Jam Bond Producer Refed to Let Stud Cut ‘Skyfall’ Gay Scene – IndieWire

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• JAM BOND’S GAY HT WAS ALMOST CUT OM SKYFALL, SAYS PRODUCER
• IS JAVIER BARM PLAYG THE FIRST GAY BOND VILLA 'SKYFALL'? BARM AND DIRECTOR SAM MENS WEIGH
• JAM BOND’S GAY HT WAS ALMOST CUT OM SKYFALL, SAYS BARBARA BROCLI
• SKYFALL STAR DANIEL CRAIG OPENS UP ON BOND VILLA RAOUL SILVA GAY MOURS
• JAM BOND GAY: SKYFALL HOMOEROTIC SCENE IS A WK TO A YOUNGER AND MORE DIVERSE AUDIENCE
• 'JAM BOND' PRODUCER REVEALS THAT THE SECRET AGENT’S GAY EXPERIENCE WAS ALMOST CUT FROM 'SKYFALL'
• KEV FALLONSENR EDOR, OBSSEDUPDATED JUL. 14, 2017 2:10AM EDT / PUBLISHED NOV. 08, 2012 4:45AM EST GARETH CATTERMOLE / GETTY IMAGJAVIER BARM DON’T APPEAR UNTIL ABOUT 70 MUT TO SKYFALL.BUT BOY DO HE MAKE AN IMPRSN.THE JAM BOND FILM ANCHISE TURNED 50 THIS FALL, AND IS MEMORATG THE GOLN ANNIVERSARY WH THE RELEASE OF S 23RD FILM, SKYFALL, OUT AMERIN THEATERS NOV. 9. IT’S A REVERENT HOMAGE TO CLASSIC BOND WHILE TAKG THE ANCHISE A NEW DIRECTN. FANS GET THE CLOST THG YET TO A 007 BACKSTORY, WHILE THE FILM BRANDISH AN EMOTNAL THROUGH-LE THAT FIR AS SHARPLY AS DIRECTOR SAM MENS’S SLICK, EXPLOSIVE ACTN SEQUENC. WH EVERY ELEMENT OF SKYFALL AS POLISHED AS DANIEL CRAIG A TOM FORD SU, ’S NO SMALL PRAISE THAT BARM, PLAYG BLEACHED-BLOND CYBERTERRORIST AND PSYCHOPATH RAOUL SILVA, IS BOND 23’S UNNIABLE HIGHLIGHT.SKYFALL PRENTS A VULNERABLE, DOUBTFUL BOND (CRAIG), ONE WHO NS AWAY ON A MEDERRANEAN BENR AFTER HE’S PRUMED AD AND WHO, BETRAYG THE IN’S TYPIL SUAVE NFINCE, THKS HIS BT DAYS ARE BEHD HIM. IT’S BARM’S SILVA WHO, AFTER ORCHTRATG A VENGEFUL ATTACK ON M (JUDI DENCH) AND MI6, AND PROMISG ALL BRISH AGENTS, BRGS BOND BACK TO BTISH FORM. WHILE CLASSIC BOND VILLAS—BLOFELD, GOLDFGER—ARE LORFULLY RTOONISH THEIR NEFARNS, BARM, AS SILVA, SHAS A CHARACTERIZATN THAT IS CIDLY STIRRED, NOT SHAKEN. ARRIVG WH A SHOCK OF BLOND HAIR, AND PLAYFUL EY, AND WEARG A NEAR-PERPETUAL WILY SMIRK, HE PATS A TEXTURED PORTRA OF A MEGALOMANIAC, ONE WHOSE PA REVERBERAT THROUGH HIS MANIAL BAD-GUY LGH.“I WAS VERY STCK BY THE POWER OF THE MATERIAL,” BARM TELLS THE DAILY BEAST. “I SAID, ‘THIS ULD BE FUN.'”BARM’S GLORLY STAGED ENTRANCE, WHEN FALLY ARRIV, DRIPS WH GRANUR—A SGLE-TAKE SHOT OF SILVA SLKG TOWARD A BOUND BOND WHILE LIVERG A THEATRIL MONOLOGUE ABOUT METAPHORIL RATS AND THE ALLURE OF CYBERWARFARE. HOW THRILLED WAS BARM WHEN HE READ THE SCRIPT AND SAW HIS JUICY TRODUCTN? “I WAS NOT THAT EXCED,” HE SAYS, CHUCKLG. ESLATG THE PRSURE, BARM SAYS HE WASN’T TOLD UNTIL THE DAY OF SHOOTG THAT THE MONOLOGUE WOULD BE FILMED WH A SGLE, STEADY SHOT. “WHEN I SAW THE FILM AND SAW THE DISTANCE LOOKED LIKE I HAD TO WALK, I SAID, ‘THAT’S NOT FAIR! IT WAS WAY LONGER THAN THAT. IT LOOKS SO MUCH SHORTER!'”THAT BARM NAILS THE TRICKY SCENE SHOULDN’T SURPRISE ANYONE WHO HAS FOLLOWED HIS REER.HE’S EARNED AMY AWARDS NODS FOR HIS