Capt. Jack Sparrow is on the run from Jones who is trying to take his soul in order to repay a debt.

Now, one of the hottest character actors on both sides of the Atlantic, Bill Nighy's genius is an exciting addition to this already talented cast. The IESB was able to talk with Nighy about his experience as Davy Jones, working with Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom, plus we were curious to know just how does Davey Jones kill a man 18 different ways?

IESB: Bill, you are staying extremely busy on some big films here Stateside.

Bill: Yeah, so far so good.

IESB: You are not a stranger to blockbusters, you have become a bit more well-known here in the states. Is that something you always wanted to do or just something that happened?

Bill: It’s something you always hope might happen, because you want to, if you want to be in the movies then you need to work here (in the states) and although I’ve had a good life working in independent British movies and in the theater and on TV at home (UK) the opportunity rather late in life to work in bigger budgeted movies is unlikely and I am very grateful for it. Love Actually kind of made it possible, made me a bit more easier to cast.

IESB: You are not new to the special effects world coming from Underworld, was it quite a drastic change between, the makeup and special effects, between Underworld, playing Viktor and Davy Jones?

Bill: Yeah, it was much much different and much much easier thank God. Underworld, which I enjoyed enormously, and was very pleased to be a part of, I loved everyone involved and it was such a big hit it was so great for first time filmmakers but they did do
terrible things to me. They put me in a prosthetics truck for six hours, and the process was medieval and I had no idea, I was so naïve, never having done any prosthetics before, I thought there was sort of a zip up the back. But in fact, they encase you in latex and it adheres to your body with industrial adhesive, once you’re in there nobody will have lunch with you anymore. It’s kind of a strange experience, where is on this (Pirates) thank God, I just had to have some facial makeup in order to bleed into the character and the rest was sort of mapping dots for the computer guys and therefore I was free to roam.

IESB: So there weren’t any tentacles actually applied to your face?

Bill: That’s all computer generated.

IESB: You’ve gone on record saying Davey Jones can kill you in 18 different ways…

Bill: Well actually that’s an understatement, there is no limit of what he could do to you, if he really wanted to get interested. And if he can’t do it he has friends that really can. Friends who are I’m currently at liberty to describe to you, but trust me you’ve not seen anything like it.

IESB: So what we’ve seen in the trailers…

Bill: There is so much more, so much more. The ship (The Flying Dutchmen) and the gentleman that he does business with, they are seriously spooky. And he has friends you really don’t want to be around. So yeah, his job in the movie is to spread the fear and suffering, and he does it very, very well.

IESB: We know he has the tentacles, he has a crab leg and a crab claw, is that accurate?

Bill: That is correct.

IESB: Do we find out why Davy Jones is like this?

Bill: You do, eventually you do, takes a while but yeah you do. If I told you obviously it would spoil it but there is a very good and very tragic reason why he’s like this. And later, stuff happens, which is quite revealing.

IESB: Are you still working on 3 or are you done?

Bill: No, there’s still some to do on, there’s a bit more to do on 3, we did a lot of 3 during the previous shooting period when we completed 2 but there’s still a little to do which will be done in the summer in Los Angeles.

IESB: The first Pirates was a huge hit, they made a reference to Davy Jones in it, how early on were you approached and asked to come aboard?

Bill: Relatively early on, it was, I can’t really remember now but it was quite early on in the planning, once they had the script, and they had some early drawings which don’t now bear much resemblance to the finished creature but they were still quite extraordinary even then. So, it was quite early on.

IESB: Again, without revealing too much, can we say that the Davy Jones of Pirates 2 is drastically different than the Davy Jones of Pirates 3?

Bill: Da-dum, da-dum…how do I put that? You should be a lawyer or something (laughing) you should be a Barrister.

IESB: Ok we’ll leave that one alone then…

Bill: Yeah, let’s leave that one alone

IESB: Let’s talk about the people you spent the most screen time with.

Bill: I do quite a lot with Johnny, and I do a considerable amount with Orlando. And, quite a lot with Stellan Skarsgard the brilliant Swedish actor who’s in the movie who plays Bootstrap Bill, who is an actor I am sure you are familiar with, it was a great thrill to work with him and I worked with Johnny and Orlando and they were both wonderful and very welcoming because we’re like the new boys, Stellan and myself and Tom Hollander, the young brilliant English actor who plays the other nasty piece of work (Lord Cutler Beckett) the other villain along with me, we’re the new boys and they made us feel very much at home. Working with Johnny was thrilling and lovely, he’s so brilliant in the movie, that character is so, well it’s iconic now, it’s sort of entered the language, it’s one of those few performances that will, I believe, will survive down through the years. Just brilliant and profoundly funny, and witty performance. They were all, young Orlando was a sweet man, very good and staunch colleague, it was a gas, very nice people.

IESB: I know that you are getting ready to work with Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright on Hot Fuzz, are you already doing that, is that happening?

Bill: Already don’t that actually, and it’s a very brief appearance but I was very proud and pleased to be asked back, I so much enjoyed Shaun of the Dead, which was such a gas and I’m a big fan of those boys, I love them, I think their incredibly clever and they’re very funny and they make me laugh all the time. I’m, along with Martin Freeman, who you all know a young comic English actor, brilliant, he’s in “The Office”, he plays Tim, he was also in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and Steve Coogan, we three make a really brief but telling appearance in Hot Fuzz, I’m very happy to do that.

IESB: Bill thank you very much, are we seeing you here at the premiere in LA?

Bill: I am not sure, I hope so. Thank you, God bless you.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest hits theaters July 7th, 2006 with part 3 soon to follow!

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