Anthony Hopkins is an Academy Award Golden Globe- and Emmy Award-winning film thanks to his great talent playing strong characters in the movies.

Hopkins will play movie mogul Alfred Hitchcock, the actor says that feels he's the right guy to portray his fellow Brit--and pay a proper tribute to him.

Alfred Hitchcock was an iconic and highly influential British-born film director and producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres.

Hitchcock was among the most consistently successful and publicly recognizable world directors during his lifetime, and remains one of the best known and most popular of all time.

Hopkins says, "I'm not one of those guys who went to film school and watched Hitchcock movies in order to study, but I admire people who know all about Hitchcock.  I'm a real Hitchcock fan. I know all about the movies and had a closer look at why he set that shot up in the way that he did and the skill and rhythm of his movies like Rear Window and Vertigo.

In playing the director, Hopkins will attempt to forget a brief meeting he had with Hitchcock early in his career.

He explains, "I met him once very briefly. He was sitting at a place called Ma Maison and I was sitting with my agent... He had just been knighted and he was very heavy, enormous; he looked ill. That was my one contact with him."

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) opposite Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling.
 


Publication date: 08 November 2007   

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