‘In real life, people aren’t heroic’: Annette Bening and Bill Nighy on why marriages implode

The two actors talk about their new film, Hope Gap, and along with co-star Josh O’Connor and director William Nicholson, share their thoughts on honesty, fidelity and the perils of talking at breakfastBill Nighy would like you to know that he is not a professional agony uncle.

“If I start talking as if I’m an expert on sexual relations, call a cab,” he says, down the phone, from under a tree, familiar drawl mixed with a snort.

Same goes if you want to talk about faith.

“I’ve had no contact with the supernatural or made any connections with other dimensions.

I don’t have any answers.

I don’t get out much.

And, what with the pandemic, I obviously get out even less.”Trouble is, to discuss Nighy’s new film – about the abrupt end of a long marriage – is to wade immediately into Dear John territory.

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