Jam Bond Gay: Skyfall Homoerotic Scene is a Wk to a Younger and More Diverse Audience

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• JAM BOND’S GAY HT WAS ALMOST CUT OM SKYFALL, SAYS PRODUCER
• JAM BOND’S GAY HT MOMENT WAS ALMOST CUT OM SKYFALL
• JAM BOND GAY: SKYFALL HOMOEROTIC SCENE IS A WK TO A YOUNGER AND MORE DIVERSE AUDIENCE
• 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’
• FAMO HOMOEROTIC JAM BOND SCENE ALMOST 'TOO GAY' FOR STUD EXECS
• 'NO TIME TO DIE' HTS Q IS GAY LANDMARK LGBTQ+ SCENE

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. 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. ”: Here’s how ‘Glass Onn’ hts that Beno Blanc is gay. In the now famoly homoerotic scene, Barm begs to unbutton Craig’s shirt who ss tied up a chair.

While Raoul Silva’s sexualy is not explicly labeled Skyfall, Barm is no stranger to playg gay on film.

Based on Arenas’ tobgraphy of the same name, the film centers on his life as an out and proud gay man and fierce anti-Fil Castro activist ’60s Cuba.

JAM BOND GAY: SKYFALL HOMOEROTIC SCENE IS A WK TO A YOUNGER AND MORE DIVERSE AUDIENCE

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. Director Sir Sam Mens add of the inic moment: ‘I thk there’s a huge homoerotic unrtow a lot of Bond movi.

IS JAVIER BARM PLAYG THE FIRST GAY BOND VILLA 'SKYFALL'? BARM AND DIRECTOR SAM MENS WEIGH

"Skyfall" featur a homoerotic exchange between Bond and the movie's villa. "Someone suggted that Silva may be gay.

Wilson are the heads of Eon Productns and have fal say on all thgs Bond, th the stud uldn’t overpower their cisn to keep the homoerotic moment the film.

“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.

JAM BOND PRODUCERS WERE TOLD TO CUT A LE ABOUT 007’S GAY PAST BY THE STUD, BUT ‘WE RISTED’

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.

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. The Bond star also addrsed speculatn that Barm's character was gay, to which he rpond, "I'm like, I thk he'll f--- anythg, " per Moviele.

In 2015, former Bond character Pierce Brosnan told The Guardian that he supported the ia of a gay 007. I don't thk Barbara would allow a gay Bond to happen her lifetime. 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.

FAMO HOMOEROTIC JAM BOND SCENE ALMOST 'TOO GAY' FOR STUD EXECS

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.

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

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). Sendly, unlike the GOP, the anchise may have found proof of a younger and more diverse Amerin dience which — as evinced by the rults of the 2012 electns — is more open to gay rights. Though neher Jam Bond nor Daniel Craig (or Javier Barn, for that matter) are gay, their homoerotic teractn uld well be a wk to gay members of the broar dience who uld intify wh a more morn — and ls chvistic — versn of wouldn't be the only market segmentatn appeal attempted by the producers of Skyfall, as has been duly noted that the movie's swch om the tradnal "shaken not stirred" marti historilly enjoyed by classic Bonds om Sean Connery to Pierce Brosnan has now been substuted by a more youthful Heeken.