Bill Nighy says IVF film ‘Joy’ one of ‘nicest jobs’ he’s ever had

Bill Nighy says 'Joy' one of 'nicest jobs' he's ever hadSource: PA

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00:00It was one of the nicest jobs I've ever had, and that's not PR.

00:04Everyone on it was committed, everybody knew why they were there.

00:07The producer has an IVF family, the director has an IVF family and the writer has IVF children.

00:12So there was that element which, you know, informed the atmosphere to some degree.

00:17And it's a great story.

00:19These people failed over and over and over again for a ten year period against enormous

00:24opposition from the church, from the newspapers, from their families, from the medical association.

00:29Nobody believed in them.

00:31People put scare stories around that the children would be born with abnormalities, that they'd

00:35be deformed, that there would be mutations, all of that kind of tabloid stuff.

00:41And they persevered.

00:42And now it is estimated there are 16 million women who have children who would not have

00:46had children had they not persevered.

00:48So you can't get much of a bigger story than that.