**The _Living_ legend is living his best life. Will he take home the gold?**

**The role of Mr Williams in _Living_ was written for you. How do you feel about that?**

It feels really, really good. When the Nobel prize laureate \[Kazuo Ishiguro\] who you happen to meet at dinner says, “I’m going to write this film for you”… Presumably I was very good in a previous life.

Bill-Nighy

**It’s very much a film about English restraint…**

I think that constraint people put upon themselves is interesting. It seems as a species we invent more and more elaborate ways to ensure that nobody is having a good time. Be it through religion or politics, we have to suffer in some way...

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