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

Earlier this fall, Starkey told IndieWire that Craig and he worked with an intimacy coordinator, but he felt they didn't need them. Prior to filming, he explained, Craig and he had been movement rehearsals for months. "So, you know, by the time we got there, it's like we'd been [in] like a jiu-jitsu class for like a couple of months. It was with this amazing, beautiful dance, and choreography. We were comfortable. It was, it was a lot of fun."

Craig concurred, telling Variety. "You know as well as I do, there's nothing intimate about filming a sex scene on a movie set. There's a room full of people watching you," Craig said. "We just wanted to make it as touching and as real and as natural as we possibly could. Drew is a wonderful, fantastic, beautiful actor to work with and we kind of had a laugh. We tried to make it fun."

For his part, "Apollo would not confirm or deny the veracity of his cinematic anatomy," writes Time. Asked about taking the role, Apollo told Out Magazine that he got a call and "[they] told me about the scene and how explicit it was. I instantly just said yes. I was like, Yeah, of course. It's Daniel Craig. Of course I'm down. I wasn't really fearful or anything. I was like, It's kind of my reality. It's not something that's new to me."

Adding: "But it was exciting to do something, especially when it comes to skin and bodily physical contact, It's nice to trust somebody that shoots those kinds of scenes, so intimate and beautifully. So I trusted everyone on set and it was really easy and fun."