For 'Love Actually Live' star Rex Smith, Billy Mack is Iggy Pop meets Jayne Mansfield

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For 'Love Actually Live' star Rex Smith, Billy Mack is Iggy Pop meets Jayne Mansfield
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The gold lame shorts are his to wear — or not — in the Wallis show that's part film screening, part concert and full-on holiday crowd pleaser.

You’re watching the film, with its nine intertwined story lines and starry ensemble — Colin Firth, Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Keira Knightley — and you’re also watching live actors dressed up like those stars, singing pop hits by Joni Mitchell, Kelly Clarkson, Wyclef Jean, Norah Jones, the Beatles …

Smith‘s may not be a household name these days. But there was a time when mobs of screaming girls pursued him everywhere he went. That was his teen idol phase, starting in 1979 with the made-for-TV movie “Sooner or Later.” Before that, he’d done a hard-rock phase, recording two albums with his band Rex and opening for Ted Nugent. Later he had a TV star phase: “Street Hawk,” “Days of Our Lives,” “Solid Gold.

He has done so much and known so many people that he comes across as a real-life version of the Most Interesting Man in the World from the Dos Equis ads. But as he told The Times in this edited conversation, he still gets a thrill out of performing live, even — or especially? — while wearing nothing but gold lame shorts.You can’t buy what I’m doing. I’m working with hugely talented people, like Anderson Davis [adapter and director of “Love Actually Live”].

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