Bill Nighy, Financial Times

Max Miechowski hoots the star of new movie ‘The Beautiful Game’ and talks about arriving late to fame and the necessity of avoiding himself on screen.

"At the Oscars, he bemused photographers by brandishing his granddaughter’s Sylvanian Families rabbit, which had found its way into his luggage. Overall he felt “pretty relaxed. I’m quite old, and I think you run out of the energy to undermine yourself so vigorously. It’s just like, ‘Fuck off, leave me alone, whoever you are, because I’m a perfectly reasonable person and here I am anyway — here we all are, so why not me?’”