Jam Bond’s gay ht was almost cut om Skyfall, says Barbara Brocli | The Inpennt

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• JAM BOND’S GAY HT WAS ALMOST CUT OM SKYFALL, SAYS PRODUCER
• JAM BOND’S GAY HT WAS ALMOST CUT OM SKYFALL, SAYS BARBARA BROCLI
• 'NO TIME TO DIE' HTS Q IS GAY LANDMARK LGBTQ+ SCENE
• JAM BOND’S GAY HT MOMENT WAS ALMOST CUT OM SKYFALL
• JAM BOND’S GAY HT IN ‘SKYFALL’ WAS ALMOST SCRAPPED, BARBARA BROCLI SAYS
• IS JAVIER BARM PLAYG THE FIRST GAY BOND VILLA 'SKYFALL'? BARM AND DIRECTOR SAM MENS WEIGH
• JAM BOND GAY: SKYFALL HOMOEROTIC SCENE IS A WK TO A YOUNGER AND MORE DIVERSE AUDIENCE
• JAM BOND PRODUCERS WERE TOLD TO CUT A LE ABOUT 007’S GAY PAST BY THE STUD, BUT ‘WE RISTED’
• FAMO HOMOEROTIC JAM BOND SCENE ALMOST 'TOO GAY' FOR STUD EXECS

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.

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

” 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.

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

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. No Time to Die featur a scene that seems to nfirm Ben Whishaw's Q is gay, makg his character the first ally of Jam Bond (played by Daniel Craig) to be out as a member of the LGBTQ+ the 007 anchise has prevly had characters that were d gay or were LGBTQ+ the Ian Flemg books, the were nearly all the new Bond movie (**spoilers ahead**), Bond and Moneypenny (Naomie Harris) make a surprise vis to Q's apartment to lnch a vert missn whout the knowledge of M (Ralph Fienn).

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Kidd are gay – somethg the movie leans to by havg them hold hands and say that one character is attractive "for a lady. The latt Bond movie "No Time to Die" hts that the character is gay.

JAM BOND’S GAY HT MOMENT WAS ALMOST CUT OM SKYFALL

The novel Goldfger featur the homophobic trope that Psy Galore only beme a lbian after beg sexually abed by a man. In the movie, meanwhile, she is d lbian, but is implied that Bond is able to turn her straight wh his male this Q scene No Time to Die suffers om the same problems as other morn blockbters that overpromise and unrliver on LGBTQ+ ntent, do speak for the efforts the anchise has ma to be more makers of Skyfall, for example, have spoken about havg to fight to keep a scene which Bond flirts wh Silva (Javier Barm) and hts at a prev gay experience.

JAM BOND’S GAY HT IN ‘SKYFALL’ WAS ALMOST SCRAPPED, BARBARA BROCLI SAYS

Whishaw, who me out himself 2013, has prevly played gay characters like Norman Stt A Very English Sndal and Danny Holt London Spy.

In 2019, The Sun reported that Whishaw was lobbyg the Bond team to clu a gay character – though this should be treated wh some scepticism, as filmg had already begun on the film when the report me recently, he has h headl for advotg for a gay actor to play Bond. “Some people claim ’s bee I’m, fact, gay but not te at all, ” Logan told The Hollywood Reporter at the NYC premiere of the film, thrown 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.

Whether the homoeroticism is a new rd or a jack tucked unr his tuxedo sleeve, there are certa well-known tradns that mt be upheld.

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

Jam Bond producer Barbara Brocli has revealed she had to fight to keep the moment which 007 hts at havg had a gay experience Skyfall. Wh the le seemg to imply that the secret agent had gay enunters the past, producer Barbara revealed: ‘I remember we were told to cut that le by the stud and we said no, no, no.

Director Sir Sam Mens add of the inic moment: ‘I thk there’s a huge homoerotic unrtow a lot of Bond movi.

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

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. That “Skyfall” scene which Jam Bond hted he’d had a past gay experience almost got cut, producer Barbara Brocli has revealed.

Pierce Brosnan prevly spoke about the possibily of havg a gay 007 a 2015 terview. Bond villas have always flirted wh homoeroticism. But the latt Bond stallment, Skyfall, Javier Barm ph the gay envelope farther than 's ever been phed before.

JAM BOND PRODUCERS WERE TOLD TO CUT A LE ABOUT 007’S GAY PAST BY THE STUD, BUT ‘WE RISTED’

"I thk there's a huge homoerotic unrtow a lot of Bond movi, " says Mens. … Someone suggted that Silva may be gay. How would a gay or bisexual 007 impact the legacy of the character?

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. 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).

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

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.