Drew Starkey Admits He Has a 'Little Bit of Troy Bolton in Me' as Basketball Was His 'First Love'

Before Drew Starkey decided to pursue acting full-time, he was a “game head”, much like Troy Bolton in High school musical.

The 31-year-old opened up about his love for basketball before he became an actor in an interview with Dazed Magazine. He joked that, like the main character in the hit Disney movies who plays basketball for his head coaching father but is drawn to the theater, “I’ve got a little bit of Troy Bolton in me” — especially since Starkey’s dad also serves as the head basketball coach at Kent State University.

Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey in Queer.

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Drew Starkey admits he was nervous about ‘every’ scene queer — Ali says costar Daniel Craig was ‘a dream to work with’

“Basketball was my first love,” Starkey explained. But despite his passion for sports, Starkey was still drawn to acting: “I was like, ‘No, Dad, I want to sing and dance, you know, I’m meant to be an actor.’ ”

“Sometimes you can go into a flow where it feels like this is what I’m supposed to be doing and it’s second nature to me,” he continued. “It’s kind of unconscious. And I feel like that happens, at least to me, very rarely, and the pursuit of that is what makes it so addicting, I think.”

Starkey’s starring role in Foreign banks Rafe Cameron, the complex and empowered older brother of Madelyn Cline’s Sarah, became his breakthrough role. Next time we will see him at Luca Guadagnino queer — adaptation of the novel by William Burroughs — with Daniel Craig.

IN queer Craig’s character William Lee (Burroughs’ alter ego) develops an obsessive crush on Starkey’s Eugene Allerton in 1950s Mexico City. Starkey described the characters’ feelings for each other throughout the film as “a deep kind of yearning [that lingers] beneath the surface… except that one represents it more.”

“There’s a kind of failure within Lee that doesn’t allow him to express it,” he continued. “That fear of someone really knowing who you are, I’ve struggled with, I think, most of my life. It can stop people in their tracks.”

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Starkey opened up about working on queer at the New York Film Festival on Oct. 6 and revealed that while he was nervous shooting “every” scene in the film, it was “amazing” to work with Craig and that he offered him “”some good guidance” .

“Working with him is a dream,” Starkey continued. “Such an amazing artist and he was the best actor I’ve ever worked with. I mean, I couldn’t have asked for a better partner.”

Daniel Craig falls in love with a younger man in the trailer for Luca Guadagnino’s film queer

Craig also shared praise for Starkey’s performance in the film, telling reporters “I love him to death. He’s the best.”

Along with Craig and Starkeyqueer also stars Lesley Manville, Jason Schwartzman, Drew Droege and Omar Apollo and is now playing in limited theaters.

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