Bill Nighy
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3,810 appearances
13 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 5d ago
Bill Nighy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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mouthing impenetrable Japanese grunts.
And there was a young man in the Olivier Theatre at the National Theatre in London who not only wore shorts to the theatre, but he had the terrible idea of crossing his ankles on the stage.
He was in the front row, so he just sat there and put his feet up on the stage in front of Anthony Hopkins, who's carrying a six-foot bamboo cane.
And he crossed his ankles on the stage so he could relax like he was watching TV.
And I saw Anthony spot him and I feared for the boy.
And Anthony screamed in some kind of Japanese and brought the bamboo cane down so violently within an inch of this kid's head that the boy's legs retreated into his torso.
He got his legs off that stage as quick as he's ever done anything in his life so far.
And he was absolutely terrified.
And the silence was, you know, deep.
No one was breathing in the thousand seater.
And my next line, I was in theatrical heaven.
I was in bliss because my next line was, people are beginning to worry about you, boss.
And I knew that I had the answer to this whole problem.
But I waited because I knew that life was never going to be this good again.
And as soon as I spoke, it would go off like a bomb, but then it would be over.
So I hung on to it for just longer than I ought to have done.
And then I said the line and the whole place erupted.
Not because I'm particularly brilliant, just because it was the perfect line.
And we had to wait for some time before we could resume the acting, the story.
So, yeah, don't cross your ankles on the front of the stage, particularly if you're wearing, you know, manosphere shorts.
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