The newly Oscar-nominated 'Living' actor is taking his time enjoying a world that includes him in it.
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You might say the same thing about the acting of Bill Nighy. Take “Living,” for example, the role that just earned the 73-year-old actor his first Oscar nomination. Set in 1953 London, Nighy plays Mr. Williams, an English gentleman, a bureaucrat, who has settled into a life of routine following the death of his wife. After he receives a terminal diagnosis, he practices breaking the news to his son in front of a mirror.
“Living,” a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s “Ikiru,” could have been maudlin and dreadful in the wrong hands. Writer Kazuo Ishiguro notes that Nighy’s casting gave him the ability to make Mr. Williams a bit more “frosty,” banking on moviegoers’ affection for the actor. “In England, he’s a national treasure,” Ishiguro says. Costume designer Sandy Powell thought of Nighy after reading the script, not knowing he had already been cast. “We’re used to seeing him more twinkly, aren’t we?” she says.
Nighy tells me that since “Living” premiered, people mostly want to talk to him about two things — mortality and procrastination. On the first, employing his soft-spoken dry wit, he says he doesn’t worry about death. He just doesn’t want to be around when it happens.“I’ve never felt any pressure to leave a legacy of any kind,” Nighy says. “I find it difficult to have an enthusiasm for a world that doesn’t include me.” Still, he can’t help but look at the clock.
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