Ben Whishaw says he found his 'James Bond' gay character reveal 'unsatisfying'

• Ben Whishaw's character Q is dating a man in the most recent Bond film "No Time To Die."
• Q's sexuality is revealed in a brief dinner, though, his date is never introduced.

Ben Whishaw has said that he was left partially unsatisfied by a brief scene in the recent James Bond film "No Time To Do Time" that revealed the sexuality of his character, Q.

In the scene, James Bond (Daniel Craig) shows up at Q's apartment with Eve Moneypenny (Naomie Harris) and asks Q — who is the longtime purveyor of Bond's gadgets and guns — for help on a mission. Q, however, is unhappy as he's in the middle of preparing the table for a romantic date.

"He'll be here in 20 minutes," Q tells Bond, confirming that his date is a man.

During a recent interview with The Guardian, Whishaw — who is gay — said that he had been disappointed by how brief the scene was when he first read the film's script.

"I think I remember feeling something like what you've just described. I think I thought, 'Are we doing this, and then doing nothing with it?' I remember, perhaps, feeling that was unsatisfying," he told the newspaper.

Whishaw added that he thought extensively about challenging the scene, but he didn't because of the scale of the production.

"For whatever reason, I didn't pick it apart with anybody on the film," he said. "Maybe on another kind of project I would have done? But it's a very big machine. I thought a lot about whether I should question it. Finally, I didn't. I accepted this was what was written. And I said the lines. And it is what it is."

Whishaw continued to say that he didn't receive any feedback about the scene except from one positive message from "It's a Sin" writer-creator Russell T Davies.

"Otherwise, no one has given me any feedback. So I'm really interested in these questions. And I'm very happy to admit maybe some things were not great about that [creative] decision," he said.

However, Whishaw defended MGM — who produced the film — from accusations from critics who said the studio was strong-armed into writing Q as a gay character.

"I suppose I don't feel it was forced upon the studio. That was not my impression of how this came about. I think it came from a good place," he said.

"No Time To Die" debuted in UK theaters in late 2021 after a year and a half of delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The film — which was Daniel Craig's last outing as 007 — shed pandemic international box office records. Variety reported that the film took home $113 million in its opening weekend. This made "No Time To Die" the most successful opening of the pandemic.