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 "The Sunday Times" reported that Nighy was on the shortlist for the role of the Ninth Doctor in the 2005 revival of the BBC television series "Doctor Who". Christopher Eccleston ultimately filled the role. In 2005, he appeared as Slartibartfast in the film adaptation of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". He also appeared in the one-off BBC One comedy-drama "The Girl in the Café". In February 2006, he appeared in scriptwriter Stephen Poliakoff's one-off drama, "Gideon's Daughter". Nighy played the lead character, Gideon, a successful events organiser who begins to lose touch with the world around him. This performance