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Who's who in the Dead Man's Chest

July 19, 2006
Davy Jones: Bill Nighy

Now, as everyone who knows his Captain Haddock would testify, Davy Jones' Locker is the name for the watery grave drowned sailors head to. Davy Jones himself is a mythic 'sea devil,' often referred to but hardly identified as a character. Enter the Dead Man's Chest, where the inevitably hilarious Bill Nighy plays Davy, the main villain, in search of Jack's soul. A mutated man-octopus, he sports a wriggling beard of tentacles, reminiscent of the Cthulhu character from the stories of HP Lovecraft.

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