Bill Nighy: 'Jack the Giant Killer was cool experience'
The Love Actually star revealed that he enjoyed his experience shooting the modern day fairytale.
"In Jack the Giant Killer, I am the giant," Nighy told Collider. "I'm 22 feet tall and I eat people. It was very good fun."
He continued: "There are a bunch of very, very good English actors in it. Ewan McGregor is in it, Nicholas Hoult is playing Jack, and Stanley Tucci plays the troublesome Roderick. He's a brilliant man. It was a very nice experience, although it was quite difficult to keep a straight face.
"Obviously, it's motion capture, so you wore a black vinyl jumpsuit with a zip up the front and trainers, which I'm never quite relaxed in, and a helmet with cameras attached that come down to your chin and basically shoot up your nose," he explained.
"It's not a good look. But, after the first couple of days, they run out of jokes," Nighy said. "You just have to not look at the other giants because otherwise you'd laugh. But, it was a very cool experience."
Nighy recently revealed that he is unable to read reviews of his films because he takes the criticism too personally.
The nascent genre of revisionist fairy tales was dealt a blow today when two of its high-profile upcoming releases, Jack the Giant Killer and Arthur & Lancelot, both of which are in development at Warner Bros., were hit with major delays, THR reports. Bryan Singer's fantasy epic Jack the Giant Killer, starring Ewan McGregor, saw its release date moved from June 15 of this year to March 22, 2013 -- a whopping nine-month shift.
