Bill Nighy says Love Actually quote will be at the top of his obituary

Christmas is almost here, and that means long evenings spent snuggling up on the sofa binge-watching festive films.

And one absolutely classic Christmas movie has inspired Bill Nighy’s obituary when he passes away.

The 72-year-old actor, who became well-known for his role as Billy Mack in the 2003 film Love Actually, swears that his infamous quote from the film will be at the top of his written tributes when that day comes.

In the blockbuster hit directed by Richard Curtis, Nighy took on the role of maturing music star Mack, who was thrilled by the sex, drugs and the rock and roll lifestyle.

And in a recent interview with This Morning, Nighy recalled his iconic line in which his character turns to a TV camera to say: “Hiya kids. Here is an important message from your Uncle Bill. Don’t buy drugs. Become a pop star, and they give you them for free!”

The actor told the ITV hosts Dermot O’Leary and Alison Hammond on the show yesterday: “If I get an obituary, that will be on it.

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“Kids used to run after me in my district, shouting that line.”

He even confirmed that he would ‘never be sick of people talking about Love Actually’, despite it being almost 20 years since the film was released.

He said: “It was a big and important thing for me and changed the way I went to work. I’ll never get bored talking about it.

“People have used it for all sorts of purposes to get through dark times… there’s nowhere in the world where people don’t watch it on a regular basis, every Christmas.”

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Nighy went on to perform in movies like Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest in 2007 and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel in 2011, and is also heading up his new movie Living, where he takes on the role as a veteran civil servant grappling with a terminal illness.

Speaking to The Independent, Nighy shared his views on method acting, believing that he didn’t need to take on the training technique in order to portray the role in this film.

He said: “If you’re in the company of anybody who suggests that an actor has to feel everything that they portray, then you’re talking to somebody who’s basically an amateur.

“Often it’s a way to punish actors. I think drama teachers do it sometimes to control students. To just stand there and say, ‘You’re not feeling it.’

“How do you know I’m not feeling it? What am I supposed to be feeling? You don’t have to have been bereaved in order to act [like] somebody who’s bereaved – otherwise, well, how would we proceed? You know, acting is acting,” he concluded.