BREAKOUT ROLE AS THE LATE GAY CUBAN POET REALDO ARENAS BEFORE NIGHT FALLS AND HIS VASTATG PERFORMANCE AS A FATHER FACG TERMAL ILLNS BIUTIFUL. IN 2007, HE WON BT SUPPORTG ACTOR FOR PLAYG TERRIFYG KILLER ANTON CHIGURH NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN.HIS PERSONAL LIFE TCH THE UNRSTANDABLE ATTENTN OF TABLOID RAGS AND PAPARAZZI LENS—HE AND PENéLOPE CZ ARE NOT ONLY AMONG THE WORLD’S MOST UNFAIRLY BETIFUL MARRIED UPL, THEY HAVE A CHILD TOGETHER—BUT HE FAMOLY NEVER DISCS HIS FAY WH THE PRS. THE BARM-CZ CLAN RIS MADRID, WHERE BARM NS A BAR WH HIS SISTER WHEN HE’S NOT ACTG. HE LLS GOG TO L.A. TO SHOOT MOVI “GOG TO THE OFFICE.”IT’S WORTH NOTG, HOWEVER, THAT SPE HIS A-LIST REGNN AND AWARDS SUCCS, BARM HAS NEVER TOP-LED A BOX-OFFICE SMASH. SO WHAT PERSUAS AN ACTOR WHO STICKS LARGELY TO SPANISH-LANGUAGE AND PENNT FILMS AND ROUTELY REJECTS THE FLASHG-BULB CIRC OF HOLLYWOOD TO SIGN ON FOR AN STALLMENT OF ONE OF FILM’S MOST INIC—AND WILY SEEN—ANCHIS? MENS, HE SAYS, PLAYED A LARGE PART THE NVCG, AS DID THE HALLOWED LL SHEET OF ACTORS WHO WOULD BE JOG HIM ON SCREEN: JUDI DENCH, RALPH FIENN, ALBERT FNEY, AND DANIEL CRAIG.BUT PERHAPS THE MOST PERSUASIVE PERSON GETTG HIM TO AGREE TO THE PART WAS 007 HIMSELF. “JAM BOND IS JAM BOND EVERYWHERE,” HE SAYS. “I REMEMBER THE FIRST ONE I SAW WAS MOONRAKER. I WAS 12. I WAS WH MY FATHER. I REMEMBER LOOKG FORWARD TO AND WAG FOR THE NEXT BOND MOVIE. SO BEG A PART OF THAT IS A GREAT PRIVILEGE, PECIALLY BEG A PART OF THIS MOVIE, SPECIFILLY, BEE ’S THE ONE THAT CELEBRAT 50 YEARS.” THROUGHOUT BARM’S REER THERE HAVE BEEN MEMORABLE TURNS: AS THE SIZZLG SPANIARD UGHT A LOVE QUADRANGLE VICKY CRISTA BARCELONA, AND THE HUNKY FOC OF THE “LOVE” NARRATIVE EAT PRAY LOVE. BUT CHIGURH NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN REMAS THE ROLE FOR WHICH BARM IS MOST KNOWN.IN THE FILM, BARM’S SCER EY, ALMOST BUG-LIKE, ARE STEELY AND WI. HIS SK TONE IS MA TO LOOK NEARLY JNDICED, NTRASTG WH HIS PALE, PLUMP LIPS. HIS LOOK AS THE THLS ASSASS IS SO NATURALLY MENACG THAT THE MEASURED LIVERY OF THE LE, “HOLD STILL,” BEFORE HE WAST A TARGET CHILLS TO THE BONE. NOW LIBLE, CHIGURH RANKS HIGH ON NUMERO LISTS OF BT MOVIE VILLAS.ALREADY SO LIBLY TIED TO ONE INIC FILM BADDIE, BARM WAS NCERNED ABOUT PLAYG ANOTHER. ESPECIALLY, SCE, ONCE AGA, THIS CHARACTER SPORTS UTTERLY RIDICULO HAIR. AS MUCH TALK AS BARM’S BRILLIANT TURN NO COUNTRY RECEIVED 2007, THERE WAS NEARLY EQUAL FOC ON THE LGHABLY HIO PAGEBOY HAIRSTYLE HE WEARS THE FILM. THE SKYFALL OUTFTG MAY BE EVEN MORE ABSURD. AS SILVA, BARM DONS TACKY WHE LEN SUS AND A BLEACHED-BLOND SHAG THAT IS SEEMGLY SPIRED BY A BATN OF JULIAN ASSANGE’S MOP, A HALLOWEEN STUME WIG FOR FRED OM SOBY-DOO, AND THE PELT OF AN ALBO RONT. AND JT AS NO COUNTRY, THE PLETED LOOK IS, SOMEHOW, ABSOLUTELY TERRIFYG.WHILE HE HAD IAL RERVATNS THAT SILVA WOULD “BE MORE OF THE SAME,” BARM SAYS THAT AN EARLY NVERSATN WH MENS LEFT