Jam Bond’s gay ht was almost cut om Skyfall, says Barbara Brocli | The Inpennt

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• JAM BOND’S GAY HT WAS ALMOST CUT OM SKYFALL, SAYS PRODUCER
• IS JAVIER BARM PLAYG THE FIRST GAY BOND VILLA 'SKYFALL'? BARM AND DIRECTOR SAM MENS WEIGH
• SKYFALL STAR DANIEL CRAIG OPENS UP ON BOND VILLA RAOUL SILVA GAY MOURS
• 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 BARBARA BROCLI

JAM BOND’S GAY HT WAS ALMOST CUT OM SKYFALL, SAYS PRODUCER

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

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

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. 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.

SKYFALL STAR DANIEL CRAIG OPENS UP ON BOND VILLA RAOUL SILVA GAY MOURS

” 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.

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.

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

"I thk there's a huge homoerotic unrtow a lot of Bond movi, " says Mens. When Silva starts to unbutton Bond's shirt and b his neck and b his leg, is this supposed to show that Silva is gay? Daniel Craig has opened up about mours that the new Jam Bond villa Skyfall uld be gay, sayg Raoul Silva would ‘f*** anythg’.

He revealed: ‘Someone suggted Silva may be gay. … Someone suggted that Silva may be gay.

JAM BOND’S GAY HT WAS ALMOST CUT OM SKYFALL, SAYS BARBARA BROCLI

How would a gay or bisexual 007 impact the legacy of the character? 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).

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. 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.