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The phrase “they don’t make ‘em like they used to” has by no means confirmed extra correct than with respect to legendary nonagenarian actor and comic Dick Van Dyke.
The “Mary Poppins” star, who turns 99 subsequent week, seems in a model new longform music video for the Coldplay track “All My Love,” debuting Friday. Van Dyke is in high type within the venture – dancing barefoot, singing alongside Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, and even performing some bodily comedy.
Filmed at Van Dyke’s Malibu, California residence, the video is interspersed with previous images and props from the beloved entertainer’s seven-decade profession, together with publicity stills alongside Mary Tyler Moore for “The Dick Van Dyke Show” and certainly one of his 4 Primetime Emmy statuettes.
At one level, Van Dyke remarks that his favourite lyrics in “All My Love” – off of Coldplay’s tenth studio album “Moon Music” – are “Until I die, let me maintain you for those who cry.” In an interview, he shares, “I’m acutely conscious that I might go any day now, however I don’t know why, it doesn’t concern me, I’m not afraid of it. I’ve that feeling, completely towards something mental, that I’m going to be alright.”
Van Dyke is then seen on the dance flooring alongside his spouse, make-up artist Arlene Silver, as they interact in choreography whereas sporting matching bowler hats earlier than the remainder of his “huge household” be part of them for picture-taking and camaraderie.
The funnyman additionally shows that he nonetheless has his sharp humorousness, when the interviewer asks him to shut his eyes and take into consideration all of the people who have meant one thing to him over the course of his life. After a beat along with his eyes closed, Van Dyke says, “I’m too previous for this, I’ll cross out and fall asleep” as he play-acts nodding off in his chair.
Elsewhere, the “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” actor holds a bunch of pink balloons and pretends, fairly convincingly for a second, to drift away.
“I believe I’m a type of fortunate individuals who acquired to do for a residing what I might have completed anyway,” Van Dyke remarks within the clip, as scenes from his display profession play. “When you suppose how fortunate I’m – I acquired to do what I do, play and act foolish.”
A shorter model of the music video shall be launched on Friday, December 13, to mark the event of Van Dyke’s 99th birthday.
