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Capone chats up the incredible Bill Nighy about the UNDERWORLD prequel, VALKYRIE, THE BOAT THAT ROCKED, and More!!

woo hoo by monkey1138	Aug 19th, 2008 11:46:09 PM

4TH by Phategod2	Aug 19th, 2008 11:48:36 PM
take that Bill Nighy
"Peter Cushing and I are similar creatures" by Dasinfogod	Aug 19th, 2008 11:57:03 PM
What?!? Because one played Doctor Who and the other is on tap to play the good Doctor? Just reading between the lines and being silly...
"I has a wonderful time." by Phategod2	Aug 20th, 2008 12:05:38 AM
Did Bill just turn in Mammy from gone with the wind.
I feel it in my fingers... by Horace Cox	Aug 20th, 2008 12:07:15 AM
I feel it in my... toes.
Never a big fan of the Underworld films by nomihs	Aug 20th, 2008 12:44:32 AM
However, Bill Nighy has done some enjoyable stuff. Still won't make me see the film though. After the slight let down of Tropic Thunder, I do need something to pick me back up. Maybe I'll go give some money to TDK again.
Didn't we go through this last time you talked to him? by Chicken Thunder	Aug 20th, 2008 01:08:50 AM
To chat someone up is to try to get into their knickers. Well, did you?
Still think he'd be great as The Doctor by Brody77	Aug 20th, 2008 02:35:42 AM
..him or Sean Pertwee. What are they on about - a scene in pirates 3 without the make up? I don't remember seeing that!
These AICN interviews.... by Zempf	Aug 20th, 2008 02:48:38 AM
...would be SO much more enjoyable and fun to read if they were accompanied by a few photos. Nothing big, fancy og or too fan-boyish. Juuuuust a little something to break the massive flow of text.
Dr Who by krisl	Aug 20th, 2008 02:49:52 AM
At Comic Con and no talk of The Doctor???????
Nighy is one of the best actors alive. by Rev. Slappy	Aug 20th, 2008 03:19:16 AM
They should make a stand alone Billy May movie. I'd see it.
he's a brilliant actor by zapano	Aug 20th, 2008 03:57:11 AM
he's just excellent in everything he does, even Love Actually
Nighy is great... by m_reporter	Aug 20th, 2008 03:57:12 AM
... the only good thing in the 2nd and 3rd POTC films besides Depp. And he was brilliant in Notes on a Scandal and Shaun of the Dead. He was insanely memorable although he had a smallish part.
Oh yeah, Shaun is a real gem by m_reporter	Aug 20th, 2008 04:14:22 AM
"You're not driving that car!" Said by Nighy who's half-dead and laying with his back to the car. The delivery was so great!
The underworld movies are a laugh by Kizeesh	Aug 20th, 2008 04:35:19 AM
Nothing more, nothing less, just some fun shit with vampires and werewolves. Not every movie needs to be shakespeare or star wars. I rather enjoyed them, that said I am a card carrying Roleplayer and have played the Vampire games from White Wolf which a lot of the vampire culture was nicked from.
BN is fantastic by Sparhawk38	Aug 20th, 2008 07:23:21 AM
Great interview. Mr. Nighy makes every movie he is in a better movie. He also seems to be a sincere and humble gentleman who is comfortable in his skin. Great job, Capone.
Any film with Rhona Mitra at the forefront has...ehem... got my by Bill Brasky	Aug 20th, 2008 07:54:18 AM
Platoon, Attention! Present...Arms! Man, anytime that little peice of walking Viagra (Rhona Mitra) is in a picture, there's really no point to a story. I'm still trying to figure out what Doomsday was all about. Well, maybe that's because it was trash* (Or like Harry once wrote, "Sure, I’d fuck it – but I also want to put it in a shallow grave – so I can dig it back up and fuck it later.") Mmmmm. That damn Rhona Mitra.
Nighy is the greatest Britsh Actor of our time. by cookylamoo	Aug 20th, 2008 09:17:05 AM
to waste his talent doing shit movies
you get a real interview with Bill Nighy by ArcadianDS	Aug 20th, 2008 09:35:21 AM
and you dont ask him a single science question. this website sucks. You could have at least brought up static electricity. That stuff is witchcraft, I tell ya.
AICN interviews dont have photos and here's why by ArcadianDS	Aug 20th, 2008 09:36:59 AM
"...and here's another shot of me talking on the phone to a celebrity. I gave a thumbs up this time."
