There’s been excement about Q’s queer revelatn ‘No Time to Die’ but the anchise’s first gay characters appeared all the way back 1971’s ‘Diamonds Are Forever’. Fifty years on, Adam Bloodworth talks to the actors who played Mr Wt and Mr Kidd about why they’re worth celebratg
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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
- ‘I KNEW WAS A URAGEO THG TO DO’: THE CUR STORY OF BOND’S FIRST GAY VILLAS
- FAMO HOMOEROTIC JAM BOND SCENE ALMOST 'TOO GAY' FOR STUD EXECS
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. 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. Nila Dove/MGMThis isn't to say there haven't been implied queer characters or super gay moments before.
JAM BOND’S GAY HT WAS ALMOST CUT OM SKYFALL, SAYS PRODUCER
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.
‘I KNEW WAS A URAGEO THG TO DO’: THE CUR STORY OF BOND’S FIRST GAY VILLAS
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. 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. ”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.
FAMO HOMOEROTIC JAM BOND SCENE ALMOST 'TOO GAY' FOR STUD EXECS
“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. This isn’t to give eher of those away, but to divulge a third: that Bond’s handy gadget man, Q, is gay. )All of which mak gay henchmen Mr Wt and Mr Kidd back 1971’s Diamonds Are Forever, all the more remarkable.
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. Glover, who is now 89, remembers the star beg unfortable wh homoerotic jok durg the shoot.