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Ben Whishaw, who is currently juggling shooting the five-part BBC2 series London Spy with his role as Q in Spectre, has just come off set and is adamant that this is the least spy thriller spy thriller you can imagine, a far cry from Bond.

“It doesn’t really feel like a spy thriller to me, although it sort of is,” he says, distractedly cradling a hot-water bottle. “It’s broader than that, because it’s about a character who’s not within that world, about somebody who stumbles into it and to whom it’s alien and mystifying. So it doesn’t feel like a traditional spy drama in that...
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British actor Ben Whishaw has reportedly been cast as Freddie Mercury in a biopic about the late Queen frontman's life.

The 33-year-old Skyfall star is replacing Sacha Baron Cohen, who left the project earlier this year over "creative differences".

Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe had been slated to take over from Cohen but Whishaw emerged as the frontrunner after the surviving members of Queen revealed on The One Show in October that he was their top choice.

Whishaw, best known for his role in Skyfall as Q, has also appeared in TV dramas The Hour and Nathan Barley.

He also played Rolling Stone...
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IAR: To begin with, is one of the most exciting aspects of being in a project like this the opportunity to play several different characters and really be part of an ensemble of actors as apposed to being number one or number two on the call sheet? Is that why you wanted to be in this movie?

Ben Whishaw: Definitely. None of us really knew what that would entail until we were there doing it. It did create a very special atmosphere and we have to thank Tom Hanks for guiding us in that because he's such a powerful person. There are lots of powerful people in the cast of course, but if he hadn't...
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Pinewood Studios continues to invest in its facilities and the latest offering for clients is a brand new, state of the art facility for both film and television production.

The new stage is named ‘Q Stage’ and was formally opened by Ben Whishaw, the latest actor to play the famous Q character in the Bond franchise.

The development comprises a 30,000 sq ft stage and 15,000 sq ft of production accommodation and workshops. Pinewood’s newest stage was completed on 27 September 2013 and the first production to move in is a large, inward investment film.

After some opening remarks from Andrew...
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Ben Whishaw’s turn as hi-tech boffin Q in the new James Bond film Skyfall is brave new territory indeed, he tells James Rampton.
Ben Whishaw admits that he was completely blindsided by this one. Hailed as one of the finest actors of his generation, the 32-year-old is about to play the MI6 boffin Q – all gadgets and geekiness — in Skyfall, the new Bond movie. But, he confesses, “I absolutely did not see the offer coming.”
Sam Mendes, the director of the film, had invited him for dinner. “I thought we were going to be discussing a Shakespeare project,” recalls Whishaw.
Bond is big....
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Born on October 14, 1980, British actor Ben Whishaw Whishaw began performing on stage in the late 1990s, as a member of the Bancroft Youth Theatre (now the Big Spirit Youth Theatre). He earned critical acclaim after starring in the theater's production of If This Is a Man, an autobiographical play by Holocaust survivor Primo Levi. Whishaw garnered more positive reviews in 2004 after playing the lead role in a production of Hamlet. Whishaw soon began landing film roles, including as Keith Richards in the 2005 biopic Stoned. In 2011, Whishaw debuted on the popular television series The Hour. That same year, he was cast as Q in 2012's Skyfall, the 23rd installment of the James Bond film series, directed by Sam Mendes.
James Bond actor Ben Whishaw is to play Freddie Mercury in a new film about rock band Queen.

The star is best known for playing Q in Bond film Skyfall and newshound Freddie Lyon in BBC drama The Hour.

He replaces Sacha Baron Cohen, who pulled out of playing Mercury in July citing "creative differences".

The Queen singer died in 1991. The film, which will be directed by Dexter Fletcher, will follow the band in the run-up to Live Aid in 1985.

Queen guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor will oversee the soundtrack, which will include hits like Bohemian Rhapsody and We Will Rock You.

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