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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

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DANIEL CRAIG: JAM BOND STAR REVEALS WHY HE GO TO GAY BARS

The actor started gog to gay bars when he was younger. * gay 007 actor *

Heck, even gay No Time to Die actor Ben Whishaw says 's time for a gay actor to fill Bond's perfectly polished sho.

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

* gay 007 actor *

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. 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".

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".

JAM BOND'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER REVEAL NO TIME TO DIE MA ME TEAR UP

Ben Whishaw, who plays Q the seri, has suggted openly gay actors, Le Evans and "Bridgerton" star Jonathan Bailey, for the role. * gay 007 actor *

"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. No Time to Die featur a scene that seems to nfirm Ben Whishaw's Q is gay, makg his character the first ally of Jam Bond (played by Daniel Craig) to be out as a member of the LGBTQ+ the 007 anchise has prevly had characters that were d gay or were LGBTQ+ the Ian Flemg books, the were nearly all the new Bond movie (**spoilers ahead**), Bond and Moneypenny (Naomie Harris) make a surprise vis to Q's apartment to lnch a vert missn whout the knowledge of M (Ralph Fienn).

DID NO TIME TO DIE JT OUT ONE OF THE CHARACTERS AS GAY?

Ben Whishaw says the 007 reveal that his character Q is gay was maybe not handled as effective as uld have been. * gay 007 actor *

Avengers: Endgame h the headl for a scene which a man mourns the loss of his male partner durg "The Blip, " for example, while the more recent Jungle Cise featur a scene which Jack Whehall's character some have praised the scen, others have cricised them for beg mor moments that are tratgly y, that avoid speakg plaly about characters' gay liv. Meanwhile, some viewers have poted out that the films should seek to tegrate their characters' sexuali throughout the film, rather than talk about them short clips that seem to be signed so they n easily be cut out untri wh anti-gay laws and sentiments.

DANIEL CRAIG PREFERS GAY BARS BEE HE GOT SICK OF THE 'D*** SWGG HETERO BARS'

As No Time to Die has only been released a few untri so far, however, remas to be seen whether the film will ed this scene ls tolerant this Q scene may only be a mor moment, is a landmark a anchise that has prevly had gay villas, wh their homosexualy d as part of what mak them so example, the novel Diamonds are Forever, Felix Leer spects that sadistic killers Mr. Kidd are gay – somethg the movie leans to by havg them hold hands and say that one character is attractive "for a lady.

The novel Goldfger featur the homophobic trope that Psy Galore only beme a lbian after beg sexually abed by a man.

In the movie, meanwhile, she is d lbian, but is implied that Bond is able to turn her straight wh his male this Q scene No Time to Die suffers om the same problems as other morn blockbters that overpromise and unrliver on LGBTQ+ ntent, do speak for the efforts the anchise has ma to be more makers of Skyfall, for example, have spoken about havg to fight to keep a scene which Bond flirts wh Silva (Javier Barm) and hts at a prev gay experience. Whishaw, who me out himself 2013, has prevly played gay characters like Norman Stt A Very English Sndal and Danny Holt London Spy.

DANIEL CRAIG: GAY JAM BOND NEVER GOG TO HAPPEN

In 2019, The Sun reported that Whishaw was lobbyg the Bond team to clu a gay character – though this should be treated wh some scepticism, as filmg had already begun on the film when the report me recently, he has h headl for advotg for a gay actor to play Bond. 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.

‘I KNEW WAS A URAGEO THG TO DO’: THE CUR STORY OF BOND’S FIRST GAY VILLAS

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. Nila Dove/MGMThis isn't to say there haven't been implied queer characters or super gay moments before.

'NO TIME TO DIE' ACTOR BEN WHISHAW WANTS A GAY JAM BOND: 'THAT WOULD BE REAL PROGRS'

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. 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.

Ana Armas' cktail-chuggg character Paloma is stantly inic, exactly what gays want om a Bond girl: betiful, funny and jt pla badass.

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

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.

Apparently, the movie has a queer surprise store for fans – the character of Q, played by Ben Whishaw the last three 007 films, appears to be portrayed as gay the 're gonna keep spoilers to a mimum, although the reveal isn't important to the ma plot of the is but one scene that impli that Q, the stylish quartermaster to the super-spy, is Whishaw as Q No Time To Die. He jt said an terview wh Brish gay magaze Attu that he would be thrilled if a gay actor were to play the next Jam whether the Jam Bond character uld be female, Black or gay, the 40-year-old actor said an terview wh Variety that the 007 anchise needs "radil" change if is to be relevant to morn dienc.

