I got to work with him on Hitchcock and he was amazing, but also very approachable, gracious and generous to everyone he worked with. He went around thanking everyone, and shaking their hands when he was wrapped. A total class act. My fav actor. And he is always good in everything he appears in, even if the play or film isn’t.

@deborahbarnes8377

Жыл бұрын

I just think he's so attractive

@musikafossora

Жыл бұрын

@@deborahbarnes8377 honestly me too. he’s very charming.

@Daisnap

9 ай бұрын

Yes! So honest and self-aware, warts and all, and so very charming and attractive. Something does take over when you’re tuned in onstage. It is like magic.

@whatshisname3304

9 ай бұрын

i thought he was brilliant in silence of the lambs. perfectly eloquent and menacing as the devil.

@pecsandnips

9 ай бұрын

@@whatshisname3304 He didn’t play the devil; he played a cannibalistic serial killer!

These old Anthony Hopkins interviews are so great. He is a respectable, intelligent man and it's wonderful to hear him speak when he was young.

@MahlerHolic1860

2 жыл бұрын

I interviewed him in 1992 for a local paper in his and my home town of Port Talbot. He was a delightful, gracious gentleman.

@MarkHarrison733

Жыл бұрын

He was middle aged here. He could never act due to his autism.

It’s a shame mr Hopkins doesn’t do more interviews, absolutely brilliant.

Anthony Hopkins voice has never changed.

I adore his voice & the way he speaks/accent.. Very handsome & a superb actor

@lyallg7925

23 күн бұрын

He has an amazing voice. He is an amazing artist.

I'm watching a few days after this extraordinarily talented man has just won his well deserved second Oscar for 'The Father' and it's so obvious that he was destined for extreme greatness. His intellect without a hint of arrogance is something to behold. What a wonderful career and life he's lived.

Cavett’s words have proven prophetic. ‘That may be the secret of survival in this business….’ Well over 45 years later, Sir Anthony is still at the pinnacle of his craft.

@melvert33

23 күн бұрын

Watched The Father recently and though its grim subject matter, Hopkins puts in an amazing performance.

I'm so in loooooove with his voice , accent , personality and mind !

@karengittins6648

3 жыл бұрын

He is such a low-key and unassuming man, and the most intelligent actor. And you are so right about his voice. His soft welsh accent and his delivery are just beautiful ...

@ruly8153

2 жыл бұрын

@@karengittins6648 I’ve grown so fond of him. No pretense, no arrogance, professional, and Sincere.

@anneominous7172

Ай бұрын

@@ruly8153 A lot of the Welsh are like that, I've found. A humble and brilliant people.

He is very attractive and witty. Nice interview.

A truly outstanding actor. I saw him as Mark Anthony acting alongside Dame Judy Dench in Shakespeare's Anthony and Cleopatra at the National Theatre in the 1980s. Both he and Judy consummate performers. Remains Of The Day is another great performance and a fabulous film.

@Missjunebugfreak

3 ай бұрын

I'm beyond jealous you got to see two of the finest Shakespearean actors live on stage. Anthony Hopkins is a remarkable actor.

Lot of people will go on about Sir Anthony Hopkins playing Lecter. But to me, he's Richard the Lionhearted.

@kennschmidt966

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely.

@edwinahughes9052

9 ай бұрын

And the Lion in Winter is the movie in which Kate Hepburn admonished him for drinking and said if he didn't quit he would be dead like Tracy. I'd like to think she put a little spark in him to quit.

He'll always be Hannibal to most people, but I think his greatest role was as Captain Blye . Such a great actor.

@nalagrz5773

4 жыл бұрын

Yes and also Mr Stevens in the movie the remains of the day

@QueerOkie

2 жыл бұрын

Don't forget 'World's Fastest Indian' and 'Zoro'

@Paulco67

2 жыл бұрын

His portrayal of Mr Wilcox in Howard’s End is simply superb and with Emma Thompson, it’s simply my favorite movie ever. Talk about off the chart skills ….The acting nuances are sublime.

@davekp6773

2 жыл бұрын

I completely agree. He played Bligh in a way which history agrees with, in that Bligh was not the monster that both Laughton and Howard presented.

@edwinahughes9052

9 ай бұрын

He was nominated and should have won for NIXON. a bit long but wonderful but you know Hollywood politics. Another favorite is WORLD'S FASTRST INDIAN. Should have been nominated at least.

It baffles me that these excellent interviews/talks with Hopkins don't have more views.

@MrRufusRToyota

8 ай бұрын

Lol

Richard Burton, Anthony Hopkins, Timothy Dalton: my three favorite actors are all Welsh. Go figure.

@staxmantim

13 күн бұрын

I believe Christian Bale is Welsh born. And I always enjoyed looking at Catherine Zeta-Jones too

@joannleichliter4308

13 күн бұрын

@@staxmantim Bale is very talented. Have you seen "Empire of the Sun"? It's an excellent film and the first one in which I saw Bale (then just a child).

