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  1. Dec 24, 2022 · BILL NIGHY: My pleasure. SIMON: Tell us about this man you play - Mr. Williams. He's a polite, circumspect bureaucrat in the public works department in post-war London - neat piles of files around ...

  2. Mar 2, 2023 · March 2, 2023 1:30pm. Nighy as the bureaucrat Mr. Williams in Sony Pictures Classics’ 'Living,' for which he earned his first Oscar nom for best actor. Courtesy of Ross Ferguson/Number 9 films ...

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  4. Jan 12, 2023 · The British actor Bill Nighy was trying to describe how he prepared for his character in the new drama “Living.” He plays Mr. Williams, a buttoned-up, almost catatonically reticent bureaucrat ...

  5. Dec 21, 2022 · Isaac Feldberg December 21, 2022. Tweet. In “Living,” Bill Nighy delivers a performance that ranks among the finest in his 50-year career on stage and screen. As Mr. Williams, a dedicated civil servant in 1950s London, the beloved British actor conveys a level of emotional repression and socially ingrained stoicism that long ago calcified ...

  6. Living review: Bill Nighy delivers an almost startling transformation in this beautiful period drama. ... Nighy’s bureaucrat, Mr Williams, is dying of stomach cancer. He’s spent the majority ...

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  7. Jan 12, 2023 · Bill Nighy reflects on Living, ... in Living, Nighy is called on to play a shell of a man who’s shrunk himself into the kind of bureaucrat one of his co-workers dubs “Mr. Zombie.” All but ...

  8. Feb 12, 2023 · A remake of Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 film Ikiru and adapted by Nobel Prize-winning novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, Living stars Bill Nighy as an English bureaucrat named Williams living in 1950s London who discovers he only has months to live. “It was written for Bill,” says Hermanus. “Ishiguro had the brainwave at a dinner party: somebody should ...