Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony | movie | 2021 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

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00:00 I like to be center stage, taken with big parts.

00:05 I'm not interested in being worthy.

00:08 I'm not interested in being virtuous and standing there for the good of the company.

00:13 I'm simply not interested in that.

00:15 I say, "Bollocks."

00:18 In 1991, in The Silence of the Lambs by Jonathan Demme,

00:22 Anthony Hopkins achieves worldwide success

00:25 playing a cannibalistic psychopath imprisoned in a cage.

00:29 