Saturday, November 11, 2006
Let's be wicked ...
... and jump the pub date on the New York Times with this piece about actor Bill Nighy (whose splendid reading of Cavafy poems we linked to here last summer - unfortunately no longer available, it seems): A Veteran Actor’s New Role: ‘Thinking Woman’s Crumpet’ . (Hat tip, Susan Balée.)
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Thank you, Frank. I try to promote Mr. Nighy every chance I get because he's an unbelievably good actor, yet hardly known on this side of the Atlantic. I'll be seeing "The Vertical Hour" for the first time this coming Tues. (I'm seeing it several times, thanks to my own purchases and press tix for the article I'm writing on David Hare). I believe it's going to be a wonderful play.
ReplyDeleteKinda hard to miss with Sir David, Bill, Julianne Moore, and Sam Mendes directing.
I second that. Whenever he turns up in a film, he just sparkles, even if it's just a small character piece, as in "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
ReplyDeleteAnd he absolutely stole "Underworld." That's one of those films that I had low expectations of, thinking it might be a cult film someday, but it was so well crafted, and so well acted, that it found a place on my list of favorites. And Mr. Nighy is incredible in it.