‘Love Actually’ gave Bill Nighy the greatest gift of all—never having to audition for a role ever again.
that he got his start acting in secondary school and that his tall stature was partially responsible for his falling in love with the craft. “We had a drama priest who was keen on putting on plays, and I was tall, which was a result because it meant I didn’t have to play girls,” Nighy said. This led him to study drama at the Guildford School of Acting, where, Nighy said, he “learned not to have my tongue hanging out of my mouth.
“On the medical page it said, ‘If you have a pacemaker or any kind of heart issue, do not attempt the things that Mr. Nighy does on BBC 2.’” What were those things? “Later, I did see in another newspaper, in the listings for TV, it said ‘cunnilingus on BBC 2,’” Nighy said. “And I have no memory of that either.”“The casting ofinvolved a read-through, or I think what they call in America a table read,” Nighy said.
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