Bill Nighy on the Oscar Buzz Surrounding ‘Living’: ‘I Don’t Get Out Much’
26.09.2022 - 17:03
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Brent Lang Executive Editor For Bill Nighy, the road to a character’s heart runs through his tailor. “The clothes govern how you move, how you think and how you feel,” he says. In the case of “Living,” the story of Mr. Williams, a bureaucrat in 1953 London grappling with a fatal illness, the meant donning a bespoke pin-striped suit. But he struggled with the wide shoulders that were the fashion of that era. “I didn’t think I had the frame to pull it off,” Nighy says. And there was one feature that was particularly burdensome. “I had to wear a bowler hat, and they are absolutely bizarre,” muses Nighy. “How they caught on, I’ll never know. If a brick fell on your head from a very great height, you’d be fine. If you fell off a horse or a motorbike, you’d emerge unscathed. You could go to war with that hat on and be well protected.”
At one point in the film, Mr. Williams is separated from his trusty bowler, and Nighy was incredibly relieved. But all the sartorial suffering he had to do for his art appears to have paid off. Nighy has received some of the best reviews of his career for “Living,” which debuted at Sundance and sold to Sony Pictures Classics. The indie studio is mounting an Oscar campaign for “Living,” one that has taken the movie and its star to the Venice and Toronto film festivals before it opens in theaters in December. So is the Academy Award buzz getting to Nighy’s head? “I don’t get out much, so I really haven’t heard anything about it,” Nighy says. “I’m not being cute, I assure you. If the film were honored in that way, it would be absolutely marvelous. I want people to watch it. If the Academy were to decide to nominate us in any way, it would be an enormous thing for us.” Nighy first found out about
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