Bill Nighy is one of those actors who turns out to be memorable in almost every role and every time they appear on screen. His current role as Mr. Williams in the Sony Pictures Classics release Life propelled him to the top of the awards season, including Golden Globe and Critics Choice Awards nominations, and for the first time in a stellar career, a solid and high-profile chance to finish in the Oscar race for Best Actor. it is as for Time!
Nighy participates in this week’s edition of my Deadline video series The actor’s side where we talk about the role in Life the industry has taken seriously since this English-language remake of Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 classic ekiru debuted at Sundance a year ago. In the film, he plays a man who has lived an ordinary life of equality who finds out he has a terminal illness and decides, angrily, to go out and start over. Life For the first time. What makes his performance so remarkable is the way this group of actors just do it live it, whole and complete. Yet it is just one of a string of rich roles over a long blockbuster career, including underworld as Victor, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, as the “invisible” Davy Jones in the Pirates of the Caribbean It steals sequences and scenes as aging rocker Billy Mack love actually. There were also roles that changed Still crazy, Shaun of the Dead and Busy trouble to critically acclaimed dramatic work in films such as Hope Gap, Emma, Girl in the Cafe, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Valkyrie, the latest TV production of The man who fell to earth and countless others.
BOUND TOGETHER: Living star Bill Nighy finds inspiration and humor in his role as a dying man – Contenders LA
He won a Tony nomination for his lead role opposite Carey Mulligan skylight, it was just a drop in the bucket of his stage work. In other words, he’s done it all and is here to talk about it. Click the link above to watch our conversation.
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Author: Peter Hammond
Source: Deadline
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