LOS ANGELES (AP) – Bill Nighy and David Hare have created stage and screen magic together for most of their professional lives, with Nighy bringing to impeccable life the words that have earned Hare a clutch of honors.
The actor and writer-director prove just as impressive when managing to banter in separate phone calls about the concluding episodes of “The Worricker Trilogy,” airing the next two weekends on PBS.
Nighy, introduced as British intelligence officer Johnny Worricker in 2011’s “Page Eight,” returns as a spy on the run from powerful forces in Sunday’s “Turks & Caicos” and “Salting the Battlefield,” airing Nov. 16 (check local listings for times).
Told that Hare had described him as playing a man of intrigue who is “incredibly charming and devastatingly attractive to women – big stretch for Bill Nighy,” the actor had a droll response.
“He doesn’t say such stuff when I’m around, because we’d have to kill ourselves shortly afterward,” Nighy said. “We are Englishmen, after all.”