He was so good in Magic. A lesser actor might have gone over the top with his performance but Anthony Hopkins gets to the edge and does a very careful balancing act. He never makes the character silly or implausible....but it still has an exaggeration we expect from a performance in a film. I love the story he tells while making the film where he wanted the dummy Fats with him, but called early in the morning to have it immediately removed. I wouldn't want that thing in my room either. The film is still very effective.

@pecsandnips

9 ай бұрын

Loved that film!

@kevinchambers1101

4 ай бұрын

It was a wonderful film and a true tragedy. It never received the acclaim it deserved.

He's so handsome, of course you'd want to listen to this actor go on about acting just like the actors he doesn't really like who pontificate about their work -- even when other normal people don't.

Wow, this is a wonderful find. I really enjoy Anthony Hopkins acting, he is wonderful!

Anthony Hopkins: a great man and the best actor still alive today.

@Paulco67

2 жыл бұрын

Daniel Day Lewis is right with him…

@elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633

4 ай бұрын

@@Paulco67Tht's what I thought instantly.

@John-oo9pw

2 ай бұрын

Lol Pacino

@John-oo9pw

2 ай бұрын

​@@Paulco67😅😅😅

@oldhatcinema

2 ай бұрын

@@elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633 I've been wanting to see some of Day Lewis's work. Any specific recommendations?

The collars on my shirts were bigger than that back in the day. When we had high winds I would take off and fly to work 🤔

The most attractive actor of all times, still is!

I had no idea Hopkins was Welsh, until I heard his accent in this interview. I guess it's because I so rarely see him just being himself.

@Paulco67

2 жыл бұрын

He and Richard Burton, another superb actor, grew up near each other..

@johnh6245

3 ай бұрын

@@Paulco67Also Michael Sheen, all from the Port Talbot area in South Wales. Only Burton had Welsh as his first language.

Maravillosa entrevista , desde Sudamérica , gracias 🌈🌴🌄

The segment starting at 2:17 and running almost exactly 60 seconds is a perfect description of the flow state.

Around the time Magic was released. Great film 🎥

Thank You !

He remains fascinating 👏

He's not often talked about as a sex symbol but young Hopkins is DANGEROUSLY handsome 😍

I'm surprised spesh as it's mainly an American audience that no one ☝️ comments on his subtle but beautiful WELSH accent. A ancient language completely unrecognizable language compared to ENGLISH.

@edwinahughes9052

9 ай бұрын

I saw a 2 hour interview with Richard Burton last night. It' another cavett interview. Cavett asks him what his accent was like before he changed. He did it beautifully. Basically they roll the "r". Burton died at 58. Such a waste due to drink. 7 Oscar nominations and no wins. Hollywood has no soul.

I'm not an actor. But I love his approach as an artist. Wonderful insights.

The idea at one point in time his parents were genuinely worried about what their son could do with his future/career... and their son became one of the greatest actors of our generation.

Wonderful actor.

There is a bit of a graceful shyness about him.

He seems like a lovely guy. Lots of actors, comics esp., are shy.

LOVE A.H. - great artist!

Amazing.

Great answer

Marvellous actor

Wonderful thanks so much x

One of my main inspirations for joining Alcoholics Anonymous.

@reccct

8 ай бұрын

why?

Dear You are beautiful and lovely dear you are so amazing and is forever dear Sir Anthony Hopkins forever.xx

gosh.. a younger Anthony Hopkins.. interesting.. dead welsh 'in 'ee.. greetings from south wales! uk.. 🙂 x

It's interesting how present his Welsh accent was then.

some people are just great actors. they would never admit that they are geniuses.

why don't we have those more substantial conversations on TV nowadays? everything is like Elen Degeneres

I love this man 😍💋♥️

Imagine Anthony Hopkins being a play and having no lines. It’s amazing to think that every actor we know as being great has had teachers whom they idolized.

Imagine being one of the best actors in the world, and not having the patience for repeat performances. Anyone less talented would hung on to the first success, and then just keep going on doing that.

Just looked at the air date, I was born a month before this......Hmmm

YOUNG ANTHONY HOPKIN

Tony as a younger man was absolutely gorgeous.

His shirt collar is HUGE

ele era lindo

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

He’s so humble 1:32

Great Actor, he was born grey. I saw him in a film 1969, he was going grey then.

I have nothing against the other celebs that were on this show but is this channel ever going to show the Dick Cavett shows where he interviews Jackie Gleason or Art Carney? How about any Honeymooners actors that were part of the main cast? These are rare much like all of the other Dick Cavett interviews

Tony still drinking in them days . . . .God bless you.

Mr Hopkins tells Mr Cavett that he stole from Mr Olivier but he doesn't tell us what. In other words, he does not tell us 'what he learned from Laurence Olivier'.

I've never seen him young. He resembles Mikhail Baryshnikov.

