‘I never did it!’ Bill Nighy reveals that a job at a club in Paris offered him £200 to sleep with older women there when he was just 16, but he turned it down
Bill Nighy has revealed that a job at a Paris club was going to offer him €200 to sleep with older women there when he was just 16 years old.
The Living actor, now 73, moved to the French capital as a teenager after dropping out of formal education when he applied for a job at a fancy bar there.
But when asked to do more than wait tables, she turned down the job offer, fearing she had no experience.
He said Sun: ‘They offered me a job in a club and explained to me that if I slept with women of a certain age they would give me 200 francs.
‘I never did it because I had never done it and I wouldn’t know how.’
Shock: Bill Nighy has revealed that a job at a club in Paris was going to offer him £200 euros to sleep with older women there when he was just 16.
Youth: The Living actor, now 73, moved to the French capital as a teenager after dropping out of formal education when he applied for a job at a fancy bar there (pictured in 1991)
During the talk, he also reflected on his alcohol and drug use early in his career and how glad he is that he stopped using when he did.
He quit in 1992, the year he got his first big break in television when he was cast in the BBC series The Men’s Room.
Bill said of giving up: ‘If I had kept drinking and taking other drugs, I wouldn’t be having this conversation. That is the central fact of my life. I got help.
“Not a day goes by that I don’t thank my lucky stars that I don’t have to drink.”
It comes as Bill will head to the Oscars on Sunday night, where he is nominated in the Best Actor category for his role in Living.
The film explored the idea of intergenerational friendship, where Sex Education’s Aimee Lou Wood stars as Margaret, a young colleague of Bill’s character Mr. Williams, a civil servant who reevaluates his life decisions after being diagnosed with a terminal illness. .
She previously opened up about her special friendship with co-star Bill with Glamour.
She said, “I love having friendships with older people – whenever I’m in a play, for example, it’s always going to be the older person in the cast that I become best friends with.”
I’m not sure: but when he was asked to do more than wait tables, he turned down the job offer, fearing he had no experience.
Reaction: He told The Sun: ‘They offered me a job in a club and explained that if I slept with women of a certain age, they would give me 200 francs. “I never did it because I had never done it and I wouldn’t know how” (in the 1993 photo)
‘I have many friendships with older men who are totally a space of safety, joy and comfort for me. I see evidence every day of amazing and unlikely connections and friendships.
The film, directed by Oliver Hermanus, centers on the character of Nighy, a civil servant who finds himself rebuilding post-World War II London in 1952.
Aimee and Bill will also star in an upcoming film adaptation of the classic Japanese novel Ikiru.
His character discovers that he has a fatal disease and quickly sets out to discover purpose and meaning for his life before he dies.
He quickly becomes intrigued by a younger colleague who helps him use his years of experience to focus his energy on completing a big capstone project.
Speaking of the movie, Variety reports Ishiguro as saying: ‘The inside story suggests that it is the responsibility of each of us to give meaning and fulfillment to our lives.
‘That even against all odds, we must try to find a way to be proud and happy with the lives we lead.
Busy: It comes as Bill heads to the Oscars on Sunday night, where he’s nominated in the Best Actor category for his role in Living, where he stars opposite Aimee Lou Wood.
“I think this story can speak to many of us forced to spend long hours every day anchored to desks and screens, even more so in this age of COVID, struggling to see what our individual contributions can amount to within the bigger picture. .’
While director Hermanus added that the purpose of the film is to show that one of the purposes of humanity is that each individual’s small contribution may seem insignificant in the grand scheme of things, but that every little effort to help others else is what life is all about.
Living is being developed by Film4 and Ingenious Media, and in association with Kurosawa Productions and executive producer Ko Kurosawa.