Drew Starkey Says Recording ADR for ‘Queer’ Sex Scenes Made Him Feel “Like You’re in an Insane Asylum”

Drew Starkey said heading to the ADR recording booth for Luca Guadagnino‘s Queer was, ahem, a tidge awkward.

Starkey recalled the experience while conversing with co-star Omar Apollo in Interview magazine. Both spoke about having to record Automated Dialogue Replacement during postproduction of Queer, which is Guadagnino’s adaptation of the 1985 novel of the same name by William S. Burroughs. Starkey stars alongside Daniel Craig as the center relationship in 1940s Mexico. In the interview, Apollo told Starkey, “I know you have some really, really intimate scenes”

“That ADR is fun,” Starkey said. “It’s always exertion and breaths and groans. Just you in a booth alone doing that, you feel like you’re in an insane asylum.”

Earlier this week, the movie was acquired by A24. At the time of the interview, Starkey told Apollo he had just seen the film for the first time.

“Sometimes you work on things and you have a vision of how it’s going to be, and then it goes through the editing process and postproduction, and you’re like, ‘Oh, shit. That’s not what I had in mind for it at all,’” Starkey said. “But Luca did a good job of communicating how it was going to feel and the way it was going to be shaped and put together. So it matched the vision in my head more or less, which was cool.”

Elsewhere in the interview, Starkey also spoke about how Netflix’s Outer Banks changed the trajectory of his career. Starkey plays Rafe Cameron in the show, which debuted its first season during covid.

“Everybody was locked down,” Starkey said. “It took two years after it came out for us to actually come face-to-face with people who had seen it, so it eased us into the public eye.”

Netflix unveiled the Outer Banks season four trailer earlier this week, which will see Starkey return alongside stars Chase Stokes, Madelyn Cline, Madison Bailey, Jonathan Daviss, Rudy Pankow, Carlacia Grant and Austin North.

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