Acting style
Hopkins is renowned for his firm preparation for roles. He has confessed in interviews that once he has committed to a project, he will go over his lines as many times as is needed (sometimes upwards of 200) until the lines sound natural to him, so that he can "do it without thinking". This leads to an almost casual style of delivery that belies the amount of groundwork done beforehand. While it can allow for some careful improvisation, it has also brought him into conflict with the occasional director who departs from the script, or demands what the actor views as an excessive number of takes. Hopkins has also stated that after he is finished with a scene, he simply discards the lines, not remembering them later on. This is unlike other actors who usually remember their lines from a film even years later.
Richard Attenborough, who has directed Hopkins on five occasions, found himself going to great lengths during the filming of Shadowlands (1993) to accommodate the differing
More about Anthony Hopkins (From Wikipedia)
In 1965, After Several Years In Repertory, He Was Spotted By Sir Laurence Olivier, Who Invited Him To Join The Royal National Theatre. Hopkins Became Olivier's Understudy, And Filled In When Olivier Was Struck With Appendicitis During A Production Of
In 1965, after several years in repertory, he was spotted by Sir Laurence Olivier, who invited him to join the Royal National Theatre. Hopkins became Olivier's understudy, and filled read more...
Acting Style
Hopkins is renowned for his firm preparation for roles. He has confessed in interviews that once he has committed to a project, he will go over his lines as many times as is needed read more...
Hannibal Lecter
Hopkins' most famous role is the cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1992. He was opposite read more...
Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins, CBE (born December 31, 1937) is a Welsh film, stage and television actor. Considered by many to be one of film's greatest living actors, he is arguably read more...
As of 2007, Hopkins resides in the United States. He had moved to the country once before during the 1970s to pursue his film career, but returned to Britain in the late 1980s. However, read more...
Besides his win for The Silence of the Lambs, Hopkins has been Oscar-nominated for The Remains of the Day (1993), Nixon (1995) and Amistad (1997).
Hopkins won the BAFTA Award read more...