Jam Bond walks to a gay bar. But should he?

Contents:

• 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
• 'JAM BOND' PRODUCER REVEALS THAT THE SECRET AGENT’S GAY EXPERIENCE WAS ALMOST CUT FROM 'SKYFALL'
• JAM BOND: HT AT GAY EXPERIENCE 007’S PAST ALMOST CUT OM SKYFALL, SAYS PRODUCER
• 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 BARBARA BROCLI
• JAM BOND WALKS TO A GAY BAR. BUT SHOULD HE?
• JAM BOND’S GAY HT MOMENT WAS ALMOST CUT OM SKYFALL
• 'NO TIME TO DIE' HTS Q IS GAY LANDMARK LGBTQ+ SCENE
• BEN WHISHAW SAYS HE FOUND HIS 'JAM BOND' GAY CHARACTER REVEAL 'UNSATISFYG'
• 'NO TIME TO DIE' ACTOR BEN WHISHAW WANTS A GAY JAM BOND: 'THAT WOULD BE REAL PROGRS'
• JAM BOND: GAY HT WAS ALMOST CUT OM SKYFALL, SAYS FILM'S PRODUCER
• BOND’S BEN WHISHAW WANTS GAY ACTOR TO REPLACE DANIEL CRAIG, AND HE KNOWS TWO ‘IAL’ MEN
• BEN WHISHAW UNSATISFIED BY HIS BOND CHARACTER’S GAY REVEAL: I THOUGHT ABOUT QUTNG IT

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.

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

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. “He didn’t know me, so he thought I was gay.

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

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”. 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. Flemg was himself known to have disda for open exprsns of homosexualy.

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

Mgham’s homosexualy may have been subtly referenced Quantum of Solace, a short story by Flemg about the dwdlg fort a lovg relatnship n provi. And th far, only a few villas have been gay — a fleetg ht of chemistry wh Silva Skyfall‘s leted scene, and two silly henchmen Diamonds Are Forever.

Longstandg Jam Bond producer Barbara Brolli recently spoke about a scene Skyfall that has dited the secret agent once had a gay experience. ”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.

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

Speakg 2015, Pierce Brosnan said he was open to the ia of a gay 007 but the anchise's gatekeeper might have different ias. 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 BARBARA BROCLI

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.

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.

JAM BOND WALKS TO A GAY BAR. BUT SHOULD HE?

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. 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.

“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. 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’S GAY HT MOMENT WAS ALMOST CUT OM SKYFALL

RELATED | Benedict Cumberbatch Explas Why He's Playg Gay New Wtern Film. 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. " "One of the reasons: bee I don't get to fights gay bars that often.

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

"Gay bars, Craig add, "would jt be a good place to go. "Craig, who has been married to the Brish actor Rachel Weisz for 10 years, add that he went to gay bars his youth to meet sgle reactn onle om the LGBTQ muny was mixed.

BEN WHISHAW SAYS HE FOUND HIS 'JAM BOND' GAY CHARACTER REVEAL 'UNSATISFYG'

"But others said Craig and other straight people gog to gay bars “ at the expense” of LGBTQ spac. "If gay bars are *full* of straight people then they aren't gay bars any more, " one er wrote on Twter.

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

"The bate over straight people's place gay and lbian bars as mass of LGBTQ bars have closed over the last several 2007 to 2019, 37 percent of the natn's gay bars closed, acrdg to a 2019 study by Greggor Mattson, an associate profsor of soclogy at Oberl College. ’s only the lol gay bar where you n fd a genr-clive rtroom or a bullet board where LGBTQ+ bs owners are advertisg their servic or a bartenr who n direct you to a place to apply for an LGBTQ+ iendly job.

"We don’t get to put on a gay hat jt like when we feel like . "Y, the vulnerabily of gay spac, but how about the brokenns of straight bars that even a famo, buff guy don’t feel safe gog out?

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.

JAM BOND: GAY HT WAS ALMOST CUT OM SKYFALL, SAYS FILM'S PRODUCER

Director Sir Sam Mens add of the inic moment: ‘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). Avengers: Endgame h the headl for a scene which a man mourns the loss of his male partner durg "The Blip, " for example, while the more recent Jungle Cise featur a scene which Jack Whehall's character some have praised the scen, others have cricised them for beg mor moments that are tratgly y, that avoid speakg plaly about characters' gay liv.

Meanwhile, some viewers have poted out that the films should seek to tegrate their characters' sexuali throughout the film, rather than talk about them short clips that seem to be signed so they n easily be cut out untri wh anti-gay laws and sentiments. As No Time to Die has only been released a few untri so far, however, remas to be seen whether the film will ed this scene ls tolerant this Q scene may only be a mor moment, is a landmark a anchise that has prevly had gay villas, wh their homosexualy d as part of what mak them so example, the novel Diamonds are Forever, Felix Leer spects that sadistic killers Mr. Kidd are gay – somethg the movie leans to by havg them hold hands and say that one character is attractive "for a lady.

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

The latt Bond movie "No Time to Die" hts that the character is gay. 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. Whishaw, who me out himself 2013, has prevly played gay characters like Norman Stt A Very English Sndal and Danny Holt London Spy.

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

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. Durg a recent terview wh The Guardian, Whishaw — who is gay — said that he had been disappoted by how brief the scene was when he first read the film's script. However, Whishaw fend MGM — who produced the film — om accatns om crics who said the stud was strong-armed to wrg Q as a gay character.

"And this go not jt for gay Bond fans like me, but the lbian Bond fans, bisexual Bond fans, trans Bond fans. ’” For gay men who might otherwise feel different to their straight unterparts, not least other men their fai, Bond n serve as wele ntral terrory.

“Queer characters are, of urse, more explicly reprented as villas throughout the seri, wh Wt and Kidd [Diamonds are Forever], Rosa Klebb [From Rsia Wh Love] and Raoul Silva [Skyfall], " pots out Calv Dyson, a popular Bond YouTuber who intifi as gay. ”Then there's the load homoeroticism of movi like GolnEye and Skyfall, the former of which feels pecially tough retrospect not to read as a gay breakup narrative. Pierce Brosnan's 1995 but — the first post-Cold War Bond movie, g when pop culture had shifted away om the mcle-macho archetype of the ‘80s — feels pecially ripe for gay review.