Bill Nighy on set of Statuesque

BIll Nighy is starring in Statuesque, a new short film which tells the story of a love triangle between two living statues and an admirer who observes his object of affection every day among the Christmas shoppers – but is unaware that he too is being watched.

It is a silent short film written and directed by Neil Gaiman, who wrote Coraline and Stardust. Statuesque will be broadcasted on Sky around Christmas.

Neil Gaiman twittered and wrote on his website that he was going to start shooting this movie in London, and actually wouldn’t mind people to come down and watch the process.

Bill looked pretty marvelous in his 60’s style Chicago gangster suit, his dark sunglasses makes him a perfect Blues Brother, but in the scenes he replaces his dark shades with some normal ones which turns him into a quintessential British gentleman with umbrella.

His scenes took a couple of hours after which they moved on with other cast members. I am sure that he will be shooting more scenes, but don’t currently know when these will be shot and where.
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The Modern Delight book I wrote about earlier is now available to buy on the Waterstones website. Both the Guardian and the Press association write about it.

“Bill is a little more enigmatic and declines to explain why he enjoys seeing a bag-less woman merely including the small delight in a list of other little pleasures such as seeing Michelle Obama high-fiving a school girl.”

The book costs £9.99 and its proceeds go to charity.