  The collapsar model for long gamma-ray bursts requires a rapidly rotating
Wolf-Rayet star as progenitor. We test the idea of producing rapidly rotating
Wolf-Rayet stars in massive close binaries through mass accretion and
consecutive quasi-chemically homogeneous evolution; the latter had previously
been shown to provide collapsars below a certain metallicity threshold for
single stars. The binary channel presented here may provide a means for massive
stars to obtain the high rotation rates required to evolve quasi-chemically
homogeneous and fulfill the collapsar scenario. Moreover, it suggests that a
possibly large fraction of long gamma-ray bursts occurs in runaway stars.
