Bill Nighy interview in the Telegraph

He did join a garage band at one point, as the singer, ‘but it was all too scary’. His hair was partly to blame for his shaken confidence. ‘I had a catastrophe when I hit puberty in that my hair went violently curly. I tried putting some gunk on it to keep it down but nothing worked. One day a teacher pulled me by my hair to the front of the class and let go, saying: “Nighy, what horrible hair!” ‘ Pause. Gloomy face. ‘The whole class thought it was Christmas. I was called Horrible Hair after that. No one cool had curly hair. This was a disaster because it meant any prospect of my joining the Rolling Stones was gone forever.’

Read the complete Bill Nighy interview in the Telegraph

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