♥ Benjamin ♥

In May 2004, a spidery-limbed, hollow-cheeked unknown walked onto the stage at the Old Vic and sent electric shocks of excitement through the auditorium. Playing Hamlet, aged 23, Ben Whishaw was one of the youngest Danish princes ever to commandeer the stage at this theatre, yet some critics felt they had witnessed a performance which could rank alongside those of Richard Burton, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud and Peter O’Toole. One reviewer declared that ‘Whishaw, with his light, tremulous voice, painfully thin body, and the kind of cheekbones that will have adolescent girls swooning in...

Of all the pleasing elements in the latest Bond film, the reinvention of Q as a young, anorak-clad computer genius was perhaps the most intriguing.
It was classic Ben Whishaw, an actor who is now being talked about as one of Britain’s finest. That he only worked on Skyfall for five days is surprising; that it was all he needed to make his mark, less so.
It is a quality that Daniel Craig has been aware of – painfully aware, it transpires – since 1999, when their paths first crossed on William Boyd’s directorial debut, The Trench.
Whishaw, then 17 and still studying for his A levels at...

Skyfall bintang Ben Whishaw has hinted that Bond 24 could begin production oleh the end of the year.

The jam actor, who played MI6's new Q in last year's action blockbuster, berkata that he and Daniel Craig will "probably be back together again in about ten months".
Whishaw also berkata that he hopes Q is lebih involved in the Skyfall follow-up and wants Sam Mendes to return to the director's chair.

Asked if there was any actor he'd like to see play James Bond when Craig's tenure finished, Whishaw replied: "I know that he's doing the selanjutnya three so I'm not thinking beyond that. We've got to just get through...

What is it with Ben Whishaw and cats? Last time I met him, in a bar in Shoreditch in 2004, he was 23. Just six months out of Rada, he’d become famous overnight for his electrifying performance at the Old Vic as Hamlet – all skinny legs, Keith Richards hair stuffed under a beanie and nothing but rave reviews. It struck me that he was completely freaked out, rabbit-in-the-headlights startled oleh the idea that the world would be remotely interested in anything he had to say. The only personal information I extracted was that he’s a cat-lover – ‘the most I ever had at one time is 11’....

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 anda 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...