The acclaimed British actor may be best known for portraying James Bond, but he embraces a much different role in Luca Guadagnino’s William S. Burroughs-themed ‘Queer.’

While he may no longer be James Bond, actor Daniel Craig is about to be something else: a first time Oscar nominee.

Guadagnino, convinced Craig was right for the role, approached the actor with the script. In Craig, Guadagnino saw someone, he says, who was “open to play.” Within days, Craig, long an admirer of Guadagnino’s films, was in.