Finally time for Bill Nighy to win Oscar
"Mr. Williams. A little on the frosty side, perhaps. Not too much fun and laughter. Rather like church."
Bill Nighy plays a British civil servant desperate to change things in "Living."
"Small wonder I didn't notice what I was becoming."
"Dad, are you all right?"
"If only to be alive for one day... but, I realize that I don't know how."
"I grew up in that atmosphere of post-war Britain and I'm fascinated by what they call Englishness, but I'm sure there's characters of that kind in every culture, but we always take the rap for it. A modest but complex system of manners, which everybody was imprisoned by during that period particularly. But I find there's something heroic about it as well," Nighy says
The director had Nighy in mind for the role from start.
"There was this exploration that he and I had to do, to kind of in a way shrink him, because he's Bill Nighy: it was kind of fun for him to play this everyman who has a very little voice and a very small life and, you know, is not necessarily very funny."
