested how he made his intercourse scenes really feel genuine with Craig, 56, because it was the pair’s first time working collectively, Apollo admitted, “Nicely, I’ve shot music movies earlier than for my music, so I simply tried to emulate that feeling.”

“There wasn’t actually a lot nerves, it was a really calm set,” the Grammy-nominated artist continued of the Luca Guadagnino-directed undertaking. “Everyone seems to be tremendous gifted.”

“I trusted everybody round me so that basically eased all of my anxieties round capturing,” Apollo added.

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In Queer, Apollo stars as an American expat in Nineteen Forties Mexico Metropolis who falls in love with a youthful man, performed by Outer Banks star Drew Starkey.

It’s based mostly on the 1985 seminal novella of the identical identify by William S. Burroughs, which the creator wrote as a non secular sequel to his semi-autobiographical 1953 work Junkie: Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict. 

Alongside Apollo, Craig and Starkey, 31, Queer — which premiered on the 2024 Venice Movie Pageant — incorporates a starry supporting solid, together with Lesley Manville, Jason Schwartzman and Drew Droege.

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Talking about making Queer his movie debut, Apollo instructed PEOPLE, “It simply introduced itself to me and I used to be like, ‘In fact.’ ”

“I did not not need to do it,” added the “Achieved with You” musician. “It was nice, and it is cool that it is my first function ever.”

Queer is in choose theaters Nov. 27.