HIM REASSURED THAT THIS WAS AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT CHARACTER.IT’S ALSO AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT KD OF BIG BADDIE FOR BOND. AUDIENC ARE MORE THAN FAIAR WH BOND’S LICENSE TO LADYKILL—STEAMY TRYSTS WH HOLLYWOOD’S HOTTIE DU JOUR ARE AS TEGRAL TO THE 007 ANCHISE AS CHASE SCEN AND MARTIS. BUT SILVA MAY BE THE FIRST BOND VILLA TO BE CHARACTERIZED AS AS SEXUAL AS HIS FOE.ONE PARTICULAR EROTILLY CHARGED SCENE BETWEEN SILVA AND, Y, BOND, HAS ED SOME LOYALISTS TO NERVOLY LOOSEN THEIR BOWTI. WHEN THE TWO CHARACTERS FIRST MEET, SILVA NS HIS HAND DOWN BOND’S CHT, RSG A MANNER TYPILLY EMPLOYED ON BUXOM BOND GIRLS. ASKED IF HE’S BEG MA TO FEEL UNFORTABLE, BOND OLLY REPLI, “WHAT MAK YOU THK THIS IS MY FIRST TIME?”THE SCENE QUICKLY DOMATED HEADL AS AMERIN CRICS PREVIEWED SKYFALL AND AS THE FILM WAS RELEASED OVERSEAS. SILVA'S—AND BOND’S—SEXUAL PROCLIVI IS AMONG THE THGS BARM’S BEEN ASKED MOST ABOUT ON THE SKYFALL PRS TOUR. “WHAT N I SAY ABOUT THAT?” BARM SAYS, HIS MOUTH MORPHG TO A SLY GR. HE REUNTS A PRS NFERENCE DURG WHICH CRAIG WAS ASKED ABOUT THE SCENE. “SOMEONE SUGGTED THAT SILVA MAY BE GAY,” CRAIG SAID, SG MISCHIEVOLY. “AND I’M LIKE, I THK HE’LL FUCK ANYTHG.”“HE’S RIGHT,” BARM SAYS. “THIS GUY LIV ON AN ABANDONED ISLAND, AND HE’D DO ANYTHG TO REALLY CREATE A VERY UNFORTABLE SUATN.” AS FOR THE “IS BOND GAY?” HOOPLA BEG MA ABOUT SUCH A FLEETG LE EXCHANGE THE MOVIE: “WHAT PEOPLE MAKE OUT OF THAT, THAT WILL PEND ON THEIR OWN PERSONAL OPNS AND CERTATI.”THIS WEEK MARKED ANOTHER TONE FOR THE 43-YEAR-OLD OSR WNER. HE PRODUCED AND NARRATED THE NEW DOCUMENTARY SONS OF THE CLOUDS, WHICH SPOTLIGHTS THE POLIL AND HUMAN-RIGHTS PLIGHTS OF THE REFUGE OF WTERN SAHARA, A GROUP OF 100,000 PEOPLE WHO, AFTER THEIR FORMER SPANISH LONY BEME OCCUPIED, PART, BY MOROC, WERE FORCED TO LIVE REFUGEE MPS THE SERT.AFTER TRAVELG TO A REFUGEE MP—WHERE HE LIVED WH THE FAI THEIR TENTS—FOR A FILM FTIVAL FOUR YEARS AGO, BARM PARTNERED WH FILMMAKER ALVARO LONGORIA TO PRODUCE THE DOCUMENTARY FOUR YEARS AGO. AS MUCH AS SONS OF THE CLOUDS IS ABOUT THE PLIGHT OF THE WTERN SAHARAN PEOPLE, CHRONICL BARM AND LONGORIA’S TRATG CSA TO RAISE AWARENS OF THEIR STGGLE AND CRASH THROUGH THE BURECRATIC WALL TO ENACT CHANGE.THE DOCUMENTARY IS AVAILABLE ON ITUN AND BEME AVAILABLE ON VOD NOV. 6, A MARKED NTRAST OM THE RELEASE SKYFALL, WHICH HAS ALREADY SET TERNATNAL BOX-OFFICE RERDS. “I DIDN’T MAKE THE MOVIE TO BREAK THE BOX OFFICE, BUT TO BRG MORE ATTENTN TO THE PEOPLE,” BARM SAYS. “THEY’RE THE WORST POSSIBLE SCENAR, BUT THEY BELIEVE THE E AND KEEPS THEM WAG FOR THE RT OF THE WORLD TO SORT OUT THEIR SUATN.”THERE YOU GO. IN SKYFALL, BARM SKILLFULLY PLAYS A CYBERVILLA HELL-BENT ON STROYG MUCH OF THE WORLD. BUT REAL LIFE, HE IS TRYG TO SAVE . KEV FALLON
• FAMO HOMOEROTIC JAM BOND SCENE ALMOST 'TOO GAY' FOR STUD EXECS
• 'SKYFALL' WRER JOHN LOGAN ON JAM BOND'S 'GAY PAST'

