Ben Whishaw Unsatisfied by His Bond Character’s Gay Reveal: I Thought About Questioning It
variety.comZack Sharf Ben Whishaw admitted in an interview with The Guardian that he was left unsatisfied by the revelation in “No Time to Die” that his recurring James Bond character Q is a gay man.
The reveal is brief and occurs when Bond (Daniel Craig) and Moneypenny (Naomi Harris) drop by Q’s apartment unannounced for help.
Q is in the middle of cooking dinner and preparing for a date with a male romantic partner when the two show up at his door.
Q’s sexuality is not referenced again in the film.“I think I thought, ‘Are we doing this, and then doing nothing with it?’ I remember, perhaps, feeling that was unsatisfying,” Whishaw said about revealing Q is gay but keeping his sexuality relatively unexplored. “For whatever reason, I didn’t pick it apart with anybody on the film.
