Skeletal Ben Whishaw in new series This Is Going to Hurt

ED's are not uncommon among gay men.

As someone that is attracted to the thin/skinny type I think he looks good not skeletal.

R2 = Darfur orphan

I think he looks gorgeous

I think he looks fat.

He’s got more ribs showing than my 4th plate from the buffet at Golden Corral when I’m having a bad day.

I enjoyed the book, I'm surprised he's playing the character (who is the writer too) as such a cunt.

He's hawt!

Gross.

He looks disgusting.

What the fuck is wrong with him?

He does seem VERY skinny but I don't want to body shame so as long as he's happy and healthy it's no one's business.

He's a good and interesting actor, I think, and he can look quite odd one moment and handsome the next - much more interesting than a conventionally handsome actor who looks the same in every role in every pose, on and off duty. Lean and wiry is my favorite, though he does rather take it quite near the edge.

[quote] What the fuck is wrong with him?

He’s THIN!

He looks rail-thin to most 399-lb American beached whale, I guess. His intact dong alone weighs 20 pounds already.

I cannot understand what constitutes his charm as an actor. He is only second to Adam Driver for me, and both have a face for radio. Whishaw complains all the time, his biggest role was a cliche nerd, a role without any depth by definition (Q). To the fans: If you wanted to endear me to Whishaw's acting, what should I watch?

I was 115 once....not a great place to be.

[Quote] I was 115 once....

Did you get a telegram from The Queen?

Always get him mixed up with Luke Treadaway, who I think is the more talented waifly Englishman of the two (or, at least, more camera-friendly and charismatic).

He’s hot. I’ll take thin any day over plump.

Men aren’t cute or breedably and peggably submissive without a little covering of chub, so it’s a no from me.

He's great in a very British scandal but he is again playing dislikable.

His husband is a fashion designer, and they’re infamous for encouraging eating disorders.

Ben is undeniably talented, but he looks gross.

He’s got a totally normal body. I know DL is Fat City, but come on!

Within living memory the majority of people were that lean. It just shows how overweight has become the new normal.

It’s incredible that queens can post here saying they’ve barely seen him in anything. He’s a household name in the UK.

He’s just a naturally gifted actor. He was very good in London Spy but his 20 minute monologue as a WW1 soldier in Queers shows his gifts.

Ahh he's husband is a composer?

Very sexy!

His husband scored movies, no? He's become a fashion designer?

He's extra skinny for the role--he plays an overworked, stressed-out young doctor.

Oh, wow! For nearly 10 years I thought Ben Whishaw was married to fashion designer Christopher Bailey. Apparently, Ben and Christopher got married the same year, and Christopher’s husband is an actor, but they’re not actually married to each other. Thanks for setting the record straight (so to speak).

Most people on this thread type fat.

He's a "problem" on DL because there are three major types of men here: 1) men who are obsessed and disgusted by overweight men, 2) men who think the only gay men of any value are muscled, and a growing population of 3) men who are into fit/fat or chunky.

There is not a large vocal contingent that like and appreciate skinny men or - more significantly - men with normal bodies.

Numbers 1 and 2 seem to be the largest contingents, or at least the most vocal. Hence, anyone that doesn't fit either stereotype is not comprehensible.

Ben Wishaw is not a stereotype. For some men on DL that means he doesn't, or shouldn't exist.

He's just naturally a bean pole.

His physique isn't manufactured by dieting or anything. Just one of those stick thin guys.

Probably cant put on weight if he tried.

AIDS?!?

'Waif" and "faun" are his brand. He'd be unemployed if he got beefy.

What would happen to his career if he got rid of the wig he stole from the actress who played Iola on “Mama’s Family?”

It's "the AIDS", R31, especially if he's "a gay".

Watched Adam Driver in "House of Gucci"...yeah, his face is bad, but there's something so hot about him. I can't explain it, but he is sex on a stick.

[quote] If you wanted to endear me to Whishaw's acting, what should I watch?

The Paddington films.

What was the miniseries he made with Pete Postelthwaite?

I think Justice was in the title. He was wrongly accused of something.

While in America...