JAM BOND’S GAY HT WAS ALMOST CUT OM SKYFALL, SAYS PRODUCER

Jam Bond’s ht Skyfall that he may have had a gay experience his past was a missn too far for stud executiv, acrdg to the film’s producer, who said she had to fight attempts to cut the scene. ”The signifince of the scene was wily bated at the time – screenwrer John Logan said was “playg the sort of homoerotic rd that is sort of always there [ Bond films]” – but acrdg to Brocli almost didn’t make the fal versn, a global smash that ma $1.

“I thk there’s a huge homoerotic unrtow a lot of Bond movi, ” he former 007 claimed Brocli would never allow a gay Bond her lifetime.

Speakg 2015, Pierce Brosnan said he was open to the ia of a gay 007 but the anchise’s gatekeeper might have different ias. ” said Brosnan, when asked whether he uld picture a gay Bond. I don’t thk Barbara would allow a gay Bond to happen her lifetime.

IS JAVIER BARM PLAYG THE FIRST GAY BOND VILLA 'SKYFALL'? BARM AND DIRECTOR SAM MENS WEIGH

Longtime Jam Bond anchise producer Barbara Brocli said the scene was viewed as too homoerotic for stud executiv, a ee Apple TV+ special available ahead of the release of No Time to Die on Oct.

Director Sam Mens add that spe Bond's reputatn as a womanizer "there's a huge homoerotic unrtow a lot of Bond movi. "Some people claim 's bee I'm, fact, gay but [that's] not te at all, " screenwrer John Logan told The Hollywood Reporter that same year.

No or Goldfger or whatever, and there's been so many ways to do a t-and-moe and timidate Bond, and we thought, what would tly make the dience unfortable is sexual timidatn; playg the sort of homoerotic rd that is sort of always there subtextually. The Bond star also addrsed speculatn that Barm's character was gay, to which he rpond, "I'm like, I thk he'll f--- anythg, " per Moviele. In 2015, former Bond character Pierce Brosnan told The Guardian that he supported the ia of a gay 007.

JAM BOND’S GAY HT WAS ALMOST CUT OM SKYFALL, SAYS BARBARA BROCLI

I don't thk Barbara would allow a gay Bond to happen her lifetime. Wilson are the heads of Eon Productns and have fal say on all thgs Bond, th the stud uldn’t overpower their cisn to keep the homoerotic moment the film. “Skyfall” director Sam Mens add, “I thk there’s a huge homoerotic unrtow a lot of Bond movi.

Craig said, “I don’t see the world sexual divisns…Someone suggted that Silva may be gay. Bond villas have always flirted wh homoeroticism.

SKYFALL STAR DANIEL CRAIG OPENS UP ON BOND VILLA RAOUL SILVA GAY MOURS

But the latt Bond stallment, Skyfall, Javier Barm ph the gay envelope farther than 's ever been phed before.

"I thk there's a huge homoerotic unrtow a lot of Bond movi, " says Mens. "Some people claim 's bee I'm, fact, gay but not te at all, " Logan told THR at the New York premiere of the film, held by Tribe Film Instute. No or Goldfger or whatever, and there’s been so many ways to do a t-and-moe and timidate Bond, and we thought, what would tly make the dience unfortable is sexual timidatn; playg the sort of homoerotic rd that is sort of always there subtextually wh characters like Sramanga 'Man Wh the Goln Gun' or 'Dr.

