Bill Nighy

And also, don't let anyone persuade you into linen.

Often when decent, straightforward, right-thinking English people go into hot places, they are persuaded into wearing linen, which is obviously, you know, wrong.

Women can wear linen, but men forget about it.

I've made TV series.

I've made whole films in very, very hot countries.

And no linen has ever had contact with my flesh.

I went to India and made two films in India.

No linen was harmed during the making of those two films.

Ernesto, that's a very, very good question.

In earlier times, I used to find, like you, and I think you sound like somebody considerably younger than me, and I also used to have a kind of, not a literal hangover, but a real kind of physical hangover from social events and social occasions because I would get so tense and so wired, usually because I drank too much coffee.

I used to drink

an enormous amount of coffee.

I would drink a double espresso prior to meeting someone in order to make myself more interesting.

And I don't know if I consciously thought that every time it became a reflex.

And I would drink a can of Coca-Cola, which I thankfully don't do anymore, which is, of course, preposterous, like I get any more interesting because of a stimulant.

But anyway, the answer to your question is hard to find.

I'm now easier in public situations, in social situations.

I tend to try and ask questions and just inquire after people's health and let them do the talking.

The danger for someone like myself who does not come easily to these affairs is when you do start talking, to talk too much.

And I would open up unnecessarily and find myself confiding in people that I'm probably never going to meet again.