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British acting legend reflects on his most iconic roles | Bill Nighy Interview · The Smallzy Show

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  Speaker 1: A small show, the smallesy show. Right now, we are
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  Speaker 1: about to sit down with an absolute movie making legend.
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  Speaker 1: He is a British actor, He's an icon. I flew
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  Speaker 1: to London to sit down with him to talk about
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  Speaker 1: his new high octane action comedy. It is called Write
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  Speaker 1: or Die. It's just dropped on Prime Video. It also
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  Speaker 1: stars Octavia Spencer and this afternoon's guest. Our next guest
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  Speaker 1: has starred in Love Actually.
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  Speaker 2: Best shag you ever had, Britney.
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  Speaker 1: Spears, Pirates of the Caribbean. What is your purpose here,
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  Speaker 1: Jack Sparrowson. We just had a list and the new
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  Speaker 1: show Ride or Die.
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  Speaker 2: Make a choice of your true organization.
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  Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome.
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  Speaker 2: My name is Phil nah Bill.
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  Speaker 1: Pleasure to meet you and you I feel like and
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  Speaker 1: I mean this was an absolute love. As an Australian,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if there's anyone more British than you.
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  Speaker 1: If someone was to say, just describe me someone British,
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  Speaker 1: You're who comes to mind.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's very strange. And you're not the only person
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  Speaker 2: who said that to me.
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  Speaker 3: And a woman in the street recently ran up to
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  Speaker 3: me and she said, you're so and then she struggled
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  Speaker 3: for something to say, and she said English. And I
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  Speaker 3: was checked what I was wearing, Yeah, like nothing particularly
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  Speaker 3: and I wasn't wearing a union jacket or anything, or
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  Speaker 3: a bowler hat, and I don't And a young woman
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  Speaker 3: in Rome ran up to me. I was walking to
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  Speaker 3: dinner and I was wearing, you know, normal kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 3: And she walked up and said, you look so English.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't really understand what it means.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what it means either. All I'm telling
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  Speaker 1: you is is that city opposite you.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm yeah, I'm not complaining, you know what.
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  Speaker 1: Also, and this is a compliment. Whenever I see you
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  Speaker 1: as in a role, I have to take a beat
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  Speaker 1: because I don't know whether you're a good guy or
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  Speaker 1: a bad guy.
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  Speaker 2: Oh well, that's good.
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  Speaker 1: We like that, Yes we do.
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  Speaker 2: That's very very good.
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  Speaker 1: IMDb says one hundred and eighty nine projects kidding is right.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I don't know. I never looked, but it's possible.
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  Speaker 3: I am old enough, you know, I looked. Last time
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  Speaker 3: I looked, I can't remember last time I looked at
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  Speaker 3: It was about sixty but that was a long time ago.
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  Speaker 1: When people come up to you and scream at you
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  Speaker 1: on the street. You very British. What's the character that
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  Speaker 1: you probably get recognized for the most?
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  Speaker 2: It depends on their age.
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  Speaker 3: If they're between the age of fourteen and twenty seven,
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  Speaker 3: it's usually from Shawn of the Dead, okay, or if
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  Speaker 3: they are I mean The Pirates of the Caribbean is
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  Speaker 3: nine to ninety. But then I'm always curious because they
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  Speaker 3: come up and go Davy Jones, and.
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  Speaker 2: You go, how do you know that? Yeah, I haven't
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  Speaker 2: got any tells.
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  Speaker 3: But the answer to your question is a runaway about time,
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  Speaker 3: the dad in a Time.
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  Speaker 1: But also to what a tear jerker character, the speech,
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  Speaker 1: the relationship that character built with his son in About Time.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it's a wonderful film. And Richard Curtis, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: he gave up directing after that film, which I think
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  Speaker 3: is a great shame.
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  Speaker 2: It's great shame for me.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously, but I think he kind of said everything he
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  Speaker 3: wanted to say, and that has entered the language and
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  Speaker 3: it's easily the film that people mostly talk to me about.
