‘To be really successful, you have to be sexy in a straight way’: Ben Whishaw on libidinous New York and playing Peter Hujar Peter Hujar captured a queer Manhattan demi-monde that is now lost to Aids. Whishaw reveals what he learned playing the photographer in a minimalist film being hailed by some as a masterpiece

“I feel the lack of elders,” Whishaw says. “It’s like this massive gap, which is still so sad and shocking.” Ben #Whishaw on Peter #Hujar: “He literally stopped the minute he got the diagnosis.”
Many elders have survived and remain as a living AIDS archive.
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‘We’ll ruin Christmas’: Keira Knightley and Ben Whishaw on their gun-packed festive spy thriller Blood, bullets, bad Santas – Black Doves will guarantee you a raucous holiday season. The stars talk rage, raising kids and what their show has in common with East 17

We’ll ruin #Christmas: Keira #Knightley and Ben #Whishaw on their gun-packed festive spy thriller #BlackDoves
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