Chatting with Drew Starkey feels easy and familiar—the kind of companionable chit-chat you get when you’re waiting in line for something, or walking somewhere, and using your handful of downtime minutes to FaceTime an old friend and say, “What’s up?”
When the actor and I first met over dinner in New York last October, Starkey was in the midst of a white-hot press tour for Luca Guadagnino’s Queer; when we talk again on a sunny Saturday morning in mid-September, he’s phoning in…

