‘Living’: Bill Nighy Embraces Opportunity To Play “A Quiet, Decent Man” In Oliver Hermanus’ Adaptation Of Kurosawa Classic ‘Ikiru’ – Sundance Studio
, putting his own stamp on the 1952 classic.
The project emerged from a script by Kazuo Ishiguro, the Nobel Prize winning novelist and screenwriter behind such titles as. Its story centers on Mr. Williams , a veteran civil servant, who finds himself an impotent cog within London’s bureaucracy as the city struggles to rebuild following World War II. Buried under paperwork at the office and lonely at home, his life has long felt empty and meaningless.
One of Hermanus’ big challenges in making the film had to do with the fact that it was the first he looked to bring to life outside of his home country of South Africa. “I was also immersing myself in a world, which was very, very period, so from a creative point of view, this was quite a big bite for me,” said the director. “But I think that I loved it and it was wonderful, and I sort of thrived in being out of my comfort zone in basically every way.
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