The Limehouse Golemstar Bill Nighy 'always wanted to be a detective'

Ive always wanted to be a detective, he says.

Its an interesting mix of fiction and reality.

I guess you never thought youd play a character who interrogates Karl Marx.

[Chuckles] No, exactly.

And thats another large part of the appeal of the script.

I loved that combination of fictional and factual.

So, yeah, it was great and I thought Henry (Goodman) delivered a great Karl Marx.

You have a lot of scenes with Olivia Cooke, who is well known in America forBates Motel.

What was she like?Shes charming.

Dreamy to do business with.

Id work with her any day of the week, any day of the month.

She made me laugh and shes a really smart and lovely girl.

Tell me about the director, Juan Carlos Medina.Juan Carlos?

He was very cool.

It was his first English-speaking movie.

He had a great eye for detail.

He had the whole movie in his head.

The film has some terrific costumes and sets.Yeah, given its not a very big budget movie.

We did have some difficulty.

We caught the end of a hurricane in Yorkshire.

We built a London street in Yorkshire and that was completely flooded.

You had to shoot the actors above the knees becausebelowthe knees they were underwater.

And the electricians had to lie on the lamps for fear that they would blow away in the hurricane.

And the green screen blew over.

So, that was an interesting day at the office.

The Limehouse Golemis now in theaters and on VOD and Digital HD.

Watch the films trailer, above.