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.

LIONSGATE

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…