Ben Whishaw says his James Bond character’s low-key coming-out was ‘unsatisfying’

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last year’s “No Time to Die.” But only in the latter film is there a reference to him being gay when he appears in a scene in which Bond and Naomie Harris’ character Moneypenny interrupt him planning a date with a man.

But then there is no further mention of it in the movie.“I think I thought, ‘Are we doing this, and then doing nothing with it?'” he told the Guardian of first seeing the fleeting reference in a script. “I remember, perhaps, feeling that was unsatisfying.”He even went so far as to say, “I’m very happy to admit maybe some things were not great about that [creative] decision.”However, he did not think it was an addition that the filmmakers felt pressured to include.“I suppose I don’t feel it was forced upon the studio.

That was not my impression of how this came about,” the Golden Globe winner said. “I think it came from a good place.” As far as his reservations with the scene, though, he didn’t discuss them with anyone working on the movie.“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,” Whishaw continued. “I thought a lot about whether I should question it.