Ben Whishaw, Adam Driver, Adrian Brody, and John Bernthal should co-star in a movie about 3 brothers who are simultaneously ugly and hot. Their father could be played by Bill Murray…

Ben is a wonderful actor and I do believe he's just naturally this thin, but I do prefer it when it keeps his clothes on

He has a lovely big willy, unfortunately hasn't shown it onscreen in years.

I find, and I have always found, Ben to be absolutely lovely, just the way he is.

Let's bake a cak for Ben.

I like him as an actor, but he is too thin (for my personal taste). I read his recent interview in The Guardian and he comes off as a little twee.

His is not a "normal body," r29. "Normal" does not include Dachau-ribs. "Normal" for an adult male does not mean a figure with a 20" waist.

On his side of the graph there is normal, slim, thin, and eat-a-sandwich-forGodsake.

[quote]"Normal" does not include Dachau-ribs.

r46 = Whoopi Goldberg

[quote]He's just naturally a bean pole.

He is. He's said in his the past he's tried to bulk up for roles but nothing works.

[quote]His is not a "normal body,"

Watch any video on YouTube of street crowds before 1960. Most people are thin. As thin as Whishaw. But keep saying he hasn't a normal body if it reassures you in your chubbiness that you're just "a little overweight".

^ I agree. It’s shocking to see old movies where everybody is thin.

I recently watched an Icelandic/Nordic noir series, & there was a running joke about a character being fat, & he was maybe 10 lbs overweight.

Haven’t clothing sizes changed too over the years? Obviously sizes had to added as people became morbidly obese. But even “normal” sizes had to be altered upwards.

He should take advantage of his current body type and do a Holocaust biopic. I’ve always wanted to see Man Search for Meaning done as a movie. Or perhaps a very scathing biopic of Bruno Beetelheim?

He can’t lose 5lbs for a role or anything. He’s probably 130 depending on his height. I like men like this.

[quote] His is not a "normal body," R29. "Normal" does not include Dachau-ribs. "Normal" for an adult male does not mean a figure with a 20" waist.

Exactly.

You people defending his weight, truly have no idea how little you can eat to maintain Ben's weight and body type.

I know someone whose body looks just like Bens, and he eats almost nothing. He'll only drink coffee and smoke cigarettes. And he acts almost as if he's scared of food.

This weight is NOT normal. And it's as unhealthy as being morbidly obese.

I'm always struck by how thin and tiny Elizabeth's father George VI and uncle Edward VIII are in those old photos. What's that about? Was it some sort of effete ideal back in the day for upper class men? The women look perfectly normal sized or even matronly. It's like those weird insect species where there is a extreme dimorphism between the male and female.

Maybe Phil was so attractive to the queen cause he looked like a normal man.

Elizabeth’s father was a chain smoker who died from lung cancer. Of course he was thin.

Is it really true that being underweight is as bad for your health as being overweight? I thought you had to be pretty malnourished before being underweight was as bad as being overweight.

Adam Kay isn't skinny now. (The doctor character). Was he skinny then? Is Ben's weight unrelated to the role?

Ben Whishaw looks just fine and healthy to me. Today people are expecting every man under 40 to be overly muscular like a male gym bunny.

In 2001's My Brother Tom

The most filled out I've seen him was in 2015's LONDON SPY.

Is this show available to watch in the US?

So how is the series? It looks like one episode after another of "How Terrible the NHS is" with an an assortment of oddball patients & asshole (but mostly well-meaning) doctors.

The Guardian gave it a thumbs up, commenting on the realistic medical gore on display (including a prolapsed umbilical cord). In the show, sketelal Ben is too exhausted to eat, apparently. He sleeps instead of eating.

He's very sexy

I’ve liked his in what I’ve seen him in. In the first picture I thought he’d starved himself for a role, like Christian Bale did for The Mechanic. Ben’s ass is nice and doesn’t look too bony and that’s what counts. I don’t remember having seen it before.

[quote]I'm always struck by how thin and tiny Elizabeth's father George VI and uncle Edward VIII are in those old photos. What's that about? Was it some sort of effete ideal back in the day for upper class men? The women look perfectly normal sized or even matronly. It's like those weird insect species where there is a extreme dimorphism between the male and female.

Men are supposed to have a body fat percentage of around 13% and women are supposed to have a body fat percentage of around 25%.

People who think that men are normally "a bit chubby" are fucking retarded. Men are normally a bit thin and women are normally a no t chubby.

