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Amy West

The First Omen star Bill Nighy reveals the biggest thing that attracted him to the horror prequel: "It explodes expectation"

Bill Nighy in The First Omen.

Bill Nighy has played a lot of different types of characters over the course of his career, from rock star and a vampire, to a humanoid squid and a radio producer. With The First Omen, he gets to add 'priest' to that list, and what a priest his character is...

Seeing as there's still a few days left until the horror prequel's release, we won't go into specifics, but if you've watched any of its trailers, you'll know there's something not quite right about Nighy's Cardinal Lawrence. And it's exactly that, the actor tells GamesRadar+, that first drew him to the project.

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