Before he created a lead role in Living specifically for Bill Nighy, the film’s screen-writer had mostly written novels. They’d done quite well … in a Booker and Nobel Prize for literature kind of way. Oh, and Nighy ranks him, too.
“You know what? He’s not bad,” the actor and bookworm answers with a wheezy chuckle down the line from London after the Listener asks his thoughts about the man who created the role that has led to Nighy’s first Oscar nomination.
The writer? Sir Kazuo Ishiguro, author of, among many other things, the Booker-winning The Remains of the Day, which became a classic British period film.
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