Is Javier Barm playg the first gay Bond villa 'Skyfall'? Barm and director Sam Mens weigh
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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
- IS JAVIER BARM PLAYG THE FIRST GAY BOND VILLA 'SKYFALL'? BARM AND DIRECTOR SAM MENS WEIGH
- JAM BOND PRODUCERS WERE TOLD TO CUT A LE ABOUT 007’S GAY PAST BY THE STUD, BUT ‘WE RISTED’
- 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 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.
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JAM BOND’S GAY HT WAS ALMOST CUT OM SKYFALL, SAYS BARBARA BROCLI
Longtime Jam Bond anchise producer Barbara Brocli said the scene was viewed as too homoerotic for stud executiv, a ee Apple TV+ special available ahead of the release of No Time to Die on Oct. Director Sam Mens add that spe Bond's reputatn as a womanizer "there's a huge homoerotic unrtow a lot of Bond movi. "Some people claim 's bee I'm, fact, gay but [that's] not te at all, " screenwrer John Logan told The Hollywood Reporter that same year.
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IS JAVIER BARM PLAYG THE FIRST GAY BOND VILLA 'SKYFALL'? BARM AND DIRECTOR SAM MENS WEIGH
“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. 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. 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.
"I thk there's a huge homoerotic unrtow a lot of Bond movi, " says Mens. 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.
JAM BOND PRODUCERS WERE TOLD TO CUT A LE ABOUT 007’S GAY PAST BY THE STUD, BUT ‘WE RISTED’
It’s the most homoerotic scene an actn movie sce Top Gun — and one of the bt scen any of Daniel Craig’s Bond movi. '” Skyfall director Sam Mens add, “I thk there’s a huge homoerotic unrtow a lot of Bond movi. Pierce Brosnan, the Bond before Craig, has said that he would wele a gay 007 and would make for an “tertg viewg, ” but he don’t “how would work.
JAM BOND GAY: SKYFALL HOMOEROTIC SCENE IS A WK TO A YOUNGER AND MORE DIVERSE AUDIENCE
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).