Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest was dubbed "Bouillabaisse" on set. Captain Davy Jones had originally been designed with chin growths, before the designers made the move to full-blown tentacles; the skin of the character incorporates the texture of a coffee-stained Styrofoam cup among other elements. To portray Jones on set, Bill Nighy wore a motion capture tracksuit that meant the animators at Industrial Light & Magic did not have to reshoot the scene in the studio without him or on the motion capture stage. Nighy wore make-up around his eyes and mouth to splice into the computer-generated shots, but the images of his eyes and
Bill Nighy in 1997 as Tom Sergeant, a restaurant entrepreneur, in David Hare's "Skylight", which had premiered in 1995 and was moved to the Vaudeville Theatre. Nighy received some recognition by American audiences for his acclaimed portrayal of overaged rock star Ray Simms in the 1998 film "Still Crazy". In 1999 he gained further prominence in the UK with the starring role in "The Photographer", an episode of the award-winning BBC-TV mockumentary comedy series "People Like Us", playing Will Rushmore, a middle aged man who has abandoned his career and family in the deluded belief that he can achieve success as a