PotC2 Interview with Bill Nighy
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パイレーツ・オブ・カリビアン デッドマンズ・チェストで イカ怪人を演じる羽目になった 英国個性派俳優 ビル・ナイのインタビュー。
素顔はとっても知的なオジさま。パート３にも出演するそうです。
「時代劇衣装のキャストの中で、特撮のために一人ディーヴォ・・・というよりディーボの父親みたいだった」というナイさん。
ひょっとして若い人は知らないかもしれませんが、こんな人たちです、ディーヴォ（しかも現役）。
Wed, July 12, 2006Life is beautiful
He might play an ugly pirate monster but ... for veteran British actor Bill NighyBy BRUCE KIRKLAND, TORONTO SUN
Since his role in 2003’s Love Actually, long-time character actor Bill Nighy has been dancing all the way to the bank.
LOS ANGELES -- Is Davy Jones real, or imagined?
Jones, the mythical pirate of Davy Jones' Locker infamy, is one of the primary characters in the Pirates Of The Caribbean sequel, Dead Man's Chest.
Given the staggering $132 million U.S. that the movie generated in its opening weekend in North America, we hazard a guess you already witnessed this dastardly villain in action. Truncated octopus tentacles hang from his face, writhing like Medusa's head of snakes. His piercing eyes flash pure evil. His tongue lashes out sarcastic bons mots. A giant pet sea monster is at his beck and call. Not a nice fellow.
Yet Jones vaguely reminds astute viewers of Bill Nighy, the veteran English character actor who vaulted to international fame just three years ago, in Love Actually. With that cachet, he went on to roles in Underworld and its sequel, Underworld: Evolution, as well as Shaun Of The Dead, The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, The Constant Gardener and now Dead Man's Chest.
Charming bloke, that Bill. But the 57-year-old, Surrey-born veteran of British stage and TV really does play nasty Jones. Through the magic of motion capture and digital special effects, Nighy created his monster in the same manner as Andy Serkis did Gollum for The Lord Of The Rings.
"I've never engaged in anything like this before," Nighy says, "and I didn't know what the process was. How that was going to look or sound, I had no way of knowing."
Pirates director Gore Verbinski assured Nighy that he would be able to see himself in Davy Jones, even after the computer-effects artists got through with him.
"And it's satisfying," Nighy says of the results. "It is informed by what (I did), it is kind of what I meant."
Not that he expected it, especially considering how goofy he felt on set in the Grand Bahamas in his motion-capture suit with its electric impulse dots for computer tracking.
"When you are wearing silly gray pyjamas with white bubbles all over, and a skull cap, particularly when you're standing next to Johnny Depp or Orlando Bloom, it is hard to project. And you have to keep remembering that you have a live octopus growing out of your chin -- obviously different. So it's not like any other gig."
The first day on set was the worst, he allows. "I walk into the biggest film set I've ever personally been involved in in my life. Everyone else is dressed real cool as pirates. And they all look really, really good -- and I look like a sad old reject from Devo. I look like Devo's dad. And those trousers takes some wearing, let me tell you.
"So that particular day, yeah, 'Am I insane? I could be wearing a nice Armani suit and saying something clever in some other movie!' It's a long way from Love Actually, although I wore some pretty silly trousers in that, as well."
In the end, the means in Dead Man's Chest were justified, Nighy says. "It's refreshing and reassuring that people who aren't that familiar -- general members of the audiences who have seen it -- say: 'That's Bill Nighy!' I didn't imagine that was going to be the case."
Nighy would have signed on anyway, he admits. "I was happy to do the job, which was to try and inspire this creature. I took the job because I dug the script so much. These writers are very, very clever and I loved the first movie. The first movie is kind of beloved now by people. It really has entered the language. So I was keen.
"And I am a bit of a sucker for pirates, in the same way I am for vampires. I played a vampire recently (in the Underworld flicks). I dig vampires. I just do. And I like pirates."
Expect to see more of Nighy -- or his computerized alter ego -- in the third Pirates movie, At World's End, next May. "If I tell you that I'm in part three, I think they'll fire me," Nighy teases, referring to the cone of silence around the plot of the third movie. "But, yeah, I'm in part three."
That means Davy Jones figures heavily in the plot. But tipping that off is unlikely to leave Nighy on the unemployment lines. He is just too popular and too busy.
Since Love Actually, his career has boomed: "It's made me much more useful. It's made me castable in a way I was not before. And it gives me a range of work."
So life is good.
"It's very, very sweet," the bookish yet sly and witty Nighy says, "and I'm extremely grateful and I can't really get over it.
