Dick Van Dyke, the lithe and witty nonagenarian whose profession spans greater than seven a long time, has added yet one more position to his prolonged résumé: music video star.
Dancing barefoot within the yard of his Malibu, Calif., house, Van Dyke, 98, is the main focus of Coldplay’s newest music video, “All My Love.”
Van Dyke, who starred on “The Dick Van Dyke Show” from 1961 to 1966 and danced his approach via “Mary Poppins” 60 years in the past, pulls out a few of his signature dance strikes whereas the band’s frontman Chris Martin performs an upright piano.
The video, directed by Spike Jonze and Mary Wigmore, was filmed in October. A administrators’ minimize that lasts greater than seven minutes got here out on Friday; a shorter model might be launched Dec. 13 on Van Dyke’s 99th birthday.
Van Dyke, who’s launched with a title card noting that he was born in 1925, gamely pokes enjoyable at his age, together with when a voice asks him to shut his eyes and consider the individuals who meant one thing to him. He does, after which opens them. “I’m too outdated for this — I’ll move out and fall asleep,” he says, including, with a mischievous chuckle, “I’ll take a nap!”
Martin stated Thursday on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” that it was his and Jonze’s thought to forged Van Dyke within the video. Martin stated that he and Van Dyke are neighbors, and that that they had met a number of years in the past.
“This actually will be the most enjoyable factor I’ve ever completed,” Martin stated of the video. “It makes me so grateful. It’s a giant deal for me.”
In the video, pictures of Van Dyke’s household and from his lengthy profession — together with an image with Mary Tyler Moore, his co-star on the “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” and “Mary Poppins” memorabilia — flash on the display. Van Dyke, in a swimsuit and tie however no footwear, dances and exhibits of a few of his outdated comedian strikes.
Many scenes present his spouse, Arlene Silver, and his household gathered round him. And at instances he grows considerate, meditating on getting old, household and love. “I’m acutely conscious that I’m, you understand, may go any day now however I don’t know why it doesn’t concern me,” Van Dyke says. “I’m not afraid of it. I’ve that feeling, completely in opposition to something mental, that I’m going to be all proper.”
Van Dyke provides that he had been fortunate to have the ability to “play and act foolish” for a dwelling.
