James Bond star Ben Whishaw, who came out as gay last year, has
said it takes extraordinary courage to open up about your sexuality.
The 33-year-old, known for his role as Q in Skyfall, revealed last
year he was gay and had entered into a civil partnership with Australian
composer Mark Bradshaw.
‘It's hard to have a conversation with people you've known your
whole life about a very intimate thing,’ he said in a recent interview.
‘It's massively weighted with all sorts of stuff, whatever the
wider world is saying.’
He added: ‘It's an intimate and private and difficult conversation
for most people. It takes courage and people have to do it in their own time.’
And when he had to make the decision to come out as gay to friends
and family, Whishaw said everyone was surprisingly lovely to him.
In his most recent project, Whishaw plays a gay man coming to terms
with the death of his boyfriend in new film Lilting.
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