Hiya kids. Here is an important message from your Uncle Bill. Don't buy drugs. Become a pop star, and they give you them for free.Bill Nighy - Alan Blunt, Stormbreaker - “We want you to work for us”
MI6 is represented, inevitably, by Bill Nighy whose faintly bizarre tics and swallowed syllables are just right for an uptight M figure.
The Guardian
Bill Nighy is a camp and deadpan joy as the careless boss of the Secret Service, Mr Blunt. He wears [...]
Comingsoon.net has an interview with Visual Effect man John Knoll. In the interview there are several pictures of how they transferred a living computer pyjama wearing Bill Nighy into the CGI creature Davy Jones.
Very interesting read, and Bill Nighy doesn’t need to worry, he looks cool in whatever he wears.
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The official premiere of Stormbreaker was held yesterday in the Vue cinema, Leicester Square, London. And they were all there, Alex Pettyfer, Alicia Silverstone, Ewan McGregor, Sophie Okonedo and of course Bill Nighy, who only one week ago went into the Odeon for the official premiere of Pirates of the Carribean.
Empire magazine has an article [...]
Bill Nighy - Alan Blunt, Stormbreaker
The Stormbreaker website has 3 different trailers online, and Bill Nighy / Alan Blunt is in all of them.
Bill Nighy is also pictured on the official movie poster, and if you live in the UK, you can even spot him on the busses in London, these days.
“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 is visiting Steve Wright in the Big Show today on BBC radio 2. The program will be broadcasted from 2pm-5pm on the radio.
Don’t worry if you missed it, or if you live outside the UK, you have a chance to listen again via internetradio until next Wednesday.
Don’t miss it !
10 pictures of Bill Nighy at the European premiere of Pirates of the Carribean in London
Podcast video with a short interview with Bill Nighy talking about his beloved and funky computer pyjamas at the Sun’s website.
More pictures from the Premiere with one picture of Bill Nighy and some pictures at Wired.
Pirates Premiere at BBC [...]
“This is Davy Jones - of locker fame - and if that sounds like a cliché too far even for a camp pirate flick, Jones, played by Bill Nighy, and his crew are to this film what Depp was to its predecessor. They’re like a bad acid trip at the sealife centre. They sail in [...]
To achieve this ghastly image, which was created with the help of computer graphics, Nighy had to perform wearing cumbersome grey overalls with light-emitting diodes, so the machine could trace his movements for later adornment. It was nothing like the cool pirate clothes that stars Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom wear, and it was also [...]
The first reviews for Pirates of the Carribean and Davy Jones are coming in, and Bill Nighy gets some Big Words from the Rolling Stone.
“And what works most devilishly is Davy Jones (Bill Nighy), the squid-faced captain of the Flying Dutchman who bargains for the souls of those he captures. Davy and his crew of [...]
Darkhorizons.com has another excellent interview with Bill Nighy about his role in the Pirates of the Carribean - Dead Man’s Chest. He talks about the ships, and a lot of other interesting things in a very Nighy way.
“Question: Did you discover the inner pirate in you when you embarked on it?
Nighy: There is a touch [...]
The US already got their official premiere of Pirates of The Carribean : Dead Man’s Chest last sunday. This all happened at a huge event in Disneyland, where both the film had it’s premiere but also the relaunch of Disneyland’s ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ Attraction. This popular attraction has had a make over, and is [...]
Bill Nighy is not only half crab, half squid and all charm (as Davy Jones that is), he is also a hot item at the moment. This results in loads of interviews and attention, the latest one being a long interview in the Telegraph.
Meanwhile, in two weeks, he can be seen with Johnny Depp [...]
Bill Nighy has been a celebrity ambassador for the National Society for Epilepsy (NSE) for a couple of years now. He actually started with that after working on The Lost Prince (which is about a boy having epilepsy).
The National Society for Epilepsy (NSE) is organizing a raffle to raise money. And the price being the [...]