There’s been excement about Q’s queer revelatn ‘No Time to Die’ but the anchise’s first gay characters appeared all the way back 1971’s ‘Diamonds Are Forever’. Fifty years on, Adam Bloodworth talks to the actors who played Mr Wt and Mr Kidd about why they’re worth celebratg
Contents:
- JAM BOND'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER REVEAL NO TIME TO DIE MA ME TEAR UP
- DANIEL CRAIG: JAM BOND STAR REVEALS WHY HE GO TO GAY BARS
- ‘I KNEW WAS A URAGEO THG TO DO’: THE CUR STORY OF BOND’S FIRST GAY VILLAS
- JAM BOND WALKS TO A GAY BAR. BUT SHOULD HE?
- TARON EGERTON ON WHY HE’S NOT THE RIGHT F FOR BOND AND WHETHER STRAIGHT ACTORS SHOULD BE ABLE TO PLAY GAY ROL
- DANIEL CRAIG: GAY JAM BOND NEVER GOG TO HAPPEN
- 'NO TIME TO DIE' HTS Q IS GAY LANDMARK LGBTQ+ SCENE
- 'NO TIME TO DIE' ACTOR BEN WHISHAW WANTS A GAY JAM BOND: 'THAT WOULD BE REAL PROGRS'
- BEN WHISHAW ADMS THE REVEAL THAT HIS JAM BOND CHARACTER IS GAY FELT 'UNSATISFYG'
- JAM BOND’S GAY HT WAS ALMOST CUT OM SKYFALL, SAYS PRODUCER
- BOND’S BEN WHISHAW WANTS GAY ACTOR TO REPLACE DANIEL CRAIG, AND HE KNOWS TWO ‘IAL’ MEN
JAM BOND'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER REVEAL NO TIME TO DIE MA ME TEAR UP
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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.
DANIEL CRAIG: JAM BOND STAR REVEALS WHY HE GO TO GAY BARS
Jam Bond actor Daniel Craig ma headwds this week when he revealed that he is a big fan of gay bars. * gay james bond actor *
Nila Dove/MGMThis isn't to say there haven't been implied queer characters or super gay moments before.
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.
‘I KNEW WAS A URAGEO THG TO DO’: THE CUR STORY OF BOND’S FIRST GAY VILLAS
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.
JAM BOND WALKS TO A GAY BAR. BUT SHOULD HE?
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.
TARON EGERTON ON WHY HE’S NOT THE RIGHT F FOR BOND AND WHETHER STRAIGHT ACTORS SHOULD BE ABLE TO PLAY GAY ROL
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. Daniel Craig has revealed that he go to gay bars to avoid "aggrsive" men, havg grown "sick" of gettg to Jam Bond actor, who has jt released his fifth and fal film as 007, No Time To Die, said was tired of the "aggrsive d*** swgg hetero bars". "I've been gog to gay bars for as long as I n remember, " he said.
DANIEL CRAIG: GAY JAM BOND NEVER GOG TO HAPPEN
"And one of the reasons - bee I don't get to fights gay bars that often. The 53-year-old told Bce Bozzi on his SiriXM podst, Lunch Wh Bce, he felt gay bars "would jt be a good place to go".
'NO TIME TO DIE' HTS Q IS GAY LANDMARK LGBTQ+ SCENE
"You may also be terted :Elk livg wh tyre around neck for two years is fally eeNew antibody jectn able to prevent and treat COVID, study showsSky to replace satelle dish and box wh smart TV setsCraig, who has been married to actrs Rachel Weisz sce 2011, also admted there were benefs to beg a man terted women a gay bar. Subscribe to the Backstage podst on Apple Podsts, Google Podsts, Spotify, SpreakerCraig and Bozzi remisced on how they had once untentnally generated media attentn after gettg "ught" together at a gay bar Venice Beach, California, 2010.
Heck, even gay No Time to Die actor Ben Whishaw says 's time for a gay actor to fill Bond's perfectly polished sho. RELATED | Famo Homoerotic Jam Bond Scene Almost 'Too Gay' For Stud Execs. He was even highlighted by current Jam Bond star Ben Whishaw, who plays the technil mastermd Q the seri, as a good ndidate for a gay 007.
This isn’t to give eher of those away, but to divulge a third: that Bond’s handy gadget man, Q, is gay.
'NO TIME TO DIE' ACTOR BEN WHISHAW WANTS A GAY JAM BOND: 'THAT WOULD BE REAL PROGRS'
)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.
BEN WHISHAW ADMS THE REVEAL THAT HIS JAM BOND CHARACTER IS GAY FELT 'UNSATISFYG'
“He didn’t know me, so he thought I was gay. 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.
JAM BOND’S GAY HT WAS ALMOST CUT OM SKYFALL, SAYS PRODUCER
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.
"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.
BOND’S BEN WHISHAW WANTS GAY ACTOR TO REPLACE DANIEL CRAIG, AND HE KNOWS TWO ‘IAL’ MEN
"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. "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.