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. Maybe on another kind of project I would have done? But it’s a very big machine. I thought a lot…
