Daniel Craig says no same-sex shagging for James Bond

I see you all the time and I've always wondered...who are the men in your icon? O_o

NO. WAY. That is the hottest thing I have ever heard in my life. I would cut off my pinky finger to see that. Jason Isaacs...is the sexiest man EVAR.

 

But when it comes to Daniel Craig's quote about having "interest" in a gay Bond, it was waaay misconstrued. A reporter asked jokingly if James Bond would have a gay love interest in the new movie, and Daniel replied with a nice "sure, why not" type quote (which I think is a lot nicer than being like "Helllllll no!"). People took it seriously and misinterpreted it.

MI5 or MI6, dont remember exactly, is activly recruting gay personel and making sexuality a non issue. 

If the franchise intends to change with the times, like they have been doing lately, they are going to have to reflect those changes in policy.  

It doesnt have to be Bond, but I would like to see some inclusion. And on the good side.

He's equally fablous in Patrice Chereau's Queen Margot, Son Frere, and Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train. And Rivette's Va Savoir too.

IIRC, there was talk (before Pierce Brosnan got cast) of Bond being relaunched as female (Sharon Stone) or gay (Rupert Everett). 

 Gotta wonder how long before Bond runs out of women. Will he take up with Dame Judi or some bored housewife?

a gay bond scene would be too awkward for the character even though it'd be hot to see that it's just not for bonds character. however i doubt that a spy has never had to play gay or that there has never been a gay spy. so rather than making already established characters have gay encounters, which when said aloud is just contrived, why not create a fully developed gay spy of our own. it's a challenge that should be met. it's doubtful that body else is unsatisfied with the lack of gay spies in movies and books or whatever.

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"The mountain has wings."

Or, as James himself might say, "Never Say Never Again."

Daniel and Derek in happier times:

Well at least a person knows to save the cost of a ticket to this Bond film and just wait for it to come out on cable where no doubt Spike tv will play it over and over again until you wish you'd fallen into that piranha-filled lagoon while taking the white feline with you.

Also, rumors of actors being attached to "future, yet-to-secure-financing-for-a-budget gay projects" always crop up whenever they have a "non-gay, already in production or post-production project" coming out. You'd think publicists and marketers would and could come up with a new tactic for trying to convince gay people to go to non-gay films.

I can understand why they want a gay audience. If just a fraction of our community goes to the movie, let's say for example, if just 80 million gay people around the world go at $10 a person, that gives a filmmaker a whopping $800 million dollar blockbuster. So, you'd really think they'd put some decent gay characters and storylines in more films. Perhaps, someday...

Bond has never been presented as even remotely gay or bi in book or movie, so I think it would be too much of a stretch for me.  It wouldn't be the same character.

This is not to say that I wouldn't like to see a gay action hero, or maybe a gay 00x agent in a Bond film (as long as he wasn't there to be gratuitously killed).  I think a gay ally would be cool, again as long as they weren't some cartoonish stereotype or a red shirt.

As for Craig's statements, we must keep in mind that he's the actor, not the writer or director.  While he might personally be okay with playing Bond in a same-sex love scene, that doesn't mean the people writing the movies are going to put one into the script.

anything. I fail to see why, as part of a mission, he has to seduce a man. It doesn't make him gay, he doesn't have to fall in love, but just have it be part of his mission sort of like Bruce Willis did in The Jackal, but maybe without having to kill him.

As for the argument that this was never part of Bond, that doesn't work for me at all. Hollywood constantly updates and reinvents franchises to stay with the times. When Bond was created, gay issues and our understanding of human sexuality were very different than they are now.

Call me weird but from DR. NO to QUANTUM OF SOLACE I have always liked my Bond straight. To me he has always the epitome of cool.  I have never wanted to sleep with straight men (ok, maybe I did before I knew there were other avalable gay men in my smalltown teenage world) and I don't want to live in GAYTOWN.  I want a world of access and acceptance, cohesive and cooperative.

A good storyline for the Bond canon would be a story where James works with another 00 agent who is gay and very cool too.  It should not be a traditional story of gay/straight adversaries trying to get along.  It should be a given that the other agent is gay and that they are working together with mutual respect. It could say a lot about how gay men can be part of any world and that sexuality has noting to do with ability.

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That is stupid, they need to get with the 21st century, James Bond needs to evolve. Honestly, I'd like to see more characters with a more fluid sexuality.They also need to realise that a lot of women would think James Bond was a lot  hotter if he was bi, then women and gay men would really like the movie, and that's like 60% of the population.

Seriously, straight he's a womanizing pig who takes advantage of women and lets woman take advantage of him because he's thinking with an organ ther than his brain. Not that appealing to girls. Bi, he's just an equal oportunity slut, and I think girls canlive with that. Because a lot of girls would think it very hot if he made out with another guy. Seriously more slutty bisexual heros, not because bisexual guys are sluts, but heroes seem to be. Like James Bond, total slut whore. 

Although I'd also be fine with another secret agent character who was gay or bi, that would also be cool.