Bill Nighy says holding a baby for new IVF film Joy was a ‘very edgy day’

Bill Nighy has said holding a “slippery baby” erstwhile filming a Caesarean conception country for his caller movie Joy was a “very edgy day”.

Based connected a existent story, the play follows 3 pioneering British scientists successful the 1960s and 1970s and their conflict to make IVF.

Nighy, 74, plays Patrick Steptoe, the obstetrician and gynaecologist who helped make successful vitro fertilisation (IVF) alongside caregiver Jean Purdy and physiologist Sir Robert Edwards.

Appearing connected ITV’s This Morning, the Love Actually prima recalled filming the country erstwhile helium delivers the world’s archetypal IVF baby, Louise Joy Brown, via Caesarean.

He joked: “It’s not that complicated, it’s a mates of incisions and it’s a batch of muscle, and you’re out. I could astir apt propulsion it off.”

The Oscar-nominated histrion added: “It was a precise edgy time due to the fact that it’s a agelong portion since I’ve held a slippery babe and they had to smear immoderate it was implicit the kid and determination were tons and tons of takes, it was a precise hard floor. I had bedewed gloves.”

Directed by Ben Taylor, the movie besides stars Happy Valley histrion James Norton arsenic Sir Robert and The Power Of The Dog’s Thomasin McKenzie arsenic Ms Purdy.

Nighy said Taylor, shaper Amanda Posey, and writer Jack Thorne each person IVF children which helium recovered to beryllium encouraging alternatively than added pressure.

The movie besides revealed to him the interaction of IVF for those adjacent to him, saying: “It’s similar anything, erstwhile you get progressive successful thing that you don’t peculiarly cognize about, past successful this case, I past observe that a ample percent of the radical I cognize person been touched by IVF, either straight oregon indirectly, due to the fact that it’s been truthful successful.”

Nighy, who is known for starring successful Richard Curtis’ Love Actually and successful the Pirates Of The Caribbean movie series, said moving connected Joy was “one of the champion jobs” helium has ever had.

He added: “It’s specified a large story, astir which I knew precise small until I got the gig.

“It’s rather bonzer these 3 people, 2 scientists and Patrick Steptoe, the surgeon who I play, persisted for 10 years and they failed and they failed and they failed and the newspapers called them ‘Doctor Frankenstein’, and the religion came retired against them, and radical didn’t speech to them, they got nary support, oregon backing from anywhere.

“Yet they continued. And Louise Brown was born, astir apt 47 years ago, and they were past hailed arsenic aesculapian pioneers and the religion retired their disapproval and now, it is estimated, 16 cardinal women who person children who would not person had children had they not persisted.”

Joy is disposable connected Netflix from Friday.