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subbuzz-image subbuzz-index-0 " data-keywords="cleaning" data-module="subbuzz-image"> <h2 class="subbuzz__header subbuzz__header--standard subbuzz__title "> <span class="js-subbuzz__title-text">You already know Ben Whishaw from loads of issues at this level — together with his flip as Q within the current James Bond films, in addition to critically acclaimed performances in movies like <i>Passages</i> and, you guessed it, his voice work within the <i>Paddington</i> sequence.</span> </h2> <figure class="subbuzz__media"> </figure> </div></div></div><div class="js-subbuzz-wrapper"><div> <div class="subbuzz buzz-width--standard__subbuzz buzz-type--list__subbuzz subbuzz-image subbuzz-index-1 " data-keywords="fast fashion" data-module="subbuzz-image"> <h2 class="subbuzz__header subbuzz__header--standard subbuzz__title "> <span class="js-subbuzz__title-text">Ben has been overtly homosexual since he entered right into a civil partnership with ex Mark Bradshaw in 2012 (they break up in 2022). In 2014, he publicly mentioned being homosexual for the primary time in an interview with The Sunday Occasions.</span> </h2> <figure class="subbuzz__media"> </figure> </div></div></div><div class="js-subbuzz-wrapper"><div> <div class="subbuzz buzz-width--standard__subbuzz buzz-type--list__subbuzz subbuzz-image subbuzz-index-2 " data-keywords="fast fashion" data-module="subbuzz-image"> <h2 class="subbuzz__header subbuzz__header--standard subbuzz__title "> <span class="js-subbuzz__title-text">In a brand new interview with The Sunday Occasions revealed this week, the actor mentioned his years within the public eye earlier than popping out. “I feel it’s down to each single individual to do what’s proper for them,” he stated. “For me, it’s higher to be out.”</span> </h2> <figure class="subbuzz__media"> </figure> </div></div></div><div class="js-subbuzz-wrapper"><div> <div class="subbuzz buzz-width--standard__subbuzz buzz-type--list__subbuzz subbuzz-image subbuzz-index-3 " data-keywords="fast fashion" data-module="subbuzz-image"> <h2 class="subbuzz__header subbuzz__header--standard subbuzz__title "> <span class="js-subbuzz__title-text">“I’m positively happier," he stated on his choice to go public. "I keep in mind days after I wasn’t out and that was a extra annoying and sad place.”</span> </h2> <figure class="subbuzz__media"> </figure> </div></div></div><div class="js-subbuzz-wrapper"><div> <div class="subbuzz buzz-width--standard__subbuzz buzz-type--list__subbuzz subbuzz-image subbuzz-index-4 " data-keywords="fast fashion" data-module="subbuzz-image"> <h2 class="subbuzz__header subbuzz__header--standard subbuzz__title "> <span class="js-subbuzz__title-text">“So I’m grateful that’s over and in addition grateful that we dwell in a world the place it’s not a shameful factor.”</span> </h2> <figure class="subbuzz__media"> </figure> </div></div></div><div class="js-subbuzz-wrapper"><div> <div class="subbuzz buzz-width--standard__subbuzz buzz-type--list__subbuzz subbuzz-image subbuzz-index-5 " data-keywords="fast fashion" data-module="subbuzz-image"> <h2 class="subbuzz__header subbuzz__header--standard subbuzz__title "> <span class="js-subbuzz__title-text">Ben went on to clarify that, when his star began to rise within the early 2000s, " in the event you had stated to a different actor you have been homosexual, it was implied or typically stated explicitly that that was one thing you shouldn’t make an enormous factor about.”</span> </h2> <figure class="subbuzz__media"> </figure> </div></div></div><div class="js-subbuzz-wrapper"><div> <div class="subbuzz buzz-width--standard__subbuzz buzz-type--list__subbuzz subbuzz-image subbuzz-index-6 " data-keywords="fast fashion" data-module="subbuzz-image"> <h2 class="subbuzz__header subbuzz__header--standard subbuzz__title "> <span class="js-subbuzz__title-text">“It was a incapacity, nearly," he stated.</span> </h2> <figure class="subbuzz__media"> </figure> </div></div></div><div class="js-subbuzz-wrapper"><div> <div class="subbuzz buzz-width--standard__subbuzz buzz-type--list__subbuzz subbuzz-image subbuzz-index-7 " data-module="subbuzz-image"> <h2 class="subbuzz__header subbuzz__header--standard subbuzz__title "> <span class="js-subbuzz__title-text">“There weren’t an unlimited quantity [of out actors], and no one my age," he continued. "However homosexual individuals of my technology got here in at a wierd time post-AIDS, which had a complete knock-on impact."</span> </h2> <figure class="subbuzz__media"> </figure> </div></div></div><div class="js-subbuzz-wrapper"><div> <div class="subbuzz buzz-width--standard__subbuzz buzz-type--list__subbuzz subbuzz-image subbuzz-index-8 " data-keywords="cleaning" data-module="subbuzz-image"> <h2 class="subbuzz__header subbuzz__header--standard subbuzz__title "> <span class="js-subbuzz__title-text">“It doesn’t have to be anybody’s enterprise, however being joyful in oneself, not ashamed, might be higher."</span> </h2> <figure class="subbuzz__media"> </figure> </div></div></div><div class="js-subbuzz-wrapper"><div> <div class="subbuzz buzz-width--standard__subbuzz buzz-type--list__subbuzz subbuzz-text subbuzz-index-9 " data-module="subbuzz-text"> <h2 class="subbuzz__header subbuzz__header--standard subbuzz__title "> <span class="js-subbuzz__title-text">You'll be able to learn your complete interview right here.</span> </h2> </div></div></div></div></div></article></div></div></main></div></div></body></div> <br>[ad_2] <br><a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/larryfitzmaurice/ben-whishaw-not-being-openly-gay-interview">Source link </a>