Bill Nighy - 'I've waited a long time to play a Goose!' Report by Mccallumj. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Hi, Phil. It's lovely to see you again. How are you doing?
00:04Nice to see you. I'm good, thank you.
00:05It's nice to see you. Listen, you're really busy at the minute. You're in everything.
00:09Am I? Well, it just looks like that.
00:12It's one of those ones you film them and then they're all coming out at the one time, right?
00:15It's a bit like that.
00:16Tell me about playing Longneck in this. Was it a joy to be a part of this? Because I just love animated movies.
00:22Well, I could tell right from the start because the drawings were so fabulous and it's kind of different.
00:28The background is sort of impressionistic. It's just a different kind of cartoon.
00:32But they were serious people and the script was great.
00:36I've waited quite a long time to be a goose because I've played rabbits and I've been all kinds of other things.
00:43But a goose was kind of satisfying and it turned out so well.
00:48I haven't seen the movie yet but everybody seems to think it's pretty good.
00:52It's beautiful. There's something about animated movies that makes me emotional though.
00:56Do you think it's because it taps into our inner child?
00:58I don't know. I see quite a few because I have grandchildren.
01:02So, you know, I'm a Despicable 4 fan and I'm an Inside Out 2, I saw recently.
01:11So, you know, I'm up to speed with all that.
01:13In playing a goose, how much time did you spend with geese? Did you go quite method on it?
01:17I spent a lot of time with geese. You can imagine.
01:20I went to small islands off the coast of wherever and I lived there for a while.
01:24And I grew to feel that I was part of the goose nation.
01:27And this is why you're one of the best in the world, Bill. It's so lovely to see you again.
01:31You've got to put in the hours.
01:32Exactly. Lovely to see you again. Always a gentleman. Thank you so much.