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Bill Nighy as Bill Mack in Love Actually

If you thought, Notting Hill, Four Weddings and a Funeral

and Bridget Jones' Diary was a load of sentimental rubbish,

You're not going to like this...

(Richard Curtis' favorised idea for the film poster)

If a bomb would have dropped on the building

British show business would have been

in serious trouble.

(Bill Nighy about the first cast reading)

The stars lost for British show business would have been:

Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson, Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson, Colin Firth, Keira Knightley, Rowan Atkinson,

along with Andrew Lincoln, Thomas Sangster, Gregor Fisher (you may remember as Baldy Man), Laura Linney, Rodrigo Santoro, and German Frauleinwunder Heike Makatsch.

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The Sutton Guardian reviewed Love Actually and found some nice words about Bill Nighy. Read it here.

Awards:

· 2004 London Film Critics Award as best supporting actor - report

· 2004 Evening Standard Peter Sellers Award for best comedy performance

· 2004 LA Critics Circle Award as best supporting actor

· 2004 BAFTA as best supporting actor

· Nomination for 2003 golden Satellite Award as best supporting actor in a comedy

· Nomination for 2003 Broadcast Film Critics Chice for best ensemble cast

An excerpt from Bill's acceptance speech at the London Film Critics Award:

''With comedy, it's not a dispute. It's either funny or it's not funny and I guess this award means it was funny.''

LOVE QUESTIONNAIRE

Bill Nighy

Who was the first person you ever loved - and how old were they and you?

Riff the dog - I was nine and the dog was about six weeks

What is your best ever Christmas present?

A short story from my daughter.

I love actually all around?

Yeah yeah yeah

Some facts and statement without support about Billy Mack:

Bill's not telling too much about Billy Mack's "influences" but once mentioned names like Gary Glitter and Elvis Costello in an interview, referring to this. Others saw optical relations to Rod Stewart. (?)

Billy Mack's name was supposed to be "Billy Manne" (Man? Mann?) first. Both, Bill and Gregor Fisher are calling the character "Manne" in interviews.

One can assume that Billy Mack once was more on the hardrocking side. The half Billy / half skull poster hanging in Joe's flat reminds a little to the image of Alice Cooper in the "Trash" era.

According to some props Billy Mack's label was Polymer Records. So he was a label mate with another famous fake band: Spinal Tap

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