Scandalous Bill Nighy, Now on Broadway
No British film would be complete these days without Bill Nighy in in the cast. After portraying the newspaper editor we all wished we worked for in STATE OF PLAY (BBCAmerica), the 56 year old character actor's career seemed to suddenly skyrocket. He was the aging rocker in LOVE, ACTUALLY, the vampire patriarch in UNDERWORLD, the shifty government attache in THE CONSTANT GARDNER, and the unloved stepdad in SHAUN OF THE DEAD.
“It’s like I won a competition this year, and this is the prize,” Mr. Nighy tells the New York Times, shortly before the opening of a new David Hare play on Broadway. “To go to work every day with three of the greatest actresses currently operating in the world is identifiable as a pretty good gig. I think these are very specific stories, women who need a significantly older man, and happily they sometimes think of me,” he said of the players who, to his consternation, have helped transform him into what he called the “thinking woman’s crumpet.”