Ben Whishaw will play Q in Skyfall, the BBC reported, citing the actor’s agent.
Whishaw, 31, had been previously announced as being in Skyfall’s cast with no details provided about his character.
Whishaw would be the youngest Q in the Eon Productions series. Peter Burton was 41 when he played the character (referred to as Major Boothroyd) in Dr. No. Desmond Llewlyn was 48 when he made his debut (still billed as Boothroyd) in From Russia With Love. (Calling the character Q didn’t occur until Goldfinger.) John Cleese was 63 when 2002’s Die Another Day premiered, where he played Boothroyd’s sucessor as Q. Cleese had appeared three years earlier in The World Is Not Enough, where his character was Q’s second in command.
No word whether Whishaw’s Q would also be the Boothroyd character, or simply go unnamed beyond the Q designation.
(SPOILER ALERT) We’ll have to see whether Whishaw’s Q gets along with Daniel Craig’s Bond better than their characters in Layer Cake at end end of the movie:
Filed under: James Bond Films | Tagged: BBC, Ben Whishaw, Benwhishaw to play Q, Bond 23, Daniel Craig, Desmond Llewelyn, Eon Productions, James Bond Films, John Cleese, Layer Cake, Major Boothroyd, Peter Burton, Q, Skyfall |
The Spy Command 
Any chance of tagging this with a “spoiler alert” for those who haven’t yet seen “Layer Cake”?
Done.
[…] of the comments.) Some will even complain about spoilers seven years after a movie has come out. (CLICK HERE for a November 2011 post and scroll down to one of the comments […]
[…] THIS 2011 POST, a reader yelped that a “spoiler alert” should be tagged with a spoiler alert about a […]