There IS a big difference between men and women's bodies. Androgyny is an aberration.

women are normally a bit chubby*

When did he whip his cock out?

I'd bang that bag of bones.

He starred in Perfume, based on the Patrick Suskind novel. A strange, compelling performance as a perfumier in 18th century France. Dustin H. is also in it and DH's performance is Grade A Ham.

Seems like some of you have never known men who just have a very high metabolism and can eat as much as they want without putting on weight. John Hurt was another actor of that body type.

Ben is great in My Brother Tom, Stoned, Perfume, Bright Star, The Hollow Crown, Cloud Atlas, Lilting, Queers, London Spy, A Very English Scandal, Fargo, and Surge (a recent nude scene, R42, and much more erotic than what OP has linked). And he's received high marks for his stage work, including a Laurence Oliver award nomination for Hamlet.

His bussy is hard and bony...

of course it's going to hurt

if you can even get it into his little shriveled-up hole

R68 I think he flashed his hairy, nicely-sized pinga years ago in "Stoned".

He's a grower, too. My friend told me Ben is between 8-9, super thick and veiny, shoots jets of very watery loads.

One of the best Brit actors right now.

The room has to be completely dark, because he's so sure that his body is disgustingly unacceptable

[quote] Seems like some of you have never known men who just have a very high metabolism and can eat as much as they want without putting on weight.

Sure, Jan.

No such thing.

Ben is anorexic. And you're an enabler.

[quote]So how is the series? It looks like one episode after another of "How Terrible the NHS is" with an an assortment of oddball patients & asshole (but mostly well-meaning) doctors.

Pretty much. But it's well acted and well written with a great soundtrack so I can live with the tropes.

R22 is right, he's just on the thin side of normal, something which most people in the US (and Australia etc) just dont get to see because so many people are overweight or obese

He takes his scrubs off half a dozen times in the first episode alone and has perfectly proportioned body. Some heffalumps here are deranged.

It's a terrific show.

He's going to get his third BAFTA for this.

R80, right, going to check if this is on Netflix now - not here it isnt. Apparently I can view it on BBC's iPlayer using a VPN which I've got. It's medical though and apparently features a" tsunami of bodily fluids’”. And I'm not good with medical shit, which is why I look after my health to avoid having to deal with it!

Might have to slog through it all anyway just to get a look at that perfectly proportioned body, cos damn you is right about that, he is so hot

Any stills of Ben's big hog?

Ben, erotic ectomorph...

Yes, R83.

Anybody that doubts Ben Whishaw’s acting ability, or any other person that’s not seen him before and is interested in seeing a bit of brilliant acting…

Take a look at his chapter of “Queers” from BBC America: "Queers sees eight new writers respond to the 50th anniversary of The Sexual Offences Act, which partially decriminalized homosexual acts between men in the UK."

His episode is "The Man on the Platform" - Written and directed by the great Mark Gatiss - "A young man returning from the trenches of the First World War recollects a love that dared not speak its name."

(It's available for purchase on Amazon. Google also says - though I wouldn't bet on all of them - Currently you are able to watch "Queers." streaming on fuboTV, DIRECTV, BBC America, Spectrum On Demand, AMC Plus, AMC+ Roku Premium Channel or buy it as download on Apple iTunes, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video.)

Perhaps he should see a doctor.

Something is not right with him.

I have the McAfee VPN, which I can turn on and off (Hulu doesn't function when it is on), but I am still unable to watch the BBC channel This Is Going to Hurt is on. Does anyone have any ideas how I might watch this in the USA? I know I was able to watch London Spy on BBC before it came to the US, but I don't remember how I did that. I don't think I used a VPN.

I'm a big Whishaw fan. I wouldn't change a thing about his spectacular, lovely self.

If you watch it via using a VPN you are stealing so why don't just torrent it, same thing.

[quote] the great Mark Gatiss

the creepy and lavishly-paid luvvie Mark Gatiss

he looks unwell

Google the title and then "watch this". You're welcome.

Just finished the final episode. Fantastic TV. The woman who plays "Miss Houghton", the tough-talking no-nonsense working class surgeon is, with Wishaw, another standout.

Yeah, yeah. All older actors were as skeletal. Sure, Jan.

