The former Bond actor takes on novelist William S. Burroughs in the new romantic drama. Report by Nelsonj. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00I was familiar with that kind of degeneration, Kerouac and Ginsberg, but I hadn't read Queer
00:07before this.
00:08No, same.
00:09I hadn't frantically read it in a day.
00:12Yeah, it's the same, I think, I knew of him and Ginsberg and Kerouac, but not really his
00:20deep history and certainly not this period in his life when he was in Mexico.
00:25So yeah, it was kind of nice digging into that.
00:28We talked to a couple of really interesting people who are experts on Burroughs, which
00:32was great, just to ask a few questions about him and about, you know, I always felt that
00:37Burroughs had a very public face and I wanted to know what the private part of him was like.
00:44And I think in Queer you sort of see more of that than you do in any of the other books.
00:49But after that, it's just, you get on with it.
00:51The script's good, you say the words and hopefully they come out right.
00:57It's that simple.
00:58Well, it is.
01:00Luke is intensely wrapped up in all of it, but he's a, I love working with him.
01:06He's very joyful to work with and I'm trying to dodge the question because I can't remember
01:13one note that he gave us, but he's just, you know.
01:17I think, I was a bit, that threw me off a bit because I wanted him to, there were times
01:25where I was like, what do you think?
01:27But I think he has such a trust in the team of people that he's built around him.
01:32Right, and also in his actors, I mean, he's just like, yeah, I mean, I think if it was
01:37wrong, he'd say something, but if it was right, he'd just say, let's move on, let's do it,
01:42we have it.
01:43I mean, which is, can be a little disconcerting, but I think after a while you just go, I'm
01:47in his hands.
01:48Yeah, you're in security.
01:49He's in charge.
01:50Yeah.