{"id":3743,"date":"2006-12-03T10:14:56","date_gmt":"2006-12-03T18:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2006\/12\/03\/3743.html"},"modified":"2006-12-03T10:14:56","modified_gmt":"2006-12-03T18:14:56","slug":"gay-bond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2006\/12\/03\/gay-bond\/","title":{"rendered":"Gay Bond!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I haven't yet seen the new Casino Royale<\/cite>; I plan to see it, but I've been mildly dubious about it. And I'm still holding a grudge against the filmmakers for dumping Pierce Brosnan. (Also, I confess that I enjoyed the original Casino Royale<\/cite> movie when I saw it as a kid, though it was obviously a mess.)<\/p>\n

But I'm suddenly a little more interested, thanks to Naomi's telling me that Daniel Craig wants a gay scene in the next movie<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I don't know which I'm more pleased by: Craig making the suggestion at all, or his justification for it: \"look at Doctor Who<\/cite>--that has had gay scenes in it and no one blinks an eye.\"<\/p>\n

But wait, there's more! Turns out that Craig was also in another recent movie, Infamous<\/cite>, one of the movies about Truman Capote writing In Cold Blood<\/cite>. According to a gay.com article<\/a> from September, there's a kiss in the movie between Craig and Toby Jones, the guy who plays Capote. Jones commented: \"I never dreamed I'd kiss James Bond. Now that I've done it, I say I hope I'm just the first of many.\"<\/p>\n

And he may be! According to an extremely implausible FemaleFirst article<\/a> from around the same time:<\/p>\n

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Daniel Craig will have a male love interest in the next Bond movie.<\/p>\n

...<\/p>\n

Bond 22<\/cite>--the [next Bond movie after Royale<\/cite>]--will now see a homoerotic relationship develop between the suave spy and secret agent Felix Leiter, played by Jeffrey Wright.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I don't buy it for a minute. Or rather, I'm willing to believe that they'll put in some homoerotic subtext--which is to say, slash moments; that sounds very plausible. But I can't imagine that they'll go as far as (say) a kiss.<\/p>\n

But I'm still tickled by the idea.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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