[quote]The woman who plays "Miss Houghton", the tough-talking no-nonsense working class surgeon is, with Wishaw, another standout.

I loved her and Alex Jennings as Mr. Lockehart.

Are you in the USA, R92? No option to watch comes up via Google or otherwise except for BBC1, which is not accessible in the US.

R14 Ironically, I find both Whishaw and Driver to be fantastic actors, some of the best working today. And neither are "ugly."

r96 Driver is sexy as hell, and a great actor.

[quote]no option to watch comes up via Google

Did you put both phrases in inverted commas with a plus sign between them? No. Course not.

I always get Alex Jennings and Tom Hollander mixed up. Both are great in whatever they do.

He looks disgusting.

Super skeletal people like Ben really gross me out. They're creepy.

I won't watch his movies.

Good for you. Now waddle off.

Was that included in the instructions, R98?

No of course not –– because the only people who don't know how to do a filtered Google search in 2020 should have drool bibs tied round their necks.

Still doesn't come up with anything but trailers and clips, R98. Your instructions are singularly unhelpful. Presuming you're British per your use of "inverted commas" and your general twit/twat level of condescension. Again, not accessible either way in the USA.

Ugly fucking anorexic cunt.

His body makes me want to puke.

Anorexics like Ben are mentally ill.

Oh, the irony.

R105

Why are you here? His name was in the title of the thread.

Ben Whishaw's reality show: "MY 8 STONE LIFE."

Love Ben and love this series. It's so good I ration myself to one episode a night. 'Showered with awards' is often a turn-off, but TIGTH will likely be so.

It's clever, funny, gritty, touching, informative, surprising. Excellent cast. Ben was top of Adam Kay's wish-list, and was overjoyed when Ben said Yes.

The author then didn't mind about his star's 'skeletal' status, a) because it doesn't matter and b) because he's such a brilliant actor. It's great TV.

R108 What’s the American title, cause we ain’t going to bite with that stone stuff?

Yes, But where's his big bone?

8 stone = 112 lbs.

Ben is so cute.

He posted this selfie.

R86 thanks for mentioning this, I did not know anything about it!

Watched one episode on demand tonight - not the Ben one but the one where an older tailor recounts his experiences as it's announced homosexuality is decriminalized.

[quote]His body makes me want to puke.

For slim people to remind you how fat you are must be awful. How selfish of them. They deserve every drop of your spittle. And one imagines there is a lot of it given your fluid retention. Or is the problem big bones?

I saw Ben on stage in NYC years ago and he had a nude scene. The cock was really big soft, so I believe the 8-9 thick story above. Yum.

[quote] I saw Ben on stage in NYC years ago and he had a nude scene. The cock was really big soft

Any cock would look big, next to a twig.

Maybe he should star in a live action version of The Nightmare Before Christmas while he’s this thin, can he sing?

R118 - as a matter of fact he can hold a tune pretty well. Saw him on stage a few years back in a play that involved a bit of singing. He was very good.

R114

Keep going. Every chapter of "Queers" is good. It's a great collection of stories. Some are better than others but all are good writing and great performances.

Rebecca Front in "Missing Alice" is brilliant.

If I remember correctly I thought the weakest one was Russell Tovey.

Ben has always been a little slip of a thing.

For those able to access it it, Queers is available on BBC iPlayer. The Ben Whishaw episode isn’t available on YouTube. I watched some of these when they were first out and had missed the Whishaw one somehow. It was a wonderful series.

If one can endure all the ads, one can watch the Whishaw installment on Dailymotion.

OMG that ad for Chicken Curry is ADORABLE. I had no idea he was such a gorgeous twink. And funny.

Writer Adam Kay needs to brush up on his showtunes. In one episode, a character says, “In the words of Andrew Lloyd Webber, love changes everything.” Every self-respecting gay man knows ALW only writes music, not lyrics.

That body needs a better haircut.

I love his body. Older guys that avoid getting fat are hot.

R71, And I will add the 2-season "The Hour," also with Dominic West.

When is this available in the US?

Ben's cock probably looks hot against his skinny body.

Ben could hook up with that newly single young manorexic model DL is crazy for.

[quote]When is this available in the US?

It's so weird. The rest of the world has seen it as well. Companies really need to fix their rights issues.