charlie: david hare said, who could succeed bill nighy? the answer -- bill nighy.ill: that is very good. charlie: tell me who tom sargent is. bill: he is a self-made man. he has built every successful restaurant empire. he also owns hotels. he is extraordinarily successful. he was married to a woman he saw modeling in a magazine. they had a family. he met and fell in love with gerry mulligan's character. his wife then dies. he is someone who has not survived his success totally intact. his success is being corrosive. it sometimes is with people who have been very lucky. he has made the mistake of imagining that it is something he did. it is more than luck. it confirms for him something which is not altogether true which is that he is in some way unique and therefore is at liberty to pontificate that is not altogether attractive. charlie: but it is not all luck. bill: no, he has worked hard. charlie: but there is always chance and opportunity and timing. bill: he is not a terrible man. it is a sophisticated play. they both talk rationally at times and they both talk

tonight british actor bill nighy. >> i'm vigilant about kind of registering my good fortune each day. because the odds on it were long like anybody. and it's-- you foe i can as i say when i wake up in the morning i can wake up with a negative head and i have to decode you know just as i'm walking towards the kettle of. you know and i decode it into positivity. because you foe there's so much to be positive about. >> we conclude this evening with tim gunn. >> i don't feel famous. i as i said earlier i count my blessings an thank my lucky stars ef reday. but as chairman of the fashion department at parsons, it doesn't get any better than that in fashion education. i mean i was really at the top of the heap. an proud of it. and was prepared to retire there. and then this phenomenon happened. and the overlapped with parsons for three and a half years. but it was a whole new threshold and provided this whole new dimension to my life. and i still have trouble wrapping my brain around it. >> rose: bill nighy and tim gunn when we fund. >> funding for charlie rose is provided by the following:

bill nighy, who we've had on the show before -- gosh, he's a great guy. >> he is. >> jimmy: i just want saying this, or you, that the motorcycle scene in the first movie, you didn't want to do. >> no. >> jimmy: because you were scared on the motorcycle. is that true? >> yes, i was kept rather away from it. i just knew i had to travel on the back of it a lot, and i just -- he got on with it and rehearsed it a lot, and i just prayed. [ light laughter ] and then came the time -- and i knew that what i had to do was sit sidesaddle without a a helmet on the back. and just look. that was fine. and we were going along like this. and i thought, "this is perfectly all right." and then i heard john madden say to bill, "wave, bill." so he immediately took one hand off the -- [ laughter ] >> jimmy: and you're doing the sign of the cross. like, "please, please." yeah. but the fun thing is they made you do it again in this film. >> they did. we did it again. you go along until you get it right. >> jimmy: yeah. so when you watch the film, you can see how frightened judi dench is on the back of this mo

. >> jimmy: "skylight," bill nighy. i love this guy. away and then an old affair, old flame, he comes back and reunites with you. >> yes. >> jimmy: and in the play, this what -- you make spaghetti bolognese. >> yeah. >> jimmy: okay? and you go it's acting, i know how to do that. but do you actually make spaghetti bolognese? >> yeah, i do. >> jimmy: and a woman -- because i'm assuming you get every type of crowd, and every audience member. >> we get great crowds. >> jimmy: yeah but also some funny ones. one woman's like -- >> yeah, she was commenting the whole cooking part. she was like, oh, wasn't whispering. she's like "oh, my god, it's an onion." [ light laughter ] i was like, "yes." and then she repeated out. like every ingredient. "oh, tomatoes!" [ laughter ] yeah. she just repeated the whole recipe. >> jimmy: i mean, come on. you actually make -- you make spaghetti bolognese on -- >> from scratch, yeah. on stage every night. >> jimmy: are you a good cook? >> no, no. but i've gotten much -- i can make spaghetti bolognese. [ laughter