Was the star of Living making a covert protest on behalf of pygmy rabbits with his Sylvanian squeeze? Or referencing the Taiwanese gay community’s new icon? And what was that spattered over its forehead?
– is closing down after 30 years of business, he held up the Babblebrook rabbit as a protest against online commerce.
But that couldn’t have been it. Because Nighy was already drawing attention to a cause on the red carpet. He was wearing a blue ribbon as an act of solidarity with refugees. And you can’t raise awareness with two separate things on a red carpet, can you, because it muddies the message? You can’t say: “I stand with refugees and also small toy mammals made of flocked plastic,” because then nobody would have a clue what you were about. You’d be laughed out of Hollywood.
Finally, however, we have something approaching an answer. In a statement to Metro, when asked about the mysterious Babblebrook interloper, Nighy said that “My granddaughter’s schedule intensified and I was charged with rabbit-sitting responsibilities. I wasn’t prepared to leave her unattended in a hotel room. The stakes are too high. Where I go, she goes…”Which is lovely – it was nothing more than a dotingly public act of grandparenting.
More than anything, which member of the Babblebrook family was he holding? Nighy already winnowed the field by identifying it as female – and it’s unlikely to be Coral or Pearl – but that still leaves Crystal and Harriet and Jessica and Judy and Breezy. This rabbit is currently the most famous flocked plastic rabbit on Earth, so the world deserves to know.
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