Bill Nighy

On one job I bought, in the days of CDs, I bought the complete works of The Rolling Stones to take with me.

I think music has played a big part in me acclimatizing to places.

And I took the complete works of The Rolling Stones.

And which was handy because I had a five hour makeup to make me look like a vampire who'd been asleep for a thousand years and been rendered bloodless with tubes coming out of my back, which was a very, very complex and elaborate and quite painful process.

So we played the complete works of the Rolling Stones while that was happening.

I also used to take the poems of Harold Pinter, which seemed to me the most English thing in the world.

That's the other thing about the Rolling Stones.

I don't get particularly homesick.

I did, I think, say on one podcast that when there was a trend for piling food on top of itself and putting in the menu on a bed of, whenever I saw on a bed of in a menu, it made me instantly homesick.

I just wanted to go home.

But apart from that, I don't mind being wherever I am.

I don't really pay much attention because I'm working and I'm kind of used to it.

But I think music would help a great deal.

I know that the Rolling Stones are basically or originally interpreters of Black American music, but there's something about them which is very, very English for me, as are Harold Pinter's poems.

And I used to carry his poems as a kind of, as a sort of charm against foreignness.

Not that I felt besieged or anything,

But they did make me feel like I was at home.

I christen every trailer I'm in.

I work in trailers, you know, on every job you get a caravan.

And I christen everyone with Goat's Head Soup by the Rolling Stones, one of the great albums.