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    Director Guadagnino Joins Little Minx For Spots, Branded Content

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    Luca Guadagnino
    SANTA MONICA, Calif. --

    Little Minx has added director Luca Guadagnino to its roster for commercial representation. Guadagnino has created a name for himself working with high end fashion brands including Giorgio Armani, Cartier, Sergio Rossi and Salvatore Ferragamo. For the latter, Guadagnino helmed a short film for the digital campaign “Walking Stories, “ an eight-part web series which took viewers to Los Angeles, Shanghai and Florence, centering on a couple’s journey as they fall in love. This project resulted in Ferragamo being named Marketer of the Year by Women’s Wear Daily.

    Guadagnino has also been active on the feature-length film front. His theatrical movie “I Am Love,” starring frequent collaborator and Academy Award-winning Tilda Swinton, went on to earn a staggering 14 awards and 26 nominations including Best Foreign Language Film at the Golden Globes and BAFTA Awards.

    Guadagnino is currently in postproduction for his latest film, “A Bigger Splash” exploring the politics of desire between a man and woman lost in the Mediterranean. The film, which stars Swinton, Ralph Fiennes, Dakota Johnson and Matthias Schoenaerts, anticipates a 2015 premiere. Guadagnino is also developing the highly anticipated thriller “A Reliable Wife” based on a novel by Robert Goolrick, which follows a mail order bride who quickly turns deadly.

    Rhea Scott, president of Little Minx, said, “'I Am Love' blew me away. Luca’s ability to make us, the viewer, feel so much by saying so little is uncanny. That was first and foremost, but a close second was his personality and charisma. He had me in stitches within minutes of meeting him.”

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    Daniel Craig Embraced Openness For Role In Director Luca Guadagnino’s “Queer”

    Tuesday, November 26, 2024

    Daniel Craig is sitting in the restaurant of the Carlyle Hotel talking about how easy it can be to close yourself off to new experiences.

    "We get older and maybe out of fear, we want to control the way we are in our lives. And I think it's sort of the enemy of art," Craig says. "You have to push against it. Whether you have success or not is irrelevant, but you have to try to push against it."

    Craig, relaxed and unshaven, has the look of someone who has freed himself of a too snug tuxedo. Part of the abiding tension of his tenure as James Bond was this evident wrestling with the constraints that came along with it. Any such strains, though, would seem now to be completely out the window.

    Since exiting that role, Craig, 56, has seemed eager to push himself in new directions. He performed "Macbeth" on Broadway. His drawling detective Benoit Blanc ("Halle Berry!") stole the show in "Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery." And now, Craig gives arguably his most transformative performance as the William S. Burroughs avatar Lee in Luca Guadagnino's tender tale of love and longing in postwar Mexico City, "Queer."

    Since the movie's Venice Film Festival premiere, it's been one of the fall's most talked about performances — for its explicit sex scenes, for its vulnerability and for its extremely un-007-ness.

    "The role, they say, must have been a challenge or 'You're so brave to do this,'" Craig said in a recent interview alongside Guadagnino. "I kind of go, 'Eh, not really.' It's why I get up in the morning."

    In "Queer," which A24 releases Wednesday in theaters, Craig again plays a well-traveled, sharply dressed, cocktail-drinking man. But the similarities with his most famous role stop there. Lee is an American expat living in 1950s... Read More

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