The Scandalous Bill Nighy

Bill Nighy and Cate Blanchett in Notes on a Scandal

Comingsoon.net has an interview with the scandalously talented Bill Nighy about Notes on a Scandal, Pirates and The Vertical Hour.

I’m the only guy [wearing this] and then they show you this picture of this incredibly fantastic, the most dangerous and terrifying thing on the ocean waves, and then they say, “Act!” (laughter) Short of putting a sack over your head or putting a chain around your ankle, it’s like being given a serious handicap. Then between Gore Verbinski and myself, we came up with a way of doing it. I was amazed when I saw the creature, because it had evolved from the pictures I was originally shown. They were pretty much the same, but it was much more beautiful. It was brilliantly achieved, and all those stupid things I did on the set, trying to be scary and weird, they actually had translated them onto the creature.

There was a good day also, because I had a crew that also had to look similarly stupid, so there was a day when I walked around the corner of the set, and I saw six other guys dressed like me, and I nearly kissed them. It was such a big day.

Read the article here, it’s a good read.