Nearly two decades after "Love Actually" came out, people still associate Bill Nighy with the role that stole that movie, the gleefully self-absorbed Billy Mack. Strike up a conversation with him, and it soon becomes clear that he's nothing like that rock star. However, playing Billy may have paved the way for Nighy to take on a role intimately associated with a real music legend, the one who played Thomas Jerome Newton in Showtime's series "The Man Who Fell to Earth."
Although the drama's plot expands upon Walter Tevis' 1963 novel, most people are more familiar with the 1976 film adaptation starring David Bowie as an alien who comes to our planet and quickly innovates game-changing technological wonders. His goal is to build a spaceship to return to his dying planet Anthea and ferry the few survivors to Earth, but on his way to his test flight he's captured and tortured.