Bill Nighy was nearly the only decent thing in the original Unde by thedarklinglord	Aug 20th, 2008 10:08:27 AM
Bill Nighy and Michael Sheen had to carry that cliched shitfest of a movie, with a little help from Beckinsale's PVC-clad ass. Seriously, the script was ridiculously lame, the dialogue was something you'd expect from a bunch of lonely goth kids playing Vampire: The Masquerade to make themselves feel special and powerful in their make-believe universe, and the line delivery from nearly the entire cast was about the same. Nighy and Sheen alone were watchable, and it's a testament to just how talented those guys are that they were able to do so much when given so little.
And about those photos... by Zempf	Aug 20th, 2008 11:25:38 AM
Well in the case of this interview it would have been VERY awkard, barring on the downright weird, if it had been a photos of BN and Capone on the phone since they WERE in the same room. But of course: I'm only talking about the interviews conducted face-to-face.
Rhona Mitra Underworld Three Desktop by zinc_chameleon	Aug 20th, 2008 11:28:41 AM
is fabulous...she's wielding a broad-sword in one hand, and her poise is perfect. She's got four inches of height, and twenty more pounds of muscle than Kate Beckinsale, and she's way more believable as a female vampire badass. Good luck to this film!
Capone!!!!!! by Seph_J	Aug 20th, 2008 12:14:47 PM
You didn't even ASK about Doctor Who!!!!!!! Unforgiveable.
"rom-zom-com" by rbatty024	Aug 20th, 2008 12:38:58 PM
That was my favorite part of the interview. He's a pretty clever guy.
Love Nighy... but Underworld is wretched beyond belief by Subtlety	Aug 20th, 2008 01:08:39 PM
Couldn't fathom why he would do that. Terrific, classic British actors always seem to end up in the most crass of Hollywood shit (Malcolm McDowell, Peter O'Toole, John Gielgud, etc... actually, all three appear in "Caligula"...). My theory? Its because classy British actors consider the theater to be their real legitimate artform, so any film role is just for the cash. Still, "Underworld" is catastrophically bad, even in the company of most Hollywood genre crap. How do you botch a film about Vampires and Warewolves shooting each other up with high powered weapons? Horrible, terrible writing and acting can only take you so far... after that, it becomes necessary to submerge the film in blue dye for a couple of weeks to really bring out that level of suck that really stands out from the pack. And Underworld 2 is even worse!
Advance word on VALKYRIE by thegreatwhatzit	Aug 20th, 2008 01:43:02 PM
is pretty horrible. An anonymous UA suit admitted that "Tom Cruise plays his Nazi like one of Mel Brooks' caricatures, think HITLER ON ICE. It's been re-cut, re-dubbed and re-scheduled. But nothing can save it."
Gotta love those anonymous suits by palimpsest	Aug 20th, 2008 04:33:45 PM
Though Nighy is all good, all of the time. He'd make a storming Sherlock Holmes.
Nighy... by Bleakseason	Aug 20th, 2008 08:10:26 PM
.... rocks and is one of the few actors who doesn't come across as just plain weird or messed up in an interview. Great guy. The Underworld films all had serious issues (namely that Beckinsale can't act hyer way out of a paper bag, no sense of time progression, many dubious plot elements) but I have found both interesting and fun to watch nonetheless. This one should be better (perhaps), since Nighy and Sheen were my favorite elements of Underworld. And Wiseman destroyed DH for me, so seeing him gone can only be a boon.
Nighy always brings his by Dingbatty	Aug 21st, 2008 02:06:53 AM

Nighy always brings his "A" game by Dingbatty	Aug 21st, 2008 02:09:00 AM
regardless of the material, or genre. It's irritating when actors think speculative or fantastical films don't require the effort.
we need another Underworld film ever few yrs... by j2talk	Aug 21st, 2008 06:46:33 PM

Nill Bighy = Professional. by thebearovingian	Jul 12th, 2009 10:35:28 PM
Legendary.
In the Future... by Orcus	Jul 13th, 2009 07:45:49 AM
There will still be more Underworld crap

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