Years later he would confess that his aggression came from being hungover, given that he did not want to drink during his working day. On December 29, , Hopkins awoke in a motel in Phoenix without having a clue as to how he got there.
Misplaced paranoia, probably. Sometimes he would get in his car and drive for weeks, while others he would go for days without speaking to anyone. In , when he had won two Emmys, his father passed away. I went in there a few days later, and he had an old road map of America, and he was sitting on the side of his bed and looking at this road map. I knew he would never make it.
He died without doing so. I hate actors but I love acting. I get ashamed with myself for doing it. I know I ought to be doing something else. I am taking the line of least resistance in doing films and it makes me feel like a con-man. When I think about how my parents slaved all their lives in a bakery for peanuts it just seems too easy. And that seems wrong somehow.
Days later his American agent called him up: Hackman had turned down the role of Hannibal Lecter and he was the second choice. Families split and, you know, 'Get on with your life. Jazz artist and actor Abigail told the Telegraph in "I would see him, but maybe once a year.
There is a little bit of sadness but I have to get on with my life. See him, and then not. Then, when I was 16, there was some row. In , Hopkins quit drinking. At the same time, Hopkins was accepting acting jobs with little regard to the quality of the script.
Hopkins admitted to People that he made little attempt to save his career, and in fact accepted less desirable roles in an attempt to reject his formal Shakespearean upbringing in the British theatre. He acted, he says, "out of perverseness and sheer rebellion toward the English Establishment.
I was saying, 'That's all crap over there. During this time, he earned an Emmy Award for his portrayal of Bruno Hauptmann, in the television movie The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case and for his portrayal of Hitler in the television movie The Bunker. While he received recognition for these two projects, the majority of the movies Hopkins made during this time period were less than memorable.
In , at the urging of his wife, Hopkins reluctantly moved back to London, and he returned to the stage. A self-proclaimed workaholic, Hopkins attacked the British theatre, playing Shakespeare's Lear and Anthony on two different stages for a total of performances over a month period. In , he received an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters, from the University of Wales.
In , he was knighted. His desire for international critical acclaim and recognition came in , when he earned an Academy Award for best actor in the box office hit Silence of the Lambs. Hopkins played Dr. Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter, a demonic, but brilliant serial killer known for eating his victims.
Jodie Foster played a Federal Bureau of Investigations agent looking to Lecter for clues to catch another serial killer still at large. Hopkins's portrayal of Lecter was decidedly dark, menacing, and evil.
Although Hopkins only appeared in 27 minutes of the movie, this role finally made him an actor of Hollywood superstar status. After Silence of the Lambs, Hopkins did not slow his movie-making pace, acting in four films released in , and five in , plus a television movie in both and His most noticed film was The Remains of the Day, for which he received an Academy Award nomination and a Golden Globe nomination for his portrayal of the reserved butler, Stevens.
Nixon in controversial director Oliver Stone's movie Nixon. The casting of Hopkins, a British actor, as Nixon was questioned by much of the entertainment media. After waking up one day in a hotel room in Arizona with no idea how he got there, he quit drinking in Hopkins began to accept whatever acting jobs he was offered.
From to he appeared in over twenty-five movies made for either television or theatrical release. Although he earned two Emmy Awards in and , most of the movies he made during this time period, including Audrey Rose , International Velvet , and A Change of Seasons , were less than memorable. In Hopkins moved back to London and returned to the stage. Over a seventeen-month period he appeared in two hundred performances of two different William Shakespeare — plays.
In he received an honorary achieved without meeting the usual requirements degree of Doctor of Letters from the University of Wales. In he was knighted. He played Dr. Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter, a killer known for eating his victims. Although he appeared in only twenty-seven minutes of the movie, this role finally made Hopkins a superstar.
His most noticed film was The Remains of the Day , for which he was nominated put forward for consideration for another Academy Award for his role as Stevens, the reserved butler. Hopkins also earned Academy Award nominations for his performances as two U.
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