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  Speaker 1: You've now done the pivot into playing is it a
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  Speaker 1: good guy? Is a bad guy? The director? I saw
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  Speaker 1: you in a movie on the plane on the Way
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  Speaker 1: Over Shelter, You also played a very similar character. Are
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  Speaker 1: you the good guy? Are you the bad guy?
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  Speaker 2: Have you seen the whole series?
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  Speaker 1: No, I have not the whole thing.
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  Speaker 2: Well, then I can't.
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  Speaker 1: Don't ruin it.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: Bill Night is on the air with us now. He
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  Speaker 1: is starring opposite Octavia Spencer and Hannah Waddingham in the
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  Speaker 1: new action adventure comedy. The show's called Ride or Die.
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  Speaker 1: It's on Prime Video. Let's take a listen to the
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  Speaker 1: trailer and then we'll keep chatting to the icon that is,
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  Speaker 1: who are these people? Your husband stole millions from the mob?
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  Speaker 1: Another after you just.
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  Speaker 3: The last important thing in the world to me, make
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  Speaker 3: a choice of your friend this organization.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to steal your cough So sorry, sir.
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  Speaker 1: Do you have spy capabilities within you? Are you a liar?
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  Speaker 3: I think I am a good layer. I think because
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  Speaker 3: at least I like to think I'm a good lawyer.
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  Speaker 3: I've just read a book called, a very good book
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  Speaker 3: called Attention Seeking Behavior, which is all about lying. It's
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  Speaker 3: a novel anyway, but I think yeah, because acting the
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  Speaker 3: cliche is that it is lying, and it's like telling long,
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  Speaker 3: elaborate lies. So you have to be quite good at it.
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  Speaker 3: So I figured I would be quite good at lying.
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  Speaker 3: Whether I'd have the nerve, that's another question.
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  Speaker 1: Favorite part of the new series. Is it the co stars?
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  Speaker 1: Is it the lying? Is it just you know, being
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  Speaker 1: the director and being the one that calls the shots.
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  Speaker 2: It's nice to be the boss. Yes, it's nice. It's
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  Speaker 2: fun to be the boss.
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  Speaker 3: And I, you know, and I had a huge office
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  Speaker 3: the size of a cathedral. I had a huge desk.
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  Speaker 3: I was dressed to the nines.
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  Speaker 1: When it comes to like the spy stuff, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: if it's six or the CIA, or whoever it is,
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  Speaker 1: how into our lives do you think they are? Did
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  Speaker 1: you get an window into doing any of these roles
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  Speaker 1: that you've played, sort of like in that sort of
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  Speaker 1: spy area.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't from the roles I play, but I read
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  Speaker 3: every espionage every decent espionage novel it's ever been published.
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  Speaker 2: I've read it, like a lot of people. I'm a
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  Speaker 2: sucker for all that stuff.
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  Speaker 3: And I think the answer to your question is they
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  Speaker 3: are deeply into our lives, but they are also as
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  Speaker 3: incompetent as everybody else, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: They can be as deep as they want. But if
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  Speaker 1: they can't put it together, whoys. My final question for you,
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  Speaker 1: because I'm running out of time. I got told here
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  Speaker 1: that everyone who lives in London has a Bill nice story.
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  Speaker 1: Have you heard this theory?
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  Speaker 2: I have heard this.
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  Speaker 1: It's like the six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, as in,
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  Speaker 1: everyone who lives in London has a story of running
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  Speaker 1: into you on the street.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's true because I and it's entirely because I
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  Speaker 3: don't own a car, and because I make no concessions
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  Speaker 3: to the fact that I'm on television or anything. So
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  Speaker 3: I walk about because if I can't walk about, then
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  Speaker 3: the game's up. Now that I've got a podcast, the
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  Speaker 3: podcast has generated a lot more interested in me, so
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  Speaker 3: I get I mean, rather than films. Now the people
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  Speaker 3: that come up from industry inevitably now say, you know,
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  Speaker 3: if I can quote without being begging myself up, they say,
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  Speaker 3: I love your podcast, which is called ill advised by Bill.
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  Speaker 1: No, well, I've got to be a nice story now too,
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  Speaker 1: so and mine was thara and thoroughly great and entertaining.
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  Speaker 1: So thank you for the time, my pleasure, Thank you show.
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