Spectre’s Naomie Harris: It was gratifying seeing Moneypenny get her own love life

Q remains a 'solitary' character meanwhile

A very mild Spectre spoiler - Moneypenny gets laid! Or at least it’s hinted that she does, having to get out of bed with a man to answer a call from Bond during the movie, disrupting her having “a life” - something she suggests 007 “tries sometime”

Asked if she found it gratifying to see her character get her own life away from Bond, actress Naomie Harris told Independent.co.uk: “Yes it was really nice, and to see where she lived.

“I got a really great sense of what she is about - it was interesting actually, because Sam [Mendes, the director] asked me ‘How do you see her home, who do you see yourself in bed next to?’ and we had exactly the same views about her home and how it should be decorated and it was such a weird feeling walking on set and seeing what was in my head materialised in real life.

Q’s private life stays a bit of a mystery however (perhaps to be explored in later films), the only allusion to it coming when Bond teases him about living alone with his cats.

Is Q straight? Gay? Asexual? Actor Ben Whishaw wouldn’t be drawn on the matter.

“That would be giving away far too much information,” he said of his character’s sexuality. “I think he’s a very guarded man, I get the feeling he’s a pretty solitary human being.”

The Bond universe is filled with solitary human beings, with Daniel Craig famously describing Bond as a “lonely misogynist” earlier this year, though both Harris and Whishaw think Craig/Mendes have negotiated the character away from this somewhat.

“I thought in this one he was very much a kind of New Man and the misogynistic element wasn’t really there,” Harris said, with Whishaw adding: “Yeah, I think Daniel’s been quite good at steering away from that.”

Spectre is in cinemas now.