JAM BOND GAY: SKYFALL HOMOEROTIC SCENE IS A WK TO A YOUNGER AND MORE DIVERSE AUDIENCE

" Craig then add that while some have suggted Barm's Silva might be homosexual, he didn't agree.

Get our ee weekly email for all the latt cematic news om our film cric Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cematic email for eeA ht Skyfall that Jam Bond may have had a gay experience the past was almost cut om the 2012 film, acrdg to the anchise’s producer Barbara scene qutn saw Daniel Craig’s 007 taken hostage by the movie’s villa, Raoul Silva, played by Javier rs Bond’s cht and thigh while the hero is bound to a chair, and says: “You’re tryg to remember your trag now. “The night of the premiere, that le, jt the whole place rocked then… I remember lookg at the stud executive [and] gog, ‘See, told you, ’” said film’s director, Sam Mens, add: “I thk there’s a huge homoerotic unrtow a lot of Bond movi.

… Someone suggted that Silva may be gay. How would a gay or bisexual 007 impact the legacy of the character? Daniel Craig has opened up about mours that the new Jam Bond villa Skyfall uld be gay, sayg Raoul Silva would ‘f*** anythg’.

'JAM BOND' PRODUCER REVEALS THAT THE SECRET AGENT’S GAY EXPERIENCE WAS ALMOST CUT FROM 'SKYFALL'

He revealed: ‘Someone suggted Silva may be gay. But — and crics hail as the bt Bond film yet — people have started to speculate about the spy's sexualy bee of a scene which Daniel Craig and Javier Barm (who plays the villa) seem to engage some homoeroticism.

