☼Ben Whishaw☼

Of all the pleasing elements in the latest Bond film, the reinvention of Q as a young, anorak-clad computer genius was perhaps the most intriguing.
It was classic Ben Whishaw, an actor who is now being talked about as one of Britain’s finest. That he only worked on Skyfall for five days is surprising; that it was all he needed to make his mark, less so.
It is a quality that Daniel Craig has been aware of – painfully aware, it transpires – since 1999, when their paths first crossed on William Boyd’s directorial debut, The Trench.
Whishaw, then 17 and still studying for his A levels at...

Skyfall bituin Ben Whishaw has hinted that Bond 24 could begin production sa pamamagitan ng the end of the year.

The oras actor, who played MI6's new Q in last year's action blockbuster, sinabi that he and Daniel Craig will "probably be back together again in about ten months".
Whishaw also sinabi that he hopes Q is madami involved in the Skyfall follow-up and wants Sam Mendes to return to the director's chair.

Asked if there was any actor he'd like to see play James Bond when Craig's tenure finished, Whishaw replied: "I know that he's doing the susunod three so I'm not thinking beyond that. We've got to just get through...

What is it with Ben Whishaw and cats? Last time I met him, in a bar in Shoreditch in 2004, he was 23. Just six months out of Rada, he’d become famous overnight for his electrifying performance at the Old Vic as Hamlet – all skinny legs, Keith Richards hair stuffed under a beanie and nothing but rave reviews. It struck me that he was completely freaked out, rabbit-in-the-headlights startled sa pamamagitan ng the idea that the world would be remotely interested in anything he had to say. The only personal information I extracted was that he’s a cat-lover – ‘the most I ever had at one time is 11’....

Ben Whishaw, who is currently juggling shooting the five-part BBC2 series London Spy with his role as Q in Spectre, has just come off set and is adamant that this is the least spy thriller spy thriller you can imagine, a far cry from Bond.

“It doesn’t really feel like a spy thriller to me, although it sort of is,” he says, distractedly cradling a hot-water bottle. “It’s broader than that, because it’s about a character who’s not within that world, about somebody who stumbles into it and to whom it’s alien and mystifying. So it doesn’t feel like a traditional spy drama in that...

British actor Ben Whishaw has reportedly been cast as Freddie Mercury in a biopic about the late reyna frontman's life.

The 33-year-old Skyfall bituin is replacing Sacha Baron Cohen, who left the project earlier this taon over "creative differences".

Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe had been slated to take over from Cohen but Whishaw emerged as the frontrunner after the surviving members of reyna revealed on The One ipakita in October that he was their tuktok choice.

Whishaw, best known for his role in Skyfall as Q, has also appeared in TV dramas The oras and Nathan Barley.

He also played Rolling Stone...

IAR: To begin with, is one of the most exciting aspects of being in a project like this the opportunity to play several different characters and really be part of an ensemble of actors as apposed to being number one or number two on the call sheet? Is that why you wanted to be in this movie?

Ben Whishaw: Definitely. None of us really knew what that would entail until we were there doing it. It did create a very special atmosphere and we have to thank Tom Hanks for guiding us in that because he's such a powerful person. There are lots of powerful people in the cast of course, but if he hadn't...