KCRW radio program The Business has a 7 minute interview with Bill Nighy about his career, Pirates.
Tune in, and hear it here.
It’s here, the full hour of Bills interview with Charlie Rose is now available on Google video : An Hour with Bill Nighy.
Make a cup of Yorkshire tea, sit down and indulge.
The official site for Notes on a Scandal has another extra film clip with Cate Blanchett and Bill Nighy about filming Notes.
(Hat tip to [...]
A shortish interview with Bill Nighy about Pirates and Notes on a Scandal in Dailynews.
About playing Richard in Notes on a Scandal:
“When we shot the scene where I confront her with the affair, I hit a level of anger I’m not accustomed to reaching for.”
WNYC has a wonderful audio interview with Bill Nighy about Notes [...]
Yeah, yeah, yeah - Bill Nighy and his Golden Globe
Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television. That’s the official name of the Golden Globe Bill Nighy received for his outstanding performance as Gideon Warner in Stephen Poliakoff’s Gideon’s Daughter at this years Golden Globes held in Hollywood [...]
A nice article in the New York post about that Great Brit.
“If they want someone who’s going to roar and shout, they’re generally going to get someone else,” he says. “If they want someone who’s going to be bemused and lost, well, they might think of me.”
Read the article here
(Music Box Theatre, New York)
Another nice interview with Bill Nighy in Sunday’s The Times.
About Dylan, the Vertical Hour, football, being successful, and Matzo-ball soup without the, ehrm, balls.
This Charming Man.
Read it here.
If you are a Bill Nighy fan, your year can’t start any better than with this.
So - make yourself a cup of Yorkshire tea, find a good chair, sit back, and press play, and hugely enjoy 25 minutes with Bill Nighy, talking about his career, theatre and film, acting, being mellow and not the [...]
Bill Nighy - Whitey - Flushed Away
The coolest rat on the planet.
Flushed Away has premiere on 3rd of November 2006.
(More from Flushed Away)
Update: Loads and loads of Flushed Away goodies over at Coming.soon, including a movie featurette, and 10 clips from the film. It’s looking great. (Check the icemaker for Bill)
The Telegraph has a short interview with Bill Nighy about the joy and horror of holidays.
And while there are predictable answers (what does he take with him ? His ipod with Stones and Dylan of course) there are some interesting ones too. Did you know Bill’s spiritual home is the Coco Chanel suite of the [...]
“I don’t lose my temper very often, but in the morning, if I can’t get a jacket off a hanger, or if I can’t plug the kettle in first time, or if a cupboard doesn’t open properly, then I can suddenly become absolutely bloody rattled. Hangers, particularly. I’ve been known to break them.
It’s slightly more [...]
A long interview with Bill Nighy, which was supposed to be about Stormbreaker, but somehow isn’t.
Read the interview at the Scotsman
Bill Nighy as Gideon Warner in Gideons Daughter
BBC America has the most fantastic interview with Bill Nighy, with a lot of interesting questions, and all that in audio files for you to hear.
So if you want to know about:
what is on Bill’s ipod
how Bill unwinds
the status of State of Play
and a lot more about Bill [...]
Three years ago, Bill Nighy was just another jobbing actor. Now he’s a national pin-up and a rising Hollywood star. And he just can’t believe his luck.
But he is at a loss to explain his recent sky-rocketing fortunes. “The odds are against it, aren’t they?” says Nighy, pushing his thick-rimmed glasses back up on to [...]
The Guardian has a rather amusing article about Bill Nighy’s eating habits:
The most precious time in the day is the first hour of the morning with a cup of tea, especially when I am filming. If I have a 5.30am call, then I like to get up at 4.30 for my tea and to read. [...]
Love Actually actor Bill Nighy is thrilled at the prospect of meeting his all-time hero Keith Richards on the set of Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, but he fears he will be too starstruck to speak.
The normally erudite 55-year-old is such a huge fan of The Rolling Stones, he admits he may become [...]