Ben Whishaw, the Brish actor who began his role as gadget gu Q the latt Jam Bond movie Skyfall, has nfirmed he is gay and married to boyiend Mark Bradshaw. Whishaw, 32, tied the knot wh Bradshaw 30, ...
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- BEN WHISHAW CONFIRMS HE IS GAY. AND MARRIED. SO THERE.
- BEN WHISHAW EXPLAED WHY HE FOUND THE REVEAL THAT HIS "JAM BOND" CHARACTER WAS GAY "UNSATISFYG"
- 'NO TIME TO DIE' HTS Q IS GAY LANDMARK LGBTQ+ SCENE
- BEN WHISHAW SAYS WOULD BE 'EXTRAORDARY' TO HAVE AN OPENLY GAY ACTOR ST AS THE NEXT JAM BOND
BEN WHISHAW CONFIRMS HE IS GAY. AND MARRIED. SO THERE.
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Ben Whishaw, the Brish actor who began his role as gadget gu Q the latt Jam Bond movie Skyfall, has nfirmed he is gay and married to boyiend Mark Bradshaw.
"Whishaw and Bradshaw met on the set of Jane Campn's 2009 movie Bright Star, which Ben starred and Mark posed the sre Jam Bond actor had attracted speculatn about his sexualy a prev terview when asked whether was important for young gay people to have posive role mols. But many felt unsatisfied -- cludg the actor who plays Q Whishaw, who is gay IRL, has been playg Q the Daniel Craig Bond films sce 2012 and had one scene the latt, No Time to Die, that seemgly nfirmed his sexualy.
BEN WHISHAW EXPLAED WHY HE FOUND THE REVEAL THAT HIS "JAM BOND" CHARACTER WAS GAY "UNSATISFYG"
Brish actor Ben Whishaw has opened up about his Jam Bond character g out as gay the latt stallment of the anchise, llg the eventual oute "unsatisfyg. "I feel the same, sometim, about straight actors playg gay parts, " he went on.
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.
'NO TIME TO DIE' HTS Q IS GAY LANDMARK LGBTQ+ SCENE
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.
BEN WHISHAW SAYS WOULD BE 'EXTRAORDARY' TO HAVE AN OPENLY GAY ACTOR ST AS THE NEXT JAM BOND
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. Speakg wh the Brish magaze, Attu, Ben Whishaw — who repris his role as Bond's gadget-ventg tech geni, Q, No Time to Die — endors the ia of stg an openly gay actor as 007.
(Photo: Franis Duhamel/©Columbia Pictur/urty Everett Collectn)It's also worth notg that the Bond anchise has flirted wh rporatg homoeroticism to the actn the past.