Whether or not you wish to learn about kitting out James Bond or sinking his claws into Paddington Bear, Britain’s most likable actor is right here to inform all
You’ll in all probability know Ben Whishaw finest for taking on from Desmond Llewelyn (and briefly John Cleese) as Q prior to now three James Bond movies. And because the voice of Paddington Bear, the place he was introduced in on the final minute to interchange Colin Firth.
Whishaw brings one thing so very likable to each function he performs: John Keats in Jane Campion’s Shiny Star, Sebastian Flyte within the 2008 model of Brideshead Revisited and the grown-up Michael Banks in Mary Poppins Returns. And that features his TV work: Norman Scott in A Very English Scandal and junior physician Adam Kay in This Is Going to Harm.
It makes you surprise if he may ever play a baddie: properly, he does get shut by taking part in Uriah Heep in Armando Iannucci’s The Private Historical past of David Copperfield and will get punched within the face by Dev Patel.
Whishaw now stars in Girls Speaking, during which the ladies of an remoted spiritual group battle to reconcile their actuality with their religion. It co-stars Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley and Frances McDormand, and has earned the director, Sarah Polley, her second Oscar nomination for finest tailored screenplay.
So, be they gadget-, Dickens-, or marmalade sandwich-related, put up your Qs for Whishaw under by noon GMT on Tuesday 31 Jan and we’ll print his As in Movie & Music on 17 February.
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