Ben Whishaw, who plays Q the seri, has suggted openly gay actors, Le Evans and "Bridgerton" star Jonathan Bailey, for the role.
Contents:
- DANIEL CRAIG: JAM BOND STAR REVEALS WHY HE GO TO GAY BARS
- LE EVANS ADDRS MOURS HE ULD BE FIRST GAY JAM BOND: ‘I DON’T THK MATTERS’
- THE GAY MAN WH THE GOLN GUN
- 'NO TIME TO DIE' HTS Q IS GAY LANDMARK LGBTQ+ SCENE
- ‘I KNEW WAS A URAGEO THG TO DO’: THE CUR STORY OF BOND’S FIRST GAY VILLAS
- 'NO TIME TO DIE' ACTOR BEN WHISHAW WANTS A GAY JAM BOND: 'THAT WOULD BE REAL PROGRS'
DANIEL CRAIG: JAM BOND STAR REVEALS WHY HE GO TO GAY BARS
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 * gay couple james bond *
In the 1950s, homosexual acts, or at least on volvg mal, were agast the law the Uned Kgdom.
In the post-war perd, a number of real-life Brish spi, such as the Cambridge Four fected to the Soviets, and some of them, such as Guy Burgs and Antony Blunt were attracted to men, which helped create a negative image of gay spi. Lren Spungen cricized the portrayal argug that the "battle between heterosexualy and homosexualy" is a metaphor for the battle of "good and evil".
He forms part of the gay gentleman's outfter trope, which n be found Brish culture om ss such as Are you beg Served? It is subtly hted that he may be a relatnship wh Q, if so that would make this film's Q the first gay one until Ben Whishaw. Fordyce is a Bond ally, but also reprents a mcg stereotype of a gay man.
LE EVANS ADDRS MOURS HE ULD BE FIRST GAY JAM BOND: ‘I DON’T THK MATTERS’
Wt and Kidd who never refer to each other by first name the film of Diamond Are Forever are a gay male uple. In the novel Kidd is nicknamed varly "Dolly" or "Boofy" (the latter nickname also ed the film), and Felix Leer says he spects Kidd “probably shacks up wh Wt”, and says "some of the homos mak the worst killers". Actor Javier Barm who plays Silva, when asked if the character was gay or bisexual said, “You uld read that way.
Ben Whishaw's Q is shown to be a gay man No Time to Die, and is wag for a male date the film. Ben Whishaw himself is a gay man real life. This is the first time one of Bond's "support team" has been shown to be openly gay, but was not ma obv earlier appearanc of Ben Whishaw's prev portrayals of the character.
THE GAY MAN WH THE GOLN GUN
The 1967 Caso Royale film has s own mp Q, but is not clear if he is gay (he do have a spat wh Fordyce), although Geofey Bayldon himself was. Assistant Commissner Ronnie Vallance appears the novel of Moonraker, and is not gay. While wag for his ntact, Assistant Commissner Ronnie Vallance, he be creasgly ncerned that he might be mistaken for eher a crimal or one of the fluential people “sperately hopg to persu Vallance that their sons were not really homosexuals”.
It’s a remr that 1955, when Moonraker was published, homosexual acts were still crimal offenc. In the novel of The Man wh the Goln Gun, M mentns a "popular theory that a man who nnot whistle has homosexual tennci" and is noted that Sramanga nnot do so.
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'NO TIME TO DIE' HTS Q IS GAY LANDMARK LGBTQ+ SCENE
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Daniel Craig has revealed that he go to gay bars to avoid "aggrsive" men, havg grown "sick" of gettg to Jam Bond actor, who has jt released his fifth and fal film as 007, No Time To Die, said was tired of the "aggrsive d*** swgg hetero bars". "I've been gog to gay bars for as long as I n remember, " he said. "And one of the reasons - bee I don't get to fights gay bars that often.
‘I KNEW WAS A URAGEO THG TO DO’: THE CUR STORY OF BOND’S FIRST GAY VILLAS
The 53-year-old told Bce Bozzi on his SiriXM podst, Lunch Wh Bce, he felt gay bars "would jt be a good place to go". "You may also be terted :Elk livg wh tyre around neck for two years is fally eeNew antibody jectn able to prevent and treat COVID, study showsSky to replace satelle dish and box wh smart TV setsCraig, who has been married to actrs Rachel Weisz sce 2011, also admted there were benefs to beg a man terted women a gay bar. Subscribe to the Backstage podst on Apple Podsts, Google Podsts, Spotify, SpreakerCraig and Bozzi remisced on how they had once untentnally generated media attentn after gettg "ught" together at a gay bar Venice Beach, California, 2010.
"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. " Craig then add that while some have suggted Barm's Silva might be homosexual, he didn't agree.
'NO TIME TO DIE' ACTOR BEN WHISHAW WANTS A GAY JAM BOND: 'THAT WOULD BE REAL PROGRS'
He was even highlighted by current Jam Bond star Ben Whishaw, who plays the technil mastermd Q the seri, as a good ndidate for a gay 007. Le Evans has said his sexualy is irrelevant to Jam Bond fans, amid mours he uld be the first out gay actor to play the role. Evans, a new terview wh Btle, was qutned on whether viewers were now ready for a gay actor to play Bond.
Evans, who has been openly gay sce he started his reer, hted at his tert playg the inic Brish spy, sayg he was “ready for all”. What is omted the movie, eher tentnally or not, is the ia that Sramanga has “possible homosexual tennci.
” Bizarrely, we are told the novel that there is a “popular theory that a man who nnot whistle has homosexual tennci” and Sramanga nnot whistle. ’ is rrect and Sramanga is homosexual?