“Not swift at school, academically or athletically.” Well, to the prior I find it hard to believe

@HBarnill

9 ай бұрын

It's been recently revealed he's autistic, so that could be it.

He Could take off with those Collars!!😳✈️

@MobinKiadeh

3 жыл бұрын

Well it was 1978 😂, my Dad had similar ones in the 70s.

Why does he remind me a bit of a welsh David Byrne here?

It’s ironic that he was asked to do Olivier in the missing scene from Spartacus where Crassus is bathing and makes an allusion to Antoninus that he is attracted sexually to him. This scene was cut and later reinstated after Oliviers death. Hopkins was asked to do the voice over for Crassus, and as he states in this interview he was good at mimicry. He does a brilliant job of it too. I say this as an ARDENT, OBSESSED fan of Olivier for many many years. Thank you Mr Hopkins, what a man and what an actor.

@TheStockwell

2 жыл бұрын

It was Joan Plowright who remembered Hopkins' Olivier impression and recommended him. Hopkins' only request in accepting the job was to keep his involvement as secret as possible so as to not distract from the scene. Hopkins has told of auditioning for the National Theatre by performing Shakespeare - as Olivier. To his horror, Olivier attended his audition. Olivier later told Hopkins he was furious but had no choice in approving him for the company - he could hardly say Hopkins had no clear idea of how to perform Shakespeare.

Watching this I truly wonder where did he find Hannibal Lecter?

I keep looking at his teeth, because of Silence of the lambs.

Earl Cave could play a younger version of him in a biopic.

How old was he here?

@MarkHarrison733

Жыл бұрын

40.

I feel like some Favre beans and a nice keyanti.

This is how stewie from family guy talks like:

Am I the only one that can't see the Olivier genius? Too me he is always so self conscious! So pompous! But perhaps I am mistaken....? I really need to watch Magic again..."How long have you been like this kid?" "You need help..."

'Dick ........I must warn you, a census taker once tried to test me.......i ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti'

@oldhatcinema

2 жыл бұрын

😂😂

Hopkins is active since the late 60s. But to be honest, I wasn't particularly fond of him until "Silence of the Lambs". And it wasn't his acting, that was great right from the start. But somehow, he came over either as "too big" and therefore underused or as too whiney or psychological. But of course the 90s changed everything. His best movie is still "The Remains of the Day" IMHO.

What he really learned was how to eat some fava beans and a nice chianti. (I apologize, I had to)

Wait, Anthony Hopkins had hair? This must be really really old

I seen him first time with his hair and it's some weird

He's never looked so young💁‍♂️

@cainabel2009

3 жыл бұрын

Ikr it is like your parents you grow up with them and you don't remember them been young but when you look at pictures of them looking so young you think wow they really look young

@chrisr7597

3 жыл бұрын

@@cainabel2009 Absolutely true👍

@totallybored5526

5 ай бұрын

So he looked older than this video when he was 4 years old?

Perfectionism is insanity

I sense he has sobriety then.

3:24 - are you kidding me?! Anthony Hopkins runs rings as an actor around olivier! as does Gary Oldman. he was great back in the day but come on British talent has come a long way hasn't it? he's such an old ham! (like Kenneth Branagh) lacks any subtly whatsoever - would never have survived stanislavki's actors studio in Russia! his wife was way better than him (Olivier that is).

@totallybored5526

5 ай бұрын

Method acting isn’t a high standard of acting, it’s just a tool. And don’t forget what Olivier said to Hoffman, when Hoffman was torturing himself for a scene, “why don’t you try acting dear? it’s so much easier”

@kapple654

5 ай бұрын

@@totallybored5526 Olivier was great at one lined quips and double entendre (as is natural to the Brit... the older the generation the better)... but as an actor (sure he worked with great scripts and roles) but I don't feel as harrowingly convinced as I do with say Oldman. Who said anything about method acting? You are having a private conversation in your head (or with someone else)... I merely mentioned preferring one artist to another (despite the fact that the other artist is clearly very very good). you'r getting confused old chap.

he left Britain because he felt it was too uptight and rigid, while America was a lot more creative and relaxed. so sad now America becomes very uptight and rigid.

Cavett wishes he were half the interviewer (or man) that Jimmy Fallon is.

@kweejibodali3078

2 жыл бұрын

that is absolutely hilarious to me as Jimmy Fallon gets so many comments ( which i agree with) about what a terrible interviewer he is ! he constantly interrupts, does this weird fake sounding laugh... and cavett gets so many wonderful feedbacks ( which i completely agree with ).

@stardresser1

2 жыл бұрын

That is seriousssssly doubtful...

@roddyboethius1722

2 жыл бұрын

😂

@nkt1

2 жыл бұрын

I could watch Cavett interview people all day long. Fallon is a great comic performer; his Barry Gibb Talk Show skits are sublime. But he’s no great shakes as an interviewer.