KEV FALLONSENR EDOR, OBSSEDUPDATED JUL. 14, 2017 2:10AM EDT / PUBLISHED NOV. 08, 2012 4:45AM EST GARETH CATTERMOLE / GETTY IMAGJAVIER BARM DON’T APPEAR UNTIL ABOUT 70 MUT TO SKYFALL.BUT BOY DO HE MAKE AN IMPRSN.THE JAM BOND FILM ANCHISE TURNED 50 THIS FALL, AND IS MEMORATG THE GOLN ANNIVERSARY WH THE RELEASE OF S 23RD FILM, SKYFALL, OUT AMERIN THEATERS NOV. 9. IT’S A REVERENT HOMAGE TO CLASSIC BOND WHILE TAKG THE ANCHISE A NEW DIRECTN. FANS GET THE CLOST THG YET TO A 007 BACKSTORY, WHILE THE FILM BRANDISH AN EMOTNAL THROUGH-LE THAT FIR AS SHARPLY AS DIRECTOR SAM MENS’S SLICK, EXPLOSIVE ACTN SEQUENC. WH EVERY ELEMENT OF SKYFALL AS POLISHED AS DANIEL CRAIG A TOM FORD SU, ’S NO SMALL PRAISE THAT BARM, PLAYG BLEACHED-BLOND CYBERTERRORIST AND PSYCHOPATH RAOUL SILVA, IS BOND 23’S UNNIABLE HIGHLIGHT.SKYFALL PRENTS A VULNERABLE, DOUBTFUL BOND (CRAIG), ONE WHO NS AWAY ON A MEDERRANEAN BENR AFTER HE’S PRUMED AD AND WHO, BETRAYG THE IN’S TYPIL SUAVE NFINCE, THKS HIS BT DAYS ARE BEHD HIM. IT’S BARM’S SILVA WHO, AFTER ORCHTRATG A VENGEFUL ATTACK ON M (JUDI DENCH) AND MI6, AND PROMISG ALL BRISH AGENTS, BRGS BOND BACK TO BTISH FORM. WHILE CLASSIC BOND VILLAS—BLOFELD, GOLDFGER—ARE LORFULLY RTOONISH THEIR NEFARNS, BARM, AS SILVA, SHAS A CHARACTERIZATN THAT IS CIDLY STIRRED, NOT SHAKEN. ARRIVG WH A SHOCK OF BLOND HAIR, AND PLAYFUL EY, AND WEARG A NEAR-PERPETUAL WILY SMIRK, HE PATS A TEXTURED PORTRA OF A MEGALOMANIAC, ONE WHOSE PA REVERBERAT THROUGH HIS MANIAL BAD-GUY LGH.“I WAS VERY STCK BY THE POWER OF THE MATERIAL,” BARM TELLS THE DAILY BEAST. “I SAID, ‘THIS ULD BE FUN.'”BARM’S GLORLY STAGED ENTRANCE, WHEN FALLY ARRIV, DRIPS WH GRANUR—A SGLE-TAKE SHOT OF SILVA SLKG TOWARD A BOUND BOND WHILE LIVERG A THEATRIL MONOLOGUE ABOUT METAPHORIL RATS AND THE ALLURE OF CYBERWARFARE. HOW THRILLED WAS BARM WHEN HE READ THE SCRIPT AND SAW HIS JUICY TRODUCTN? “I WAS NOT THAT EXCED,” HE SAYS, CHUCKLG. ESLATG THE PRSURE, BARM SAYS HE WASN’T TOLD UNTIL THE DAY OF SHOOTG THAT THE MONOLOGUE WOULD BE FILMED WH A SGLE, STEADY SHOT. “WHEN I SAW THE FILM AND SAW THE DISTANCE LOOKED LIKE I HAD TO WALK, I SAID, ‘THAT’S NOT FAIR! IT WAS WAY LONGER THAN THAT. IT LOOKS SO MUCH SHORTER!'”THAT BARM NAILS THE TRICKY SCENE SHOULDN’T SURPRISE ANYONE WHO HAS FOLLOWED HIS REER.HE’S EARNED AMY AWARDS NODS FOR HIS BREAKOUT ROLE AS THE LATE GAY CUBAN POET REALDO ARENAS BEFORE NIGHT FALLS AND HIS VASTATG PERFORMANCE AS A FATHER FACG TERMAL ILLNS BIUTIFUL. IN 2007, HE WON BT SUPPORTG ACTOR FOR PLAYG TERRIFYG KILLER ANTON CHIGURH NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN.HIS PERSONAL LIFE TCH THE UNRSTANDABLE ATTENTN OF TABLOID RAGS AND PAPARAZZI LENS—HE AND PENéLOPE CZ ARE NOT ONLY AMONG THE WORLD’S MOST UNFAIRLY BETIFUL MARRIED UPL, THEY HAVE A CHILD TOGETHER—BUT HE FAMOLY NEVER DISCS HIS FAY WH THE PRS. THE BARM-CZ CLAN RIS MADRID, WHERE BARM NS A BAR WH HIS SISTER WHEN HE’S NOT ACTG. HE LLS GOG TO L.A. TO SHOOT MOVI “GOG TO THE OFFICE.”IT’S WORTH NOTG, HOWEVER, THAT SPE HIS A-LIST REGNN AND AWARDS SUCCS, BARM HAS NEVER TOP-LED A BOX-OFFICE SMASH. SO WHAT PERSUAS AN ACTOR WHO STICKS LARGELY TO SPANISH-LANGUAGE AND PENNT FILMS AND ROUTELY REJECTS THE FLASHG-BULB CIRC OF HOLLYWOOD TO SIGN ON FOR AN STALLMENT OF ONE OF FILM’S MOST INIC—AND WILY SEEN—ANCHIS? MENS, HE SAYS, PLAYED A LARGE PART THE NVCG, AS DID THE HALLOWED LL SHEET OF ACTORS WHO WOULD BE JOG HIM ON SCREEN: JUDI DENCH, RALPH FIENN, ALBERT FNEY, AND DANIEL CRAIG.BUT PERHAPS THE MOST PERSUASIVE PERSON GETTG HIM TO AGREE TO THE PART WAS 007 HIMSELF. “JAM BOND IS JAM BOND EVERYWHERE,” HE SAYS. “I REMEMBER THE FIRST ONE I SAW WAS MOONRAKER. I WAS 12. I WAS WH MY FATHER. I REMEMBER LOOKG FORWARD TO AND WAG FOR THE NEXT BOND MOVIE. SO BEG A PART OF THAT IS A GREAT PRIVILEGE, PECIALLY BEG A PART OF THIS MOVIE, SPECIFILLY, BEE ’S THE ONE THAT CELEBRAT 50 YEARS.” THROUGHOUT BARM’S REER THERE HAVE BEEN MEMORABLE TURNS: AS THE SIZZLG SPANIARD UGHT A LOVE QUADRANGLE VICKY CRISTA BARCELONA, AND THE HUNKY FOC OF THE “LOVE” NARRATIVE