While I recognise the feeling...
I have probably seen the odd movie or two with Bill Nighy in that I enjoyed, but there's something about any role in which he is massive amounts of *EPIC MANPAIN* that makes me wish you could hurl movies at the wall as well as books (he was not the only thing wrong with the movie of I Capture the Castle, but his being entirely wrong as Mortmain was one of them).
However, I quite empathise with his comment in this interview, as a person who likes to sit alone reading in restaurants: “Oh, people thinking because you spend time on your own, you’re troubled,” he nods. “There’s a thing in restaurants, where you’re sitting there, eating, reading a book, and people think that they’re going to be of greater value than any book can be. They think you’re in trouble because you’re reading: ‘He hasn’t got a friend, poor old sod.’ So they come over and sit with you, which is fine. For a bit. But I’ve actually had to stop using a couple of restaurants, because the proprietor insists on coming and sitting and talking with you, because he thinks: ‘Oh, he obviously needs someone because he’s got a book.’
However, we cannot help thinking that was he a less famous person this might not happen, and that this is because the proprietors want to say they are bezzies of his, or at least get some promotion for their establishment: dontcha think? This entry was originally posted at http://oursin.dreamwidth.org/2589308.html. Please comment there using OpenID. View
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