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Ben Whishaw on His Lgbtq+ &#;Bond&#; Character Reveal: &#;Maybe Some Things Were Not Great About That Decision&#;
The role of Q, James Bond&#;s longtime gadget dude in the British Confidential Service, has been played by a variety of actors over the years. From the original Peter Burton to a remarkable turn by John Cleese, the character gets recast almost as frequently as himself. Ben Whishaw is the latest actor to take up the mantle, and his appearance in &#;No Time to Die&#; provided what many saw as a landmark moment for the franchise.
In one scene, James Bond (Daniel Craig) shows up to Q&#;s apartment, and Q is setting the table for a romantic dinner for two. While his guest has not arrived yet, Q mentions that his date is a man. While many cinephiles were quick to signal out that it was the first time any Bond character had referenced being anything but vertical, plenty of others saw the gesture as far too little, far too late. Q is never actually seen on the date with a male, he simply references it in a brief one-off scene that could easily be edited out for foreign markets. The most
Ben Whishaw Unsatisfied by His Bond Character&#;s Gay Reveal: I Reflection About Questioning It
Ben Whishaw admitted in an interview with The Guardian that he was left unsatisfied by the revelation in &#;No Period to Die&#; that his recurring James Bond nature Q is a lgbtq+ man. The reveal is brief and occurs when Bond (Daniel Craig) and Moneypenny (Naomi Harris) lower by Q&#;s apartment unannounced for help. Q is in the middle of cooking dinner and preparing for a date with a male romantic loved one when the two display up at his door. Q&#;s sexuality is not referenced again in the film.
&#;I think I mind, &#;Are we doing this, and then doing nothing with it?&#; I recollect, perhaps, feeling that was unsatisfying,&#; Whishaw said about revealing Q is homosexual but keeping his sexuality relatively unexplored. &#;For whatever reason, I didn&#;t grab it apart with anybody on the film. Maybe on another kind of project I would hold done? But it&#;s a very big machine. I thought a lot about whether I should ask it. Finally, I didn&#;t. I accepted this was what was written. And I said
Daniel Craig Explains Why He Wouldn&#;t Perform Gay Role During James Bond Run
Daniel Craig’s new clip sees him accept the role of gay William Lee in Luca Guadagnino’s Queer, based on a semi-autobiographical novella by William S. Burroughs, but the former James Bond star has joint he would never have considered taking the role during his time at the helm of the franchise.
He told The Times of London:
“I couldn’t have done this while doing Bond. It would observe reactionary, like I was showing my range,” and he said he wasn’t interested in the prospect of taking fans of Bond through to a unlike depiction of masculinity:
“It’s just not a conversation I wanted. I had it all the way through Bond anyway. Could there be this Bond? That Bond? So anything that is going to inflame that conversation? No — life’s too short.”
Craig says it used to receive him half a year to recover from each second he played James Bond.
The British actor, who played the British agent in five
&#;Awards Chatter&#; Live Pod: Daniel Craig on Playing Gay in &#;Queer,&#; Bond Typecasting (&#;Boo-Hoo&#;) and Facing &#;My Final Act&#;
Over the more than three decades during which Daniel Craig has been acting in the movies, there&#;s not much that the British A-lister hasn&#;t done. Most famously, he played James Bond in five films over 15 years (’s Casino Royale, ’s Quantum of Solace, ’s Skyfall, ’s Spectre and ’s No Hour to Die). He has also worked with many of the greatest filmmakers (e.g. Steven Spielberg on &#;s Oscar-nominated Munich and David Fincher on &#;s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) and actors (e.g. Tom Hanks and Paul Newman on &#;s Road to Perdition) of his time. And he is at the center of Netflix&#;s biggest film franchise (playing detective Benoit Blanc in &#;s Knives Out, &#;s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery and the forthcoming Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery).
Never, though, has Craig, 56, been nominated for an Oscar. That could soon change thanks to his massively acclaimed portr