Bill Nighy as Oliver Lucas in The Vertical Hour
Bill Nighy has won a Theatre World Award for his performance as Oliver Lucas in David Hare’s The Vertical Hour.
The Theatre World Award is the oldest award given for a theatre performance On or Off-Broadway, and it is only given once as it is given for a [...]
Courttv has a nice interview with Bill Nighy, about Notes on a Scandal, The Vertical Hour, New York, and about the possibility of playing a rocker again (which is definitely not denied by Bill).
Here is Bill about The Thing in New York and London:
I like the fact that that you’re allowed to say [...]
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 [...]
Bill Nighy and Cate Blanchett in Notes on a Scandal
Comingsoon.net has an interview with the scandalously talented Bill Nighy about Notes on a Scandal, Pirates and The Vertical Hour.
I’m the only guy [wearing this] and then they show you this picture of this incredibly fantastic, the most dangerous and terrifying thing on the ocean waves, [...]
(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.
Filmstew has an article/interview with Bill Nighy about The Vertical Hour and Notes on a Scandal.
“We’re open now, it’s a hit [and] we’ve sold out, thank God,” says Vertical Hour co-star Nighy during a recent interview with FilmStew. “There is a God. I wasn’t quite sure before now, but I know. I got through it [...]
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 [...]
An interview with Bill Nighy about The Vertical Hour, but also about Bill the actor.
Read the whole article The Time is Nighy
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.
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.
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
The NY times has 2 minutes of Billiciousness from the Vertical Hour, accompanied by pictures from the play.
Speakers on and go for it.
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 [...]
Bill Nighy and Andrew Scott
Broadway.com has some beautiful images from The Vertical Hour. Bill Nighy looks fantastic, and so does the stage.
Check them out here.