Daniel Craig rolls his eyes when asked if there could ever be a gay James Bond

Iconic “James Bond” star Daniel Craig had a humorous reaction when a journalist asked him if the legendary spy could ever be depicted as gay.

During a press conference at the Venice Film Festival this week for his upcoming film “Queer,” the “No Time to Die” actor rolled his eyes when a reporter asked him, “Do you think there could be a gay James Bond?”

Craig smiled and dismissed the question, adding, “Seriously.”

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Then “Queer” director Luca Guadagnino stepped in and said, “Guys, let’s be adults in the room for a second.”

“Thank you,” Craig added.

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Craig, who wrapped his final film as James Bond in 2021’s “No Time To Die,” stars in Guadagnino’s new film about a drug-addicted gay man who falls in love with another man in 1950s Mexico.

“Queer,” which is set to be released later this year, has already made headlines for its intimate love scenes between the 56-year-old actor and Drew Starkey, 30, the actor who plays his bisexual lover in the film.

Guadagnino followed up Craig’s exasperated response to the reporter by explaining that no one cares about the fictional spy’s sexuality.

“There’s no getting around the fact that no one would ever know James Bond’s wishes,” the director said, prompting applause from the audience and Craig, who clapped his hands in approval.

Guadagnino added: “The important thing is that he fulfils his missions well.”

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Despite the filmmaker’s claims that Bond’s desires are unknown, the famous movie spy has been portrayed as a womanizer since he appeared on the big screen in the 1960s.

In Craig’s final outing as 007 in “No Time to Die,” the actor explored the spy’s romantic desires even more closely, portraying Bond’s shift from scoundrel to family man, sacrificing his life to save his girlfriend and her child.

Craig’s exchange with the journalist at the Venice Film Festival is not the first time a change in Bond’s identity has been suggested. In recent years, there have been rumours that filmmakers were considering making Bond a female character or hiring a person of colour to play him.

In 2020, Bond series producer Barbara Broccoli dismissed the idea that Bond could be a woman, but added that he could be played by an actor of a different race.

“He can be any colour, but he’s a man,” Broccoli explained. “I think we should create new characters for women, strong female characters. I’m not particularly interested in a woman playing a male character. I think women are much more interesting than that.”

Craig himself echoed that sentiment in a 2021 interview with Radio Times, asking: “Why should a woman play James Bond when there should be a role as good as James Bond, but for a woman?”

In 2023, a newly authorized Bond novel was criticized as being “woke” for having an anti-trans villain associated with Trump.

The story, by author Charlie Higson, features 007 observing that a gathering of villains has a lack of “diversity” or “disabled” representation.

“Bond was drawn to something. It had been a long time since he had attended any kind of event that was almost exclusively filled with men. It felt strange. There was not even a pretense of diversity here,” the book states, going on to note that the villain Aethelstan “had not made the slightest concern to ensure that half the people he had hired to carry out his heist were women, not white or disabled.”

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