A warm blue day with Bill Nighy

Also Timeout has a very nice interview with the master of the Ocean (Bill Nighy).

Of course they talk about Pirates, and Davy Jones but they also talk about Hot Fuzz, Stormbreaker, Notes on a Scandal (which seems to is coming in the fall this year) and the best news from this article is probably that Bill Nighy is going to work on another new film called Warm Blue Day (a low-budget independent movie in Los Angeles).

“So how did you end up with a part in the ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ sequels?

It seems they thought of me when they wanted someone to inhabit a half-squid, half-crab sea creature monster. They needed somebody to do that and apparently I drifted into their minds.

Do you worry about going over-the-top in a role like that?
Well, I don’t know what the top is – it’s always mystified me – over-the-top, under-the-top. But movie reality is different to normal reality, and squid reality is another level. I was quite self-conscious early on, but I worked out I had to go big straight away, as soon as the rehearsals started, to break the spell of self-loathing and the wave of shame that comes over you doing such a silly job. I mean, he’s got a crab leg, a hand claw and tentacles coming out of his chin. This man has a beard that can play the organ, so where’s the top there?”

Read the whole Bill Nighy Q&A on Time Out online.

Things are going well for Bill Nighy. And that is so absolutely deserved.

‘Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest’ opens on July 6 (for us not making it to the world premiere in Disneyland next weekend); ‘Stormbreaker’ opens on July 21. It’s going to be a great summer.