Ben Whishaw.Photo: Jeff Spicer/Getty
Ben Whishawwanted more from hisJames Bondcharacter’s big reveal.
TheEmmywinner plays tech expert Q in theDaniel Craig007 moviesSkyfall(2012),Spectre(2015) and last year’sNo Time to Die, which serves as the last entry featuring Craig, 53, in the lead.
During one scene inNo Time to Die, it’s hinted that Q is gay when he mentions he has a date with a man — though Whishaw, 41, admitted toThe Guardianthat he thought the moment was too underplayed.
“I suppose I don’t feel it was forced upon the studio. That was not my impression of how this came about. I think it came from a good place,” he said of the reveal, adding, “And I think I remember feeling something like what you’ve just described. I think I thought, ‘Are we doing this, and then doing nothing with it?’ "
“I remember, perhaps, feeling that was unsatisfying,” said Whishaw.
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“For whatever reason, I didn’t pick it apart with anybody on the film. Maybe on another kind of project I would have done? But it’s a very big machine,” continued Whishaw. “I thought a lot about whether I should question it. Finally I didn’t. I accepted this was what was written. And I said the lines. And it is what it is.”
Whishaw,an openly gay actor, also told the outlet his thoughts on straight actors playing gay roles: “I’m critical if I don’t think the performance is, from my subjective experience, accurate. I might think, ‘I don’t believe you!’ And even a small moment of hesitation or inauthenticity will block my engagement with the whole story.”
He added, “I just feel that we can end up arguing over these black-and-white things and get extremely polarized over these questions when I don’t think it needs to be that way. Have a discussion. There can be disagreement. There can be different points of view.”
In September, Whishaw toldAttitudemagazine his thoughts on agay actor taking over the roleof James Bond post-Craig.
“God, can you imagine? I mean, it would be quite an extraordinary thing,” Whishaw said. “Of course I would like to see that. I really believe that we should be working towards a world where anyone can play anything and it would be really thrilling if it didn’t matter about someone’s sexuality to take on a role like this.”
source: people.com
