Inspired by Music book now on sale and Bill in Rango!

Inspired by Music book for The Prince’s Trust

Bill has contributed to a book for the Prince’s Trust called Inspired by Music

Sponsored by Starbucks, Inspired* by music is The Prince’s Trust new book featuring amazing insights into the lives of our celebrity ambassadors and young people. Each shares their personal account of how one piece of music became their inspiration to survive, to excel, to remember or simply to be happy.

Not only does this book contain contributions from your favourite celebrities (Bill Nighy, Tony Blair, Ozzy Osbourne, Michael Sheen, Richard E. Grant, Al Pacino, Kevin Spacey – just to name a couple), it also contains fantastic portraits by award winning photographer Cambridge Jones, an introduction from Phil Collins and foreword by our president HRH The Prince of Wales.

Bill, not so surprisingly, picks a Bob Dylans song: ‘ Things Have Changed’. His motivation for this: “any song containing the couplet ‘Feel like falling in love with the first woman I meet/putting her in a wheelbarrow and wheeling her down the street’ is more than fine with me.”

If Bill inspires you you want to have this book! Well the good news is that the book can be bought in Starbucks coffee houses across the UK and all other good book retailers in the UK. You can also order the book online here.

Times Online also has an article on this book, see more here.

Bill stars as the villain in Rango

Rango is an animation/motion capture movie about household pets on a dangerous cowboy adventure directed by Gore Verbinski who also directed Pirates. Bill will play opposite Johnny Depp.

Bill will be playing the villain who does battle with Depp’s animated lizard. “I play the bad guy,” he revealed. “I play a very, very bad guy. I’m a rattlesnake and I am a gun-slinging assassin. I literally have a Gatling gun—I have a machine gun in my tail—so I can just spray the whole town. I can kill everybody whenever I wish. I’m brought in by the corrupt sheriff to sort things out. It’s quite cool.”

“Crash, the artist who did all the drawings for ‘Pirates,’ he’s done the creatures and he’s worked with Gore before, obviously on ‘Pirates,’ but on other things as well,” Nighy said. “He’s brilliant. He’s done the drawings for the animation. I think it will be a very cool thing.”

More info when it comes available. Rango is scheduled for a 2011 release.

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Bill on G-Force

The Canadian Observer has an interview with Bill about his role in G-Force.

Any sort of role that he wouldn’t take on?

“I prefer to keep my clothes on at this time of life,” says the beautifully tailored Nighy. “I keep thinking, ‘Well, at least that’s over.’ I’m longing for the day when it’s absolutely out of the question, but there’s always another script that says, ‘He takes his top off,’ and I think, ‘Are you serious?’ ”

And after about 30 years of acting, Nighy got really famous. “Love, Actually is what upped the ante. It is odd, the transition, but I was lucky that it happened kind of gradually, because in London, I’ve been on television since I was in my 20s. So one in 20 people might smile at me on the street. And then it did go to one in five. Some days, you’re very famous. You can’t go anywhere. Other days you’re completely anonymous. There’s just a nice level of notoriety, and to me it’s a positive, and a healthy sign that something you’re doing is working out.”

He adds, “Sometimes in London, where I live, when a bus driver honks and waves his hand and grins at you, you think, ‘This is sort of like a dream.’ ”
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