BEN WHISHAW UNSATISFIED BY HIS BOND CHARACTER’S GAY REVEAL: I THOUGHT ABOUT QUTNG IT

Whishaw last played a gay man the 2019 TV seri A Very English Sndal (and won a Goln Globe for the role). (Doug Peters/EMPICS)Daniel Craig has said he prefers gog to gay bars bee of the “aggrsive d*** swgg hetero bars” Jam Bond actor, 53, said he started visg gay nightspots when he was younger bee he felt they were safer and he wanted to avoid gettg to any hassle.

“I’ve been gog to gay bars for as long as I n remember, ” he said on the Lunch Wh Bce more: The road to No Time To Die: No curse n beat Jam Bond“One of the reasons - bee I don’t get to fights gay bars that often. (Gonzalo Marroqu/Patrick McMullan via Getty Imag)The No Time To Die actor – who is now married to fellow Hollywood star Rachel Weisz - said that when he was younger he also found that gay bars were a good place for him to meet more: Daniel Craig appoted honorary Commanr of the Royal Navy“I uld meet girls there, bee there are a lot of girls there for exactly the same reason that I was there, ” he shared.

"Back 1999, out gay actor Rupert Everett created a firtorm of headl when he announced that he was wrg and planng to star a movie about a gay Jam Bond.

JAM BOND: WHAT PIERCE BROSNAN SAID ABOUT 007 BEG FEMALE OR GAY

Sure, Jam Bond, one of the most hyper-mascule movie anchis the world, has ma some progrsive stris recent years wh Daniel Craig playg the secret agent (we're talkg shorter bathg sus and subtle bisexualy), but uld Bond ever be gay? I don't thk Barbara [Brocli, the Jam Bond producer] would allow a gay Bond to happen her lifetime. It seems the 'Q' LGBTQ+ now stands for the latt Jam Bond movie, No Time to Die, which also happens to be Daniel Craig's last the role, a classic character fally reveals what we've spected for several movi: that he's gay.

This isn’t to give eher of those away, but to divulge a third: that Bond’s handy gadget man, Q, is gay.

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FROM THERE, PAGE WENT ON TO STAR X-MEN: THE LAST STAND, AND HIS MUCH-HERALD ROLE AS THE TEENAGE STAR OF JUNO. ALTHOUGH JUNO BEME ONE OF HIS BT-KNOWN ROL, HE ALSO APPEARED SEVERAL POPULAR FILMS, CLUDG SMART PEOPLE, INCEPTN, SUPER AND X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST, LATER STARRG THE DOMTIC DRAMA FREEHELD.EARLY LIFE AND CAREERACTOR ELLT PAGE WAS BORN ON FEBARY 21, 1987, HALIFAX, NOVA STIA, CANADA. PAGE TOOK AN TERT THEATER OM A YOUNG AGE. HE PERFORMED HIS FIRST LOL PRODUCTN THE FIFTH GRA AND WON CANADA'S PRTIG GEMI NOMATN FOR HIS ROLE THE MA-FOR-TELEVISN MOVIE P PONY 1997. THE BY ACTOR WENT ON TO APPEAR SEVERAL CANADIAN TELEVISN SERI, CLUDG THE P PONY SP-OFF, TRAILER PARK BOYS (2001-02) AND REGENIS (2004), AS WELL AS THE AWARD-WNG FILM MARN BRIDGE (2002).BIG BREAKTHOUGH PAGE WAS FIRST TRODUCED TO AMERIN DIENC THE LIFETIME MOVIE HOMELS TO HARVARD: THE LIZ MURRAY STORY (2003), HIS ROLE THE PROVOTIVE 2005 DIE THRILLER HARD CANDY LNCHED HIM TO THE SPOTLIGHT. 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)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.

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.

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But current "No Time to Die" actor Ben Whishaw, who plays Q the 25th Bond movie, has other asked if he would like to see a gay actor play an openly gay Bond an terview wh Attu Magaze, Whishaw said: "God, n you image? Whishaw, who's makg his third appearance as Q "No Time to Die, " sgled out a uple of openly gay actors particular that he thks would be great the role of 007 — namely, "Bety and the Beast" actor Le Evans and "Bridgerton" star Jonathan Bailey.

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.

5 TIM SPIR-MAN ACTORS HAVE PLAYED GAY

”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.

Ben Whishaw admted an terview wh The Guardian that he was left unsatisfied by the revelatn “No Time to Die” that his recurrg Jam Bond character Q is a gay man. ’ I remember, perhaps, feelg that was unsatisfyg, ” Whishaw said about revealg Q is gay but keepg his sexualy relatively unexplored.

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