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• JAM BOND’S GAY HT WAS ALMOST CUT OM SKYFALL, SAYS PRODUCER
• JAM BOND'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER REVEAL NO TIME TO DIE MA ME TEAR UP
• DANIEL CRAIG: JAM BOND STAR REVEALS WHY HE GO TO GAY BARS
• JAM BOND’S GAY HT WAS ALMOST CUT OM SKYFALL, SAYS BARBARA BROCLI
• FAMO HOMOEROTIC JAM BOND SCENE ALMOST 'TOO GAY' FOR STUD EXECS
• JAM BOND IS GAY
• DANIEL CRAIG: GAY JAM BOND NEVER GOG TO HAPPEN
• ‘I KNEW WAS A URAGEO THG TO DO’: THE CUR STORY OF BOND’S FIRST GAY VILLAS
• JAM BOND WALKS TO A GAY BAR. BUT SHOULD HE?
• 'NO TIME TO DIE' HTS Q IS GAY LANDMARK LGBTQ+ SCENE
• 'NO TIME TO DIE' ACTOR BEN WHISHAW WANTS A GAY JAM BOND: 'THAT WOULD BE REAL PROGRS'
• WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW IS A GAY JAM BOND
• BEN WHISHAW UNSATISFIED BY HIS BOND CHARACTER’S GAY REVEAL: I THOUGHT ABOUT QUTNG IT
• BOND’S BEN WHISHAW WANTS GAY ACTOR TO REPLACE DANIEL CRAIG, AND HE KNOWS TWO ‘IAL’ MEN

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

FAMO HOMOEROTIC JAM BOND SCENE ALMOST 'TOO GAY' FOR STUD EXECS

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. 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.

JAM BOND IS 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. RELATED | Benedict Cumberbatch Explas Why He's Playg Gay New Wtern Film.

DANIEL CRAIG: GAY JAM BOND NEVER GOG TO HAPPEN

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.

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

“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.

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.

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.

'NO TIME TO DIE' HTS Q IS GAY LANDMARK LGBTQ+ SCENE

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.

The somewhat homoerotic moment climax wh Bond teasg, "What mak you thk this is my first time?

"Well, Bond is not gay. "No, " Craig said when I asked if he uld ever image a "gay Jam Bond. "Bee he's not gay, " he said.

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

"Back 1999, out gay actor Rupert Everett created a firtorm of headl when he announced that he was wrg and planng to star a movie about a gay Jam Bond. 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.

WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW IS A GAY JAM BOND

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. ”Lowbridge-Ellis go so far as to pots out that much about the characters is, actually, “unniably homophobic”.

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

From the way Mr Wt was dispatched wh a bomb up his backsi to the obv fact that here were two straight men makg margalised gay men the butt of their jok, ’s easy to argue how Wt and Kidd were explog the LGBT+ muny rather than supportg by simply beg onscreen, the duo had reprented the gay muny – and ma a whole crowd cludg myself feel seen – whether their creators had tend to or not. Actor Daniel Craig, bt known for playg the dashg and cidly heterosexual Jam Bond, ma headwds this week when he revealed that he is a big fan of gay bars. "I’ve been gog to gay bars for as long as I n remember, ” Craig, 53, said Tuday on the podst "Lunch Wh Bce.

BOND’S BEN WHISHAW WANTS GAY ACTOR TO REPLACE DANIEL CRAIG, AND HE KNOWS TWO ‘IAL’ MEN

" "One of the reasons: bee I don't get to fights gay bars that often.