Bill Nighy criticizes UK's mind-set towards ‘Old People’

Bill Nighy, the actor, yesterday criticized the method Britain “storehouse and medicated” it’s aged as one of the “largest scandals of our society”. 

 

The 62-year-old film actor, made eminent by his role in the romantic comedy Love Actually, said old citizens justified to be “encouraged” by their families rather than disregarded.

He explained the UK’s malfunction to value and pays attention to senior citizens as worrying, and said that in spite of their age pensioners loved being disputed.

Especially, he pointed out the huge cost of care of the old people, which often endangers financially crippling those needing assistance.

“The method the elderly are cured, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and paid attention to, is upsetting”, he said.

“The reality that they pay taxes all of their lives and then are waited for giving all of their savings to continue themselves should they require help is completely shameful and one of the biggest scandals of our society.”

Nighy, who performed in theatre and TV before his first cinema role in 1981, spoke out earlier to the release of his newly film in which he performs along with Dames Judi Dench and Maggie Smith.

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is a legend centered round a motley group of pensioners who leave Britain for Jaipur, India, after considering an advert for an apparently comfy refuge for “the aged and beautiful.”

For several financial causes all are convinced, and in some cases gratified, to go on board on an uncertain future at the retirement home, where their care is outsourced.

Other actors of the comedy-drama, directed by John Madden, as well as Penelope Wilton, of Downton Abbey, Celia Imrie, who starred in the BBC sitcom After You’ve Gone, and Slumdog Millionaire's Dev Patel.

Yesterday, Nighy illustrated one scene in the movie where he drove around on a motorbike as Dame Judi rode side burden as his traveler. He said the experience demonstrated how people of his age still reveled in new escapades.

Dame Judi, 77, who performs as widow in the movie, also condemned UK’s stance towards the old people and said her family had helped massively from giving a home to both her late husband’s parents and her own mother.

Talking to the Radio Times, she said: “We’re not noble at dealing with senior citizens in this country. We pushed people in a room and put them sitting round a TV.

“We didn’t act that in our family - push people into a nursing home. Michael (her late husband, actor Michael Williams) and I had his parents and my mother, who was widowed then, and we all resided jointly for 12 years.

“You find out such a lot from the age bracket above you. My daughter has beautiful memories of that time and now speaks about her grandparents with great fondness, as do I.”

Nighy, who declared driving Dame Judi around had been intimidating, added: “In spite of being in my 60s, I love seeking new things and being disputed, and the largest one in this movie was riding a motorbike. If I’d been on my own, I’d have likely been OK, because who concerns?

“But when you have somebody on the back, sitting along with burden, and that somebody happens to be Dame Judi Dench, let me tell you that are very overwhelming certainly. And if you kill Judi Dench, you can’t go back home.” 

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel opens in cinemas across the UK on February 24.