I take this is indicating that you sort of lost interest in long term imprisonment?
Bill will read Dracula!
Loading ...Interview with Bill Nighy, about nearly everything
Pirates III, Notes on a Scandal, Hot Fuzz, Lawless Heart, Enduring Love, Still Crazy you name it, it’s in there.
C: It’s funny you say that–and I don’t want to get into a discussion of process necessarily–but you do endow your characters with a physicality that I’m really not used to seeing. Like in THE GIRL IN THE CAFÉ, the guy is rigid most of the time, but in some of your other roles, like in UNDERWORLD, you’re almost marionette-like in your movements. It seems like a very important thing for you to establish in your characters…
BN: Yeah, it is. I don’t know quite how, it just sort of happens. I know that’s not a very satisfactory answer, but it’s not part of any formal process, because I don’t have one. But, part of it is that I think that if it’s just me turning up, then everyone will go to sleep, so I think I have to do something in order to earn my keep, you know what I mean. In other words, it’s borne of a certain insecurity, I suppose, about my general physical presence, that it’s not substantial enough on its own, which I’m working on, maybe for other roles.
I mean, one of the things about GIDEON’S DAUGHTER was that Steven Poliakoff put a stop to all of that, you know, this is not going to be any of the stuff that you’ve done…forget all the stuff you’ve done before. I want you to be very still, and it was challenging. For the first couple of weeks, I kept having to go up to him after takes and say, Are you sure?, because it was just me standing there, trying to be still, trying to tell the story as best I could without dramatizing it physically. It was very unsettling for me, because it’s not what I naturally do.
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Well, that was lovely! I’ve yet to ever read a more whimsical, delightful person… [I mean, of people still living].
Oh, and kudos on the mention in the interview! You and your cool idea, Miss Ingrid!
Ahum, thank you :)