Dick Van Dyke stars in shifting Coldplay video as he turns 99


Mary Poppins actor Dick Van Dyke has taken a starring position in Coldplay’s newest music video, as he prepares to have a good time his 99th birthday.
Filmed in his beachside residence in Malibu, the shifting video sees the star reminisce about his life and replicate on previous age.
“I am acutely conscious that I might go any day now,” he says, “however I do not know why it would not concern me. I am not afraid of it. I’ve the sensation that I am gonna be alright.”
Set to the ballad All My Love, the video was co-directed by Mary Wigmore and Oscar-winning filmmaker Spike Jonze, whose motion pictures embrace Being John Malkovich, Her and Adaptation.
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Working for seven minutes, it is a touching and intimate portrait of the beloved actor, whose different credit embrace Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Bye Bye Birdie and the TV present Analysis: Homicide.
He permits the filmmakers to tour his residence, showcasing memorabilia from his motion pictures – together with a lifesize reproduction of Bert, his chimney-sweeping character from Mary Poppins.
The star additionally recreates The Twizzle (an impossibly versatile routine from his Sixties TV sitcom, The Dick Van Dyke Present) as Chris Martin serenades him on the patio of his home; and dances barefoot together with his spouse, Arlene Silver.
However probably the most emotional second comes as he talks about his 4 kids, Christian, Barry, Stacy and Carrie Beth.
Van Dyke gazes lovingly at a photograph of Stacy being learn a bedtime story, and divulges: “I’ve had goals the place I am depressed or lonely or damage, and he or she involves consolation me. She really involves consolation me.”

His household – together with dozens of grandchildren – arrive later within the video, dancing and singing with the actor, who tells Martin he’s significantly taken with one line of All My Love: “Till I die / Let me maintain you in the event you cry.“
The video ends with Martin improvising a track for the star, who watches in astonishment because the music involves life.
“Have we bought that on movie?” he asks. “Are you able to imagine this man?”

All My Love is the most recent single from Coldplay’s tenth studio album, Moon Music, which went to primary in October.
The group have taken a unusual strategy to selling the report, internet hosting a phase on the purchasing channel QVC, and filming an impromptu video for the track We Pray in the midst of Dublin’s Grafton Avenue, shortly earlier than they performed a present on the metropolis’s Croke Park Stadium.
An earlier video for All My Love additionally noticed Chris Martin strolling the streets of Las Vegas in disguise, singing karaoke and handing out balloons to strangers… a scene which Van Dyke briefly recreates within the newest clip.
In an interview on the US chat present Jimmy Kimmel Stay!, Martin revealed that he and Van Dyke are neighbours in California, and that that they had been buddies for years.
“This actually could be the most enjoyable factor I’ve ever achieved,” he stated of the video.
“It makes me so grateful. It is a huge deal for me.”
The video premiered on the band’s YouTube channel. A shorter edit might be launched on 13 December, to mark Van Dyke’s 99th birthday.