EAT PRAY LOVE. BUT CHIGURH NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN REMAS THE ROLE FOR WHICH BARM IS MOST KNOWN.IN THE FILM, BARM’S SCER EY, ALMOST BUG-LIKE, ARE STEELY AND WI. HIS SK TONE IS MA TO LOOK NEARLY JNDICED, NTRASTG WH HIS PALE, PLUMP LIPS. HIS LOOK AS THE THLS ASSASS IS SO NATURALLY MENACG THAT THE MEASURED LIVERY OF THE LE, “HOLD STILL,” BEFORE HE WAST A TARGET CHILLS TO THE BONE. NOW LIBLE, CHIGURH RANKS HIGH ON NUMERO LISTS OF BT MOVIE VILLAS.ALREADY SO LIBLY TIED TO ONE INIC FILM BADDIE, BARM WAS NCERNED ABOUT PLAYG ANOTHER. ESPECIALLY, SCE, ONCE AGA, THIS CHARACTER SPORTS UTTERLY RIDICULO HAIR. AS MUCH TALK AS BARM’S BRILLIANT TURN NO COUNTRY RECEIVED 2007, THERE WAS NEARLY EQUAL FOC ON THE LGHABLY HIO PAGEBOY HAIRSTYLE HE WEARS THE FILM. THE SKYFALL OUTFTG MAY BE EVEN MORE ABSURD. AS SILVA, BARM DONS TACKY WHE LEN SUS AND A BLEACHED-BLOND SHAG THAT IS SEEMGLY SPIRED BY A BATN OF JULIAN ASSANGE’S MOP, A HALLOWEEN STUME WIG FOR FRED OM SOBY-DOO, AND THE PELT OF AN ALBO RONT. AND JT AS NO COUNTRY, THE PLETED LOOK IS, SOMEHOW, ABSOLUTELY TERRIFYG.WHILE HE HAD IAL RERVATNS THAT SILVA WOULD “BE MORE OF THE SAME,” BARM SAYS THAT AN EARLY NVERSATN WH MENS LEFT HIM REASSURED THAT THIS WAS AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT CHARACTER.IT’S ALSO AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT KD OF BIG BADDIE FOR BOND. AUDIENC ARE MORE THAN FAIAR WH BOND’S LICENSE TO LADYKILL—STEAMY TRYSTS WH HOLLYWOOD’S HOTTIE DU JOUR ARE AS TEGRAL TO THE 007 ANCHISE AS CHASE SCEN AND MARTIS. BUT SILVA MAY BE THE FIRST BOND VILLA TO BE CHARACTERIZED AS AS SEXUAL AS HIS FOE.ONE PARTICULAR EROTILLY CHARGED SCENE BETWEEN SILVA AND, Y, BOND, HAS ED SOME LOYALISTS TO NERVOLY LOOSEN THEIR BOWTI. WHEN THE TWO CHARACTERS FIRST MEET, SILVA NS HIS HAND DOWN BOND’S CHT, RSG A MANNER TYPILLY EMPLOYED ON BUXOM BOND GIRLS. ASKED IF HE’S BEG MA TO FEEL UNFORTABLE, BOND OLLY REPLI, “WHAT MAK YOU THK THIS IS MY FIRST TIME?”THE SCENE QUICKLY DOMATED HEADL AS AMERIN CRICS PREVIEWED SKYFALL AND AS THE FILM WAS RELEASED OVERSEAS. SILVA'S—AND BOND’S—SEXUAL PROCLIVI IS AMONG THE THGS BARM’S BEEN ASKED MOST ABOUT ON THE SKYFALL PRS TOUR. “WHAT N I SAY ABOUT THAT?” BARM SAYS, HIS MOUTH MORPHG TO A SLY GR. HE REUNTS A PRS NFERENCE DURG WHICH CRAIG WAS ASKED ABOUT THE SCENE. “SOMEONE SUGGTED THAT SILVA MAY BE GAY,” CRAIG SAID, SG MISCHIEVOLY. “AND I’M LIKE, I THK HE’LL FUCK ANYTHG.”“HE’S RIGHT,” BARM SAYS. “THIS GUY LIV ON AN ABANDONED ISLAND, AND HE’D DO ANYTHG TO REALLY CREATE A VERY UNFORTABLE SUATN.” AS FOR THE “IS BOND GAY?” HOOPLA BEG MA ABOUT SUCH A FLEETG LE EXCHANGE THE MOVIE: “WHAT PEOPLE MAKE OUT OF THAT, THAT WILL PEND ON THEIR OWN PERSONAL OPNS AND CERTATI.”THIS WEEK MARKED ANOTHER TONE FOR THE 43-YEAR-OLD OSR WNER. HE PRODUCED AND NARRATED THE NEW DOCUMENTARY SONS OF THE CLOUDS, WHICH SPOTLIGHTS THE POLIL AND HUMAN-RIGHTS PLIGHTS OF THE REFUGE OF WTERN SAHARA, A GROUP OF 100,000 PEOPLE WHO, AFTER THEIR FORMER SPANISH LONY BEME OCCUPIED, PART, BY MOROC, WERE FORCED TO LIVE REFUGEE MPS THE SERT.AFTER TRAVELG TO A REFUGEE MP—WHERE HE LIVED WH THE FAI THEIR TENTS—FOR A FILM FTIVAL FOUR YEARS AGO, BARM PARTNERED WH FILMMAKER ALVARO LONGORIA TO PRODUCE THE DOCUMENTARY FOUR YEARS AGO. AS MUCH AS SONS OF THE CLOUDS IS ABOUT THE PLIGHT OF THE WTERN SAHARAN PEOPLE, CHRONICL BARM AND LONGORIA’S TRATG CSA TO RAISE AWARENS OF THEIR STGGLE AND CRASH THROUGH THE BURECRATIC WALL TO ENACT CHANGE.THE DOCUMENTARY IS AVAILABLE ON ITUN AND BEME AVAILABLE ON VOD NOV. 6, A MARKED NTRAST OM THE RELEASE SKYFALL, WHICH HAS ALREADY SET TERNATNAL BOX-OFFICE RERDS. “I DIDN’T MAKE THE MOVIE TO BREAK THE BOX OFFICE, BUT TO BRG MORE ATTENTN TO THE PEOPLE,” BARM SAYS. “THEY’RE THE WORST POSSIBLE SCENAR, BUT THEY BELIEVE THE E AND KEEPS THEM WAG FOR THE RT OF THE WORLD TO SORT OUT THEIR SUATN.”THERE YOU GO. IN SKYFALL, BARM SKILLFULLY PLAYS A CYBERVILLA HELL-BENT ON STROYG MUCH OF THE WORLD. BUT REAL LIFE, HE IS TRYG TO SAVE . KEV FALLON

