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"I thk there's a huge homoerotic unrtow a lot of Bond movi, " says Mens.

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A 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. He was also sexually ambiguo; he had a female lover and also ma strong overtur toward Bond, though whether he actually meant and was actually gay or bisexual, or was simply dog this to ms wh Bond, is left open to terpretatn. 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.

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” 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. 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.

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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.

PIERCE BROSNAN: JAM BOND ULDN'T BE GAY WHILE BARBARA BROCLI ALIVE

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