'Jam Bond' Producers Reveal Secret Agent’s Gay Experience Almost Cut From 'Skyfall' | Hypebeast

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• JAM BOND’S GAY HT WAS ALMOST CUT OM SKYFALL, SAYS PRODUCER
• 'JAM BOND' PRODUCER REVEALS THAT THE SECRET AGENT’S GAY EXPERIENCE WAS ALMOST CUT FROM 'SKYFALL'
• FAMO HOMOEROTIC JAM BOND SCENE ALMOST 'TOO GAY' FOR STUD EXECS
• JAM BOND GAY: SKYFALL HOMOEROTIC SCENE IS A WK TO A YOUNGER AND MORE DIVERSE AUDIENCE
• JAM BOND’S GAY HT WAS ALMOST CUT OM SKYFALL, SAYS BARBARA BROCLI
• JAM BOND: HT AT GAY EXPERIENCE 007’S PAST ALMOST CUT OM SKYFALL, SAYS PRODUCER
• ‘EMPTY GTURE’: AARON SORK HS OUT AT STG OF GAY ACTORS GAY ROL

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. Longstandg Jam Bond producer Barbara Brolli recently spoke about a scene Skyfall that has dited the secret agent once had a gay experience. Bee the film is based on a memoir, proceeds episodilly, followg the young Arenas om his boyhood to his early acplishments as a poet and novelist through his imprisonment and later his pe to the Uned Stat durg Castro's 'purge' of unsirabl 1980 (the same means by which Tony Montana p Cuba 'Srface'), when crimals and homosexuals were ved to voluntarily expatriate to Miami so that the mand for basic rourc Cuba unr the US-led embargo uld be relieved somewhat.

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

The film spends nsirable time reflectg on Arenas' sexual iatn and his gay liftyle, which is slightly problematic that suggts that Arenas was persecuted solely for beg homosexual, which is at bt a half-tth. Wilson are the heads of Eon Productns and have fal say on all thgs Bond, th the stud uldn’t overpower their cisn to keep the homoerotic moment the film.

“Skyfall” director Sam Mens add, “I thk there’s a huge homoerotic unrtow a lot of Bond movi. Craig said, “I don’t see the world sexual divisns…Someone suggted that Silva may be gay.

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

” While Kunis do not return the fabor, the two share an credibly hot teractn the library stacks, before Saldana eventually adms that she is gay.

Amerins are well-versed this show’s Logo spoff, but the origal “Queer As Folk” is a much more phy and precise take on a group of gay iends livg Manchter the late ’90s/early ghts.

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

Although the story go that Redford sisted the character have tert women, his performance as closeted actor Wa Lewis is one of the earlit pictns of a gay or bisexual character Amerin film who is not ashamed and do not m suici. After playg gay Sulu “Star Trek: Beyond, ” the “Harold and Kumar” star embodied a bona fi out gay man as Billy Eichner’s first-ever boyiend on this tragilly short-lived Hulu edy. It still managed to gross upwards of $20 ln worldwi even after the explic gay ntent led to a botched limed release.

Frh off a hot streak wh “Cluels” and Baz Luhrmann’s “Romeo + Juliet, ” Pl Rudd played Jennifer Aniston’s gay bt iend whom she secretly lov this ’90s rom-. ”When I first saw the movie, I almost killed myself, ” he told The New York Tim about 2000's "Before Night Falls, " a film about the gay Cuban wrer Realdo Arenas, who died by suici amid an AIDS-related illns 1990.

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

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.

JAM BOND: HT AT GAY EXPERIENCE 007’S PAST ALMOST CUT OM SKYFALL, SAYS PRODUCER

RELATED | Benedict Cumberbatch Explas Why He's Playg Gay New Wtern Film. 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).

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. The te story of wrer Realdo Arenas (Javier Barm), who was born Cuba 1943, touch on his childhood, but ncentrat on the '60s and '70s, durg which time Arenas was nsired a unter-revolutnary by the Cuban ernment bee of his wrg, as well as his homosexualy.

‘EMPTY GTURE’: AARON SORK HS OUT AT STG OF GAY ACTORS GAY ROL

The ltle-discsed topic of the persecutn of homosexuals Castro's Cuba is the prevailg theme throughout Julan Schnabel's masterful film of the life of wrer Realdo Arenas. Arenas happens to be homosexual, which is unacceptable, and his poetry extols natural bety (which is, seems, seen as unter-revolutnary). We jt don't feel like we get to know very well the man at s film, which spans five s (om 1943 - 1990), stars the brilliant Javier Barm as Arenas, a homosexual wrer ught a culture openly hostile to both homosexuals and wrers.

Th, for a while at least, Arenas is allowed to exprs fairly openly his homosexual nature.

Yet, at the same time, the ernment has set up ncentratn mps filled wh gays and other polil prisoners. This match perfectly the rather exotic nature of Arenas himself, a man who seems to be torn between acceptg his homosexualy and fightg the mons that e along wh beg a societal outst.