After some 50 years in the business, Bill Nighy is used to people getting his surname wrong. It actually rhymes with ‘sigh’: the ‘y’ is silent. “My dad was very particular about it,” he says, “and …
, in which he plays a repressed British bureaucrat diagnosed with a terminal illness. The part was written for him by screenwriter Kazuo Ishiguro, and the actor was thrilled.
It helped, he says, that Sandy Powell’s wardrobe department gave him a defined look: a period three-piece pinstripe suit. “I like it when I only have one costume,” he says. “I get institutionalized in it, and I like the fact that you don’t have to make any more decisions.” The headwear, however, was a different matter. “It’s the weirdest item, a bowler hat. And if you’ve ever worn one, you’d know it. They’re very, very heavy — it’s like wearing a crash helmet.
After a successful stint in regional theater, Nighy came to London in the late ’70s and made his big-screen debut as a delivery boy in 1979’s, starring Joan Collins. All that comes to mind these days is the line, “Flowers for Mrs. Salmon!” and the fee. “They gave me 150 quid,” he says. “It’s funny what you remember.”
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