Was It Real or ...? Drew Starkey Comes Clean About His Big 'Queer' Moment

Earlier this year, Luca Guadagnino had social media buzzing about a motel room scene in "Challengers," his drama about the rivalry between two tennis players – played by Josh O'Connor and Mike Faist -- on the court and off. In Zendaya, who plays the object of both of their intentions, initiates a three-way kiss; then, at one point, she pulls back, but the men don't. Later the two men literally have a steamy moment in a sauna; but for all the hetero-and-homoerotic tension, there are no sex scenes in the film.

Not so with "Queer," Guadagnino's latest that stars Daniel Craig as William Burroughs' doppelganger (it is an adaptation of Burroughs' unfinished novel), in which the "Knives Out" actor plays a drifting and often drunk novelist killing time in Mexico City sometime in the 1950s. His aimlessness ends when he becomes obsessed with another American, a younger man, played by Drew Starkey, the3 30-year old best-known for his ongoing role on Netflix's teen mystery series "Outer Banks," which was recently renewed for a fifth and final season.

"To be clear, the movie's sex is definitive and copious," writes Time Magazine in a feature on the film. "Those who were frustrated by the camera's pronounced panning away in Guadagnino's previous May-December gay romance Call Me by Your Name should be satiated by Queer's frankness." In the film, Lee (Craig) has sex with two men: a more than willing hottie (named Chumi Bar Guy) played by queer music icon Omar Apollo; and a far less so Starkey, who plays the Eugene Allerton.

Now that the film is in theaters amid considerable Oscar buzz (notably for Craig), and there is much internet buzz about the sex scenes in the film, one with Apollo in a seedy bar, and the second between Craig and Starkey in Lee's apartment. The Daily Beast is calling it "one of the most astonishing sex scenes of the entire year" in a year filled with astonishing sex scenes. Suffice to say it leaves little to the imagination, and especially in Starkey's case, which has led many to wonder, is it real or a prosthetic?

The question is answered in the Time story: "Starkey says he wore a prosthetic."