Ben Whishaw on Black Doves: “A queer assassin had a certain interest for me”

He may have played Q, the hi-tech briefing Quarter-master of 007, with a boffin-like knowledge of life-saving gadgets that is legendary, but Ben Whishaw himself is the polar opposite. We are discussing how ageing it is when one’s fingers don’t race swiftly over the keyboard of a mobile phone. How quick are his? “I can do it quite fast, but if I look at my niece and nephew, they’re on a whole other level of aptitude.”