Though Barm addrsed the scene — where his character Raoul Silva has Bond immobilized a chair while "explorg" his body — as a way of creatg "unfortable suatns beyond fear and terror” (and Craig nied Barm's character is gay or straight), the scene serv the movie a uple of ways. First, provis a lot of ee publicy by brgg up an issue still nsired as ntroversial by many (homosexualy) to a film and a character who epomiz heterosexualy. By puttg womanizer Bond a homoerotic suatn, the producers of the film guarantee tons of prs verage foced on the character's supposed bisexualy (which, turn, helps to promote the movie).

Sendly, unlike the GOP, the anchise may have found proof of a younger and more diverse Amerin dience which — as evinced by the rults of the 2012 electns — is more open to gay rights. Though neher Jam Bond nor Daniel Craig (or Javier Barn, for that matter) are gay, their homoerotic teractn uld well be a wk to gay members of the broar dience who uld intify wh a more morn — and ls chvistic — versn of wouldn't be the only market segmentatn appeal attempted by the producers of Skyfall, as has been duly noted that the movie's swch om the tradnal "shaken not stirred" marti historilly enjoyed by classic Bonds om Sean Connery to Pierce Brosnan has now been substuted by a more youthful Heeken. "Skyfall" featur a homoerotic exchange between Bond and the movie's villa.

"Someone suggted that Silva may be gay. However, acrdg to a new documentary on the inic pop culture figure, one particular torture scene was almost emed "too gay" to be clud the Skyfall, one such moment was particularly horny -- and particularly gay.

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In Beg Jam Bond, a new Apple TV special celebratg Daniel Craig’s Bond as we approach the release of No Time To Die, Brocli discsed the “homoerotic” scene that occurs between Jam Bond and bad guy Raoul Silva, who is played wh arch, exquise menace by Javier Barm. Here’s the scene excerpted, om a vio tled “Skyfall – Gay Scene, ” which has many hundreds of thoands of views. And even if we’re not tend to dive anythg ncrete about Bond’s proclivi, ’s a rehg rejectn of the “no homo” vib we see all too often, pecially big-budget movi based on longstandg tellectual properti.

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'” The Inpennt, which terms the le a “gay ht, ” not that after Brocli’s ments, director Sam Mens add, “I thk there’s a huge homoerotic unrtow a lot of Bond movi. Not only do we receive a rejectn of gay panic om Bond, the actn hero, but the scene is a knowg sp on the queer-d villa by makg subtext actually textual. Longstandg Jam Bond producer Barbara Brolli recently spoke about a scene Skyfall that has dited the secret agent once had a gay experience.

'”That Barm nails the tricky scene shouldn’t surprise anyone who has followed his ’s earned Amy Awards nods for his breakout role as the late gay Cuban poet Realdo Arenas Before Night Falls and his vastatg performance as a father facg termal illns Biutiful.

“Someone suggted that Silva may be gay, ” Craig said, sg mischievoly. ” As for the “Is Bond gay?