Are you insane? If you meant to destroy us, why not do it with an adult? That's the convention.Richard Hart in Notes on a Scandal
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Bill Nighy talks
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 [...]
Videointerview with Julianne Moore with a little bit of Bill
CBS Early Show : Interview with Julianne Moore.
Great to see Julianne defending Bill Nighy when the interviewer again tries to define Bill as the guy with the Octopus face in Pirates. She does a good job there, he is much more than that.
More Nighy and the Vertical Hour
Nighy is physically curious as he thrusts his hands in his pockets, slinks his lean frame into Ann Roth’s costumes or shuffles around Scott Pask’s verdant set, which Brian MacDevitt illuminates with clever stealth.
New York Press
And more and more rumours and hopes that The Vertical Hour will transfer from Broadway to London.
Bill Nighy Q&A on broadway.com
Do you like the character?
Yeah. I do. I mean, I hate to talk about characters as if they exist, because it’s only me playing them [laughs]. I’ve never been “in character” in my life. You go to work, and you have to pretend.
Read the interview on Broadway.com
Hear Bill Nighy in the Vertical Hour
The NY times has 2 minutes of Billiciousness from the Vertical Hour, accompanied by pictures from the play.
Speakers on and go for it.
The Vertical Hour reviews - “He is, of course, wonderful”
Bill Nighy in the Vertical Hour
After the official opening yesterday, the first reviews of The Vertical Hour are showing up. While the play itself gets mixed reviews, Bill Nighy gets raved in nearly all of them. (Click the links for the full reviews)
(This post will be updated when new reviews come in - last updated [...]
Timeout NY : A Brit on the side
Timeout NY has a nice article/interview with Bill Nighy about The Vertical Hour.
“Though Nighy admits to some disappointment that the American Beauty director doesn’t cover his actors in rose petals during rehearsals, he can’t laud the creative team enough. He admits it took him several weeks to get used to being in the same room [...]
DM : Bill enjoying first bite of the Big Apple
Another article about Bill Nighy and The Vertical Hour in the Daily Mail:
“The play has arrived at a time of momentous political and social change over here with regards to Iraq. It was fascinating for me to observe the (mainly) American audience having to confront what their President had got them into.
As Bill noted, Iraq [...]
David Hare about The Vertical Hour
NY Post - an interview with David Hare
Playbill interview with David Hare
And according to contactmusic.com Bill seems to like New York in the fall:
The PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN star was skeptical when friends boasted of the delights of Manhattan, but since his arrival to star in DAVID HARE play THE VERTICAL HOUR, he’s convinced. Nighy [...]
Can Bill Nighy take Manhattan?
OK, the real title of this delicious article in the Observer is really Can David Hare take Manhattan?
It’s a mixed article with interviews with Sam Mendes, David Hare and Bill Nighy.
Downstairs, Nighy is holding sardonic court on his new carpet in a dressing room about four times the size of Scott’s. ‘Do you like the [...]
NY Times : Bill Nighy is one undeniably cool character
“IMMACULATELY elegant, impeccably mannered and not a little groovy, Bill Nighy is one undeniably cool character.” Nice opening of an article in the New York times, about Bill Nighy and The Vertical Hour.
Here are some highlights:
David Hare about Bill:
“Once you have in him in your sights, it’s hard to forget him.”
“He’s the man who is [...]
Ticketsales The Vertical Hour has started
If you want to see Bill Nighy making his debut on Broadway in the Vertical Hour, and why would you not, now is the time to take action.
Online ticketsales has started today.
You don’t want to miss this …
Bill Nighy and The Vertical Hour - a kind of Englishman
Finally some more information about The Vertical Hour, starring Bill Nighy and Julianne Moore, and Andrew Scott. This play, written by David Hare, and directed by Sam Mendes will be performed on Broadway in New York from the end of November.
The Vertical Hour centers on Nadia Blye, a young American war correspondent turned academic [...]
Interview with Bill Nighy - returning to stage - in New York
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 [...]
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