“There is absolutely nothing wrong with having no hair and a big oval face, thank you very much!” Rory Kinnear is on a mission to let everyone know how great it is to be bald. He is “evangelical” about it, he says. The actor, perhaps best known for playing M’s chief of staff Bill Tanner in the four most recent Bond films, is a proudly bald man. (He says some kind things about my hairless scalp, too.) “Everyone should see losing their hair less as the descent into ageing, and more as a passing into a phase of self-enlightenment,” Kinnear says.
He’s never been tempted to have implants, or wear a wig? Isn’t that what famous actors in their late 40s do? He rolls his eyes. “I congratulate everyone who is on the brink of baldness. When some might see that as the time to thread, or saw open, or whatever the latest surgery techniques are, I say no. I understand that people have all kinds of attitudes to their appearance and it can be very complicated, but I am really keen that everyone is OK with it.”
