He graced millions of screens as hotheaded Rafe Cameron on Netflix’s outrageously popular teen drama—but landing his first major film role, as the object of Daniel Craig’s infatuation in the upcoming Luca Guadagnino film Queer, has Starkey poised to make the leap to a new tier of leading man.

Drew Starkey first blew up playing a coked-out rage monster on the Netflix soap Outer Banks, but leave it to Luca Guadagnino to flip that script by casting the 30-year-old...

The Outer Banks star redefines himself as Daniel Craig’s enigmatic lover. Over lunch with Vanity Fair, he calls the role “a wake-up call for me.”