{"id":113624,"date":"2024-07-24T01:45:13","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T01:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/24\/omar-apollo-cast-in-queer-movie-to-making-acting-debut-alongside-daniel-craig\/"},"modified":"2024-07-24T01:45:13","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T01:45:13","slug":"omar-apollo-cast-in-queer-movie-to-making-acting-debut-alongside-daniel-craig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/24\/omar-apollo-cast-in-queer-movie-to-making-acting-debut-alongside-daniel-craig\/","title":{"rendered":"Omar Apollo Cast In \u2018Queer\u2019 Movie, To Making Acting Debut Alongside Daniel Craig!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/omar-apollo\/\" title=\"Omar Apollo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Omar Apollo<\/strong><\/a> is headed to the big screen!<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old \u201cDrifting\u201d singer has just been announced as part of the cast of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/luca-guadagnino\/\" title=\"Luca Guadagnino\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Luca Guadagnino<\/strong><\/a>\u2018s upcoming movie <strong><em>Queer<\/em><\/strong>, according to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2024\/music\/news\/omar-apollo-luca-guadagnino-queer-acting-debut-1235635153\/\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;https:\/\/variety.com\/2024\/music\/news\/omar-apollo-luca-guadagnino-queer-acting-debut-1235635153\/&#039;); return false;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Variety<\/a><\/em>, marking his acting debut.<\/p>\n<p>He will star opposite <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.justjared.com\/2023\/04\/21\/daniel-craig-outer-banks-drew-starkey-to-star-in-queer-film-for-director-luca-guadagnino\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">previously announced<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/daniel-craig\/\" title=\"Daniel Craig\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Daniel Craig<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/drew-starkey\/\" title=\"Drew Starkey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Drew Starkey<\/strong><\/a>. If you didn\u2019t know, the movie has been in the works for about two years now, as <strong>Luca<\/strong> and <strong>Daniel<\/strong>\u2018s involvement were <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.justjared.com\/2022\/12\/09\/daniel-craig-to-star-in-queer-from-director-luca-guadagnino\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first revealed<\/a> in late 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c1st movie with Luca, wow hot ass cast \ud83e\udebd\u201d <strong>Omar<\/strong> shared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C9xLE3XvQZb\/\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C9xLE3XvQZb\/&#039;); return false;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram <\/a>with the news. He also added on his story that <strong>Luca <\/strong>is his favorite director!<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"hidearticle\"><em>Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/em><\/strong><span id=\"more-2040290\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The upcoming movie is based on <strong>William S Burroughs<\/strong>\u2018 1985 semi-autobiographical novel of the same name and is set in Mexico City in the 1940s.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a synopsis, via <em><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2024\/music\/news\/omar-apollo-luca-guadagnino-queer-acting-debut-1235635153\/\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;https:\/\/variety.com\/2024\/music\/news\/omar-apollo-luca-guadagnino-queer-acting-debut-1235635153\/&#039;); return false;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Variety<\/a><\/em>: <em>Queer<\/em> follows the story of Lee (Craig), who lives among American college students and bar owners living off part-time jobs and GI Bill benefits following World War II. The book\u2019s themes touch on sex and drug abuse, with the protagonist becoming infatuated with a younger, discharged American Navy serviceman named Allerton (<strong>Starkey<\/strong>). Allerton is a drug user, who, though indifferent to Lee\u2019s advances, eventually relents.<\/p>\n<p><em>Challengers<\/em> scribe <strong>Justin Kuritzkes<\/strong> wrote the screenplay and the movie will make it\u2019s debut at the upcoming<em> 2024 Venice Film Festival<\/em>, which takes place from August 28-September 7!<\/p>\n<p>If you didn\u2019t know, <strong>Omar<\/strong> is currently on his<em> God Said No World Tour<\/em>, with his next stops in Japan on Thursday (July 25) in Tokyo and Friday (July 26) in Yuzuwa. He will then take about a month off before kicking off the tour in North America on August 20th in Indianapolis, which is in his home state of Indiana.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v3.2&appId=145071315902360\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2024\/07\/23\/omar-apollo-cast-in-queer-movie-to-making-acting-debut-alongside-daniel-craig\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Omar Apollo is headed to the big screen! The 27-year-old \u201cDrifting\u201d singer has just been announced as part of the cast of Luca Guadagnino\u2018s upcoming movie Queer, according to Variety, marking his acting debut. He will star opposite previously announced Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey. If you didn\u2019t know, the movie has been in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":113625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-113624","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}