Kazuo Ishiguro how a “eureka moment” in the back of a London taxi resulted in Oscar nominations.
The author of books including Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go adapted Akira Kurosawa’s Japanese film Ikiru into a London-set drama titled Living, which was released in 2022.
Ishiguro wrote the script, which has been nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay at this year’s Oscars, which take place on Sunday (12 March).
The film follows a bureaucrat who is diagosed with terminal cancer, and is spurred on to finally embrace life after dedicating his life to his work.
For Living to succeed, he required an actor who was up to the task of playing the lead role – and he found that person in Bill Nighy.
He revealed that, one night, while in a taxi with Nighy, he had a brainwave – what if the Love, Actually star should play the role?
The...
The author of books including Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go adapted Akira Kurosawa’s Japanese film Ikiru into a London-set drama titled Living, which was released in 2022.
Ishiguro wrote the script, which has been nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay at this year’s Oscars, which take place on Sunday (12 March).
The film follows a bureaucrat who is diagosed with terminal cancer, and is spurred on to finally embrace life after dedicating his life to his work.
For Living to succeed, he required an actor who was up to the task of playing the lead role – and he found that person in Bill Nighy.
He revealed that, one night, while in a taxi with Nighy, he had a brainwave – what if the Love, Actually star should play the role?
The...
- 3/9/2023
- by Jacob Stolworthy
- The Independent - Film
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