Joy film review — Bill Nighy gets borderline spiky as obstetrician who pioneered IVF
The film casts Thomasin McKenzie as lab technician Purdy, with two co-stars playing lightly against type: James Norton is bluff physiologist Edwards, and Bill Nighy a borderline spiky version of ...
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Bill Nighy on his IVF origin story Joy: “This was an opportunity to put a bomb under the male tendency to bewilderingly underestimate women”
In his new drama Joy, Bill Nighy plays the pioneering British obstetrician who helped develop IVF treatment. He talks to us about changing attitudes and how he’s had to “reprogramme violently”.