Aimee Lou Wood on Working With Bill Nighy in Sundance Drama ‘Living’ and What’s Next for ‘Sex Education’

At the point when Aimee Lou Wood would let individuals know that she was featuring in "Living," a reconsidering of Akira Kurosawa's exemplary story of an at death's door administrator's mission for significance, the reaction she got scared her.

 "Everybody I talked would let me know it was their cherished film ever or the most lovely film ever," she says. "It was a great deal of strain."

"Everybody I talked would let me know it was their cherished film ever or the most lovely film ever," she says. "It was a great deal of strain."

In any case, subsequent to watching the first, she became persuaded that "Living," which moves the setting from Japan to 1950s Great Britain, had utilized the components of Kurosawa's story that made it so strong, however gave a new viewpoint that is remarkably its own. It likewise helped that the film gave Wood, most popular for her work as the well known and enormous hearted young person Aimee Gibbs on Netflix's "Sex Education," an opportunity to work close by one of her acting symbols, Bill Nighy. The two play Mr. Williams, a genuinely inactive government functionary, and Margaret, a lively subordinate whose vitality and desire rouses her supervisor to have an effect in his last days. "Living" debuts Friday at the Sundance Film Festival, a festival of independent movie that will go virtual for the second year straight because of omicron.

"I was in somewhat of a state of mind for some time, since I was so anticipating going," Wood says. "I'd never been to a film celebration, yet following a few days of feeling emptied, I dealt with it. I'm so thankful we got to do the image in any case."

"I was in somewhat of a state of mind for some time, since I was so anticipating going," Wood says. "I'd never been to a film celebration, yet following a few days of feeling emptied, I dealt with it. I'm so thankful we got to do the image in any case."

Ahead of the film's presentation, Wood addressed Variety about making "Living" during COVID and what's next for "Sex Education."

How could you engage with "Living"?

I was in lockdown, and I read the content. It moved me to such an extent. I thought that it is so excellent. It came to me at the ideal second. At the point when I read it, it lined up with where I was at inwardly. At the point when I did oneself tape, I truly appreciated being Margaret. She was a particularly splendid person. I was frantic to get the part since they don't come around that regularly. There aren't that numerous jobs you genuinely experience passionate feelings for. At the point when I read the content I was feeling a piece dull or muffled, however this story is tied in with seeing the excellence and the remarkable in the conventional and being thankful and present and liking the little things and the associations we have with individuals.

Lockdown made a many individuals rethink their life decisions. Did the story impact you diversely in light of the fact that you were in the pandemic in semi-confinement?

I figure it did. In any event, when we were recording, it was testing since you were dependably apprehensive you'd get closed down, so you were attempting to be at the time however much as could reasonably be expected. You simply don't know for 100 percent certain it will adhere and it will endure. My appreciation levels were extremely high.

What intrigued you about Margaret as a person?

Since I moved on from dramatization school there's been a subject to the parts that I've played. They're all extremely benevolent, and they're all exceptionally kind. We say being benevolent is a truly beneficial thing, yet looking at this logically you're saying self-less, as without a self. You're putting every other person before you. What I love about Margaret is she has that thoughtfulness and warmth and receptiveness, however she additionally needs things for her self. She's sort of self-assured and she's a truly fair individual, yet she's not only an accommodating person.

For what reason would you say you are offered such countless caring characters?

It's a commendation, I assume. It's an energy I give out. I didn't believe that would be the sort of jobs I would get. Doing "Sex Education," my personality Aimee is really entertaining and very senseless, however at her center, she's wildly faithful and kind. Having an impact like that entered individuals' mind, so they accept that I'm that individual.

Aimee Lou Wood and Bill Nighy in "Living," which debuts at Sundance.

How was it to function with Bill Nighy?

I'm fixated on Bill. I've honestly loved his work. Whenever I first met him, I had a second where he was talking and I thought, "How am I going to act with him? I'm simply going to be so apprehensive." But he is the loveliest man. We had a few meals and heaps of talks and snacks together on set. It's significant the entertainers playing those parts have a simple association, and we had a similar sort of unadulterated association. It made those scenes truly bubbly. We had these long takes and he has this truly significant speech, and it felt so genuine. It was not difficult to be at the time. I felt so fortunate to gain from him.

What did you gain from him?

He generally knows without question, everybody's names on set. He associates with everyone. His liberality is wonderful and that comes through as an entertainer. He truly tunes in, and he's not too far off with you in the scenes.

"Sex Education" is such a peculiarity on the two sides of the Atlantic. For what reason do you think individuals react to it so unequivocally in the U.K. furthermore the U.S.?

Everybody has somebody who they connect with in the story. At the point when you watch "Sex Ed," it resembles being with your companions. They're these imperfect, human individuals. They're not optimistic. A great deal of these youngster shows, individuals in them are so cool and they're similar to take care of business. What's more I wasn't a thing like that when I was that age, so that makes "Sex Ed" so reviving. It praises the ponderousness of that time. That is a truly tough time, so it's honest.

The last period of "Sex Education" finished on a cliffhanger with Moordale Secondary School auctions off to designers. Considering that huge change, what can individuals anticipate in Season 4?



I don't know essentially anything about Season 4. Our school is gone, so I'm befuddled with regards to what's going on there. I know a couple of seemingly insignificant details about my personality, however I truly don't know a lot. I trust they will keep on prospering on the grounds that I felt like they were experiencing childhood in Season 3. It will be intriguing to see them outside of the school more and in their own lives.

It appears as though a show that has a characteristic endpoint since it manages youthfulness. Do you feel like there's a cap on how long "Sex Education" right?

We must on the grounds that I'm quick moving toward 30. We could go to uni, I surmise, however I would especially prefer not to play a fresher when I'm 45. It will need to reach a conclusion, which is pitiful, yet additionally I feel like you ought to consistently leave them needing more. Continuously end on a high as opposed to having individuals go, "I truly wish they would stop."