A most peculiar way
He has been a squid-faced ghost pirate, a zombie and a vampire or two. But Bill Nighy has never been an alien. He has fixed that now in the television series The Man Who Fell to Earth. He’s not just any alien, either – he’s Thomas Jerome Newton, the character David Bowie made his own in the 1976 Nicolas Roeg movie of the same name, adapted from Walter Tevis’ 1963 novel.
And Nighy’s not just another Newton. Effectively, the 72-year-old is Bowie’s Newton 45 years later, still earthbound,
