![]() Before that he was at Telluride, in Colorado. He has just flown in from the Toronto International Film Festival. Nighy has always dressed older than his years, so at 72 he looks just as he always has: like a cool older dude.Įven if you didn’t know who he was, and the ripple of attention from other customers as he arrives suggests they do know who he is, you would understand that he was someone interesting, the guy in the corner of the jazz club with some wonderful stories that may or may not be true. There is a copy of the London Review of Books under his arm. His eyes sit behind thick-rimmed glasses. Today it is a beautifully tailored charcoal number over a navy shirt made of wool that looks so soft you want to stroke it. In a development that will not surprise keen Nighy observers, he is wearing a suit. He is tall and angular, his grey hair swept neatly back. He offers a couple of fingers to shake, the others clenched by his Dupuytren’s contracture, a condition he has suffered from since his 20s, before politely suggesting we move to his preferred table. ![]() He glides into a café he has chosen – he likes choosing cafés – around the corner from his home in Pimlico. Bill Nighy has been playing Bill Nighy to glorious effect for nearly 50 years. ![]() Other actors change their look or their approach. ‘Let’s talk about my sexy life,’ he says loudly, furiously chewing gum, before snapping his fingers and summoning a pint of lager. Black in the Eleventh Doctor story " Vincent and the Doctor".Bill Nighy sits down, dressed in a full Crystal Palace kit and running a hand over his recently shaven head. He would later go on, in an uncredited cameo, to portray Dr. What Could Have Been: He was considered for the role of the Ninth Doctor in Doctor Who before the casting of Christopher Eccleston.Typecasting: If he's not hamming, many of his characters have a pensive stumbling delivery with nervous pauses and a somewhat melancholy tone.He's physically about the least-suited actor to playing a Hobbit imaginable, but somehow the use of his voice alone fits perfectly. An odd case with his role as Sam in the BBC radio adaptation of The Lord of the Rings.Nighy's role in Total Recall (2012) shows him as a very serious heroic figure.Fingore: Downplayed He has Dupuytren's Contracture, a condition that causes the fingers (in his case the pinky and ring) to become permanently bent inward.The Comically Serious: He has this down to a science in his roles.Character Tics: He often points and gestures with his middle finger instead of his index.British Stuffiness: A master at these sorts of roles.He didn't want to be one of the few British actors to not be in Harry Potter. Awesome, Dear Boy: His reason for taking smaller supporting roles in Harry Potter and Doctor Who.Howard Clifford in Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019).Ambrose Hilliard in Their Finest (2017).Johnny Worricker in Page Eight (2011), Turks & Caicos (2014), and Salting The Battlefield (2014).High King Emeric in The Elder Scrolls Online (2014) (voice).Hephaestus in Wrath of the Titans (2012).Grandsanta in Arthur Christmas (2011) (voice).Douglas Ainslie in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and its sequel.Rattlesnake Jake in Rango (2011) (voice).Rufus Scrimgeour in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010).A Musée d'Orsay curator with a bow tie in Doctor Who (2010).Elefun/ Professor Ochanomizu in Astro Boy (2009) (voice)
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