‘I knew was a urageo thg to do’: The cur story of Bond’s first gay villas | The Inpennt

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• JAM BOND'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER REVEAL NO TIME TO DIE MA ME TEAR UP
• JAM BOND’S GAY HT WAS ALMOST CUT OM SKYFALL, SAYS PRODUCER
• JAM BOND IS GAY
• ‘I KNEW WAS A URAGEO THG TO DO’: THE CUR STORY OF BOND’S FIRST GAY VILLAS
• DANIEL CRAIG: JAM BOND STAR REVEALS WHY HE GO TO GAY BARS
• DANIEL CRAIG: GAY JAM BOND NEVER GOG TO HAPPEN
• 'JAM BOND' PRODUCER REVEALS THAT THE SECRET AGENT’S GAY EXPERIENCE WAS ALMOST CUT FROM 'SKYFALL'
• BEN WHISHAW UNSATISFIED BY HIS BOND CHARACTER’S GAY REVEAL: I THOUGHT ABOUT QUTNG IT
• JAM BOND WALKS TO A GAY BAR. BUT SHOULD HE?
• THIS CLASSIC BOND CHARACTER MAY BE GAY 'NO TIME TO DIE'
• 'NO TIME TO DIE' ACTOR BEN WHISHAW WANTS A GAY JAM BOND: 'THAT WOULD BE REAL PROGRS'
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

JAM BOND'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER REVEAL NO TIME TO DIE MA ME TEAR UP

is no doubt one of the most macho movie anchis of all time, but om the moment I saw Golneye as a ltle gay kid at a iend's hoe, I was hooked. But Bond movi also feature badass and fabulo women, tons of drama and some ser emotnal moments -- exactly what a ltle gay kid Craig's turn as Bond has shaken thgs up, serly mornizg the anchise terms of both style and story.

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

No Time to Die is the 25th official Bond movie and Craig's last -- and troduc the anchise's first out gay character a moment that got me One light spoiler ahead. It's the first time ever a Jam Bond movie that a character has been explicly gay, and 's actually acknowledged out loud, no ls.

JAM BOND IS GAY

Nila Dove/MGMThis isn't to say there haven't been implied queer characters or super gay moments before.

‘I KNEW WAS A URAGEO THG TO DO’: THE CUR STORY OF BOND’S FIRST GAY VILLAS

In Skyfall, Bond and villa Silva (Javier Barm) have a homoerotic terrogatn scene -- and don't even get me started on the naked torture sequence Caso Royale. Havg a ma supportg character be openly gay a anchise like Bond is a big al, ma better by the fact that Whishaw is gay himself. And bee Q appears every Bond movie and is sometim played by the same actor even when Bond is rest, Whishaw's gay Q uld appear future Bond movi.

DANIEL CRAIG: JAM BOND STAR REVEALS WHY HE GO TO GAY BARS

13:19Pl, No Time to Die is jt one of the mpit and gayt Jam Bond movi ever. Ana Armas' cktail-chuggg character Paloma is stantly inic, exactly what gays want om a Bond girl: betiful, funny and jt pla badass.

While I doubt we'll see a gay Jam Bond anytime soon, the hope of more progrsive stori and character reprentatn has me exced for what Time To Die was released Sept. 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.

DANIEL CRAIG: GAY JAM BOND NEVER GOG TO HAPPEN

”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.

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

"Someone suggted that Silva may be gay, " Craig said wh a big se. "Barm ma some statements of his own--"It was part of the game, but 's not entirely the game"--that seemed to reflect an ia that wasn't about sex, was about whatever the se, there's always been air of around Bond, and his ease wh jumpg to the sack wh anyone, no matter what the nsequenc, seem to pot more to his sexual slippers rather than any clearly fed fact, the homophobic nature of the secret servic was a realy and U. Secret agents were gay was often seen as a secury risk.

In Tker Tailor Soldier Spy, the adaptatn of John le Carre's novel, an agent is revealed to be gay, and he mt break up wh his partner due to a secury risk.

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.

BEN WHISHAW UNSATISFIED BY HIS BOND CHARACTER’S GAY REVEAL: I THOUGHT ABOUT QUTNG IT

RELATED | Benedict Cumberbatch Explas Why He's Playg Gay New Wtern Film. Skip to ntentWe jt didn’t realize until Daniel Craig protted way too much:Daniel Craig, the current Jam Bond, gave a long-wd explanatn that he has always equented gay bars om the time he was young, bee he lik the fact they are ee of the ttosterone regular bars, where he always got to fights and brawls, pl girls go to gay bars, and so he had an ulterr motive gog there, bee he is so to women. The reason for the whole exposn was, he was seen a photo kissg another man a gay bar.

JAM BOND WALKS TO A GAY BAR. BUT SHOULD HE?

He explaed that was jt him and the guy jokg around, they had been hangg out as bros and were havg a ltle fun pretendg to be be gay. In a gay, Daniel Craig is secretly gay, is married to a satanist, and isn’t leavg any of “his” money to his children.

I was on an openly gay rerd label the ’90s, and no one at Wax Trax! Was as obvly and nclively gay as that “explanatn” provid by Daniel Craig. It’s gayer than the Electric Six song.

This isn’t to give eher of those away, but to divulge a third: that Bond’s handy gadget man, Q, is gay.

THIS CLASSIC BOND CHARACTER MAY BE GAY 'NO TIME TO DIE'

)All of which mak gay henchmen Mr Wt and Mr Kidd back 1971’s Diamonds Are Forever, all the more remarkable.

'NO TIME TO DIE' ACTOR BEN WHISHAW WANTS A GAY JAM BOND: 'THAT WOULD BE REAL PROGRS'

To give some ntext, 1970, the year the film was shot, 70 per cent of Amerins thought homosexual relatns were wrong, while the UK was only three years to Wt and Mr Kidd were played by Bce Glover and Putter Smh, two straight men, but even then they reportedly riled Connery.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

Glover, who is now 89, remembers the star beg unfortable wh homoerotic jok durg the shoot.

“He didn’t know me, so he thought I was gay. Villas throughout cema history have tend to reflect current “fears” and attus, and homosexuals have a long history of beg vilified. It’s a topic wrer Vo Rso explor his semal 1981 book The Celluloid Closet, which ns through onscreen queer stereotypg om the Sixti to the Eighti, om Dr Frank-N-Furter The Rocky Horror Picture Show to Sharon Stone’s bisexual Cathere Tramell Basic and director Guy Haton were rponsible for nceivg the characters for the screen and feels as if they med edy orr to create gay characters sued to themselv and mastream dienc of the time.

“I didn’t want to be that kd of clichéd gay guy, ” Glover rells, thkg perhaps of the mpns of Richard Burton and Rex Harrison’s gay barbershop uple 1969’s Stairse.