Bill Nighy, who played Davy Jones, described performing in a motion-capture suit as 'a very lonely place to be on a big American film set dressed as an idiot.' His costume was literally 'baggy computer pajamas with white dots all over them' — a far cry from the terrifying, fully-realized CGI sea creature audiences saw. The anecdote exposes the absurd gap between an actor's isolated, silly-looking process and the iconic character that eventually ships on screen.
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