Interview: Bill Nighy

Who’d have thought a thin, unassuming suitwearer could become an in-demand romantic lead who no longer needs to audition?

By Jane Clifton In Entertainment

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16th June, 2012

If you had to choose a poster boy to mark the baby boomers’ cresting of the demographic bubble, it would be hard to go past actor Bill Nighy. He didn’t find serious success until his 50s, and these days, even as a pale, thin, glamorously desiccated and perennially unassuming 62-year-old, he’s increasingly “getting the girl” in his movies. And that increasingly includes Gen-X girls half his age, such as Emily Blunt in Wild Target, and Rachel Weisz in UKTV’s movie, this week’s spy thriller, Page Eight. From appealing cameo status, he has now graduated to become ...

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