Bill Nighy discusses his new film & Sons, in which he plays AN Dyer, a reclusive, Salinger-like novelist confronting his estranged children, played by Johnny Flynn, George MacKay, and Imelda Staunton, along with a secret son played by Noah Jupe.
Nighy rejects the idea that Dyer's bad parenting is excused by his literary talent, comparing it to footballers whose misbehavior gets waved off as part of their genius.
The interview ranges over his phone habits, his dislike of working lunches and Zoom calls, his refusal to wear togas for a role, and his early ambition to become a writer, including a stint working at a hunting and fishing magazine as a teenager.
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