Bill Nighy: We need total gender equality. English actor Bill Nighy shares his thoughts on gender equality and frustrations about not getting the roles he wants.
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00:00On our way to total civilization, as you will have observed, there's a long way to go yet.
00:14One of the priorities, possibly, is total equality, gender equality, that's the most
00:22civilizing view yet.
00:23And you can judge a society, I believe, in that respect.
00:28We have a long way to go, speaking personally as an Englishman, but great progress has been
00:34made in my life.
00:35And I know, not enough.
00:36I grew up through a period where there was great struggle for women, when I was a younger
00:43man.
00:44Some of that stuff is being eroded, it's very expressive, so I hope, you know, I just don't,
00:51I want to try and be useful in that area, I don't know how I'm going to do that, but
00:52I've worked for many female directors and I don't think it matters.
00:53I once got a telephone call from my agent saying, Hamlet, Moscow, Tokyo, Asia.
01:08I said, I don't want to play Hamlet, she said, no, no, not Hamlet, Claudius, and you realize
01:15you're now Hamlet's uncle.
01:17That's when you know you've passed 40.
01:21And I did once receive a script where I was very keen to play the leading role and they
01:25said you can't play that role, Jack Nicholson's playing that role, which made me look pretty
01:30stupid.
01:31But yeah, so there's been a couple, you can chart your, you know how you're doing in terms
01:35of how you look in a very specific way if you're an actor.