Uh... best shag you've ever had? Britney Spears. No, only kidding. She was rubbish.
The Times has a wonderful article about Bill and what makes him tick. There is only one thing to say: Go read it.
If you want to know what gets Bill Nighy really excited, put him in a room on a chair in front of a window at night. It would be dark and raining and [...]
Firstly Happy New Year to all readers!
Secondly there is the new trailer of G-Force in which you can see Bill as Leonard Saber, an evil billionaire. You know, the one with the Australian accent.
Question: So how is your Australian accent? Am I going to be cringing in the aisles?
Nighy: Probably, yes. [LAUGHTER] What can I [...]
BFI is celebrating 75 years of film and TV culture and to mark their 75th birthday, they asked 75 key figures from the world of film and current affairs 2 questions:
Q1 Which one film would you wish to share with future generations?
Q2 What excites you about the future of the moving image?
Of course Bill Nighy [...]
The Independent has an article about “the rise of the silver swingers” and made a list of the men they think are “Groovy Old Men”.
Now Bill is surely one of the youngest on the list (which also includes men like David Bowie, Leonard Cohen and Gabriel Byrne) but there is no doubt that he is [...]
As we already know, Bill spent most of his week being a “be’nighy’n nuisance” around the G8 summit and to remind everyone of the promises that have been made on previous G8 summits.
For the Observer he wrote up his week, and you can read about his air guitar habit, his obsession with suits, his [...]
Another update in the filmography section:
Bill Nighy – Oliver Latham in Unnatural Causes
Bill Nighy as Alan Sinclair in Peak Practise: Growing Pains
Bill Nighy as Roger Maitland in Performance: The Maitlands
Bill Nighy as David Cleeve in Wycliffe: The Four Jacks
A big thank you to you know who you are!
And if you hadn’t noticed yet, there is [...]
Bill Nighy doodle 2008 (used with permission of NDD)
It’s doodle time again, The National Doodle day is coming up and celebrities have been doodling like crazy. Bill Nighy contributed with another one of his masterpieces too.
There is much more Doodle reading on the National Doodle Day website
You can vote for Bill’s doodle there (with your [...]
Everybody’s favourite actor is celebrating his 58th birthday today. And with a new G-Force, the Underworld prequel and a role in the new Richard Curtis The boat that rocked it seems that there are a lot of Nighy delights waiting for us.
Happy Birthday Bill!
A couple of new images have been added to the filmography section. [...]
Bill supports the RSPCA’s firework campaign that should make people aware of the distress fireworks causes to animals. With Bonfire Night coming up in the UK this weekend this seems an important issue.
In a new radio ad, David Schneider is trying to put earplugs in his cat’s ears to protect it from firework noise. Bill [...]
The Guardian has more information about Coping Strategies, and a lovely and passionate interview (audio) with everybody’s favourite actor.
Hear Bill about wearing “a very bad jumper”, about working alongside people with learning disabilities and the effect of doing plays or film on people with those difficulties.
Read the article on the Guardian.
Hear Bill talking about the [...]
“Snow snored, like a big dog, all over town”
(Click the image for a larger version of Bill’s work)
Bill Nighy has again created one of his artistic masterpieces for the Pushing The Envelope charity auction.
Bill Nighy and a host of other celebrities have been using their creativity to design envelopes and raise money for the National [...]
From the Telegraph:
A recent convert to the tie is Bill Nighy, the star of Pirates of the Caribbean, Love Actually and Notes on A Scandal.
“I never used to wear a tie when I was younger because you never got the girl if you did,” he said. “But I have just taken up ties because its [...]
“It is quite something that he has an emotional journey,” Nighy says. “I almost get a love scene, and for a squid that’s very good.”
Nighy glibly points out he also costarred in last year’s Notes On A Scandal, another against-Davy-Jones-type part. “I got to play a regular person with trousers and shoes in a movie,” [...]
The most interesting part of the interview are clearly his thoughts about writing a book:
“Now I’ve reached an age where people start to ask you that and I have been asked, I don’t know, a dozen times if I’ll write a book. I was actually asked the other day if I would sit down with [...]
Harper’s Bazaar has a nice interview with and even nicer pictures of Bill Nighy in May’s edition.
Here is a Nighy classic from that interview:
“I’m not famous for holiday-making. I don’t really understand it,” he says. “Apparently, it is now compulsory to wear shorts – and yet there are only three people in the world who [...]
Bill will read Dracula!
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