daniel craig guards an unusual secret recipe.

The 56-year-old actor sits in his chair queer costar Drew Starkey for a Diversity In an interview about director Luca Guadagnino’s latest film, the actors discussed a visual image of sperm shown in the film’s opening credits in the first version.

“That’s why you need to watch the movie again,” Craig said of the surprising footage, which the news outlet’s reporter wrote they didn’t notice. “I think it could have been a lot more at some point, but it’s still there. “This is a little Easter egg.”

When asked if the substance seen on the screen was “real”, Craig said: “There’s a story about it.” “This is a very, very secret recipe,” he added.

The Italian director behind it is Guadagnino Call Me By Your Name And ChallengersHe later explained that the semen image had been “removed” from the film’s opening credits, but could still be seen in other scenes.

“They must have seen an early outage. The director explained: “There was an image of the sheets containing semen. But of course there’s a lot of semen in the movie.”

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queer It is adapted from William S. Burroughs’ 1985 novella, which he wrote as a spiritual sequel to the author’s 1953 semi-autobiographical work. Junkie: Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict.

Guadagnino told Diversity He finds nothing unusual about his films’ approach to sex and relationships.

“I’ve been shooting sex on screen ever since I shot my short film Qui “When I was 22, I always said to myself: If you start giving a certain level of awareness or alarm to that scene, it will become something that shouldn’t happen,” said Guadagnino, adding: “Quality means surrendering the audience to the scene. “They don’t judge what they see, they don’t feel its fakeness, but they believe it completely.”

When asked about the film’s sex scenes, Starkey said he did not expect them to be controversial once the film was released.

“We can get on our phones and go to any website and see whatever we want,” he said, further stating that the film “comes from a loving place that is much deeper than flash images.”

Craig said Diversity When filming sex scenes, “You kind of have to leave your ego at the door. You kind of have to let it go. There are no rules.” Starkey added, “That’s what I learned from you. There’s no ego involved. I’ve never seen a freer player.”

queer In select cinemas on November 27.