{"id":49735,"date":"2024-04-17T12:08:09","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T10:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=2026367"},"modified":"2024-04-17T15:36:05","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T13:36:05","slug":"henry-cavill-reveals-ministry-of-ungentlemanly-warfare-true-story-inspired-james-bond","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/henry-cavill-reveals-ministry-of-ungentlemanly-warfare-true-story-inspired-james-bond\/","title":{"rendered":"Henry Cavill reveals Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare true story inspired James Bond"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cavill also addressed whether he will ever put on the tuxedo and play Bond himself. <\/p>

By James Hibbs\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Wednesday, 17 April 2024 at 10:08 AM<\/p>

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Guy Ritchie\u2019s new film, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare<\/a>, is releasing in US cinemas this week, and it is partly based on the true story of a covert British spy organisation during the Second World War, called the Special Operations Executive.<\/p>\n

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Alongside actors such as Henry Cavill<\/a> and Alan Ritchson, the film also stars Freddie Fox as Ian Fleming, the iconic author behind James Bond \u2013 and Cavill has revealed that any similarities between his character, real-life figure Gus March-Phillipps, and Bond himself are not unintentional.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/span><\/span><\/span>Speaking on The Rich Eisen Show<\/a>, Cavill said: <\/span><\/span>\u201cI\u2019m sure Ian Fleming wrote James Bond with a lot of stories, a lot of different characters in mind, but as I understand it, Gus March-Phillipps was one of the stronger influences.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cAnd, in fact, they all had code numbers, and Gus was W01, which is what eventually became 007 over time. They all had these little code numbers, just so they could reference each other and be deniable in their operations.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Alex Pettyfer, Alan Ritchson, Henry Cavill, Hero Fiennes Tiffin and Henry Golding in The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare<\/span><\/figcaption> Dan Smith for Lionsgate<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

Cavill continued: \u201cAlso, Gus March-Phillipps, I have recently learned, and I may be wrong in this too, but I\u2019m fairly sure I\u2019m not, was also an amateur author and poet, and he had written a book about a spy, based on his adventures as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd, had he not died during World War Two, he may have beaten Ian Fleming to the punch.\u201d<\/p>\n

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