Bill Nighy, starring in the Oscar-buzzing 'Living,' will be happy to strike up a conversation with you if you spot him on the streets of London. Fans regularly quote 'Love Actually' lines to him.
, and has undeniably gifted Nighy one of the best roles of his career. The actor, 73, plays a stoic English businessman named Mr. Williams, whose government job is to enable so much bureaucracy that nothing gets done. When Mr. Williams learns he is dying, uncomfortable self-reflection leads to newfound boldness., “Living” was compelling because of who was involved and, simply, because it was a great role.
“Living” was filmed primarily in London in summer 2021, and it was the first thing Nighy shot after a year of pandemic closures. He had holed up in Suffolk, where he mostly watched TV or sat under trees and read .The actor was genuinely moved by the experience of being back on a film set, especially in his home base of London. He doesn’t feel, however, that he did anything particularly different on “Living.
Although Nighy claims he doesn’t need to feel empathy for his characters, or even to like them, his costars observed just how much he understood Mr. Williams., who plays a coworker whom Mr. Williams befriends, was constantly amazed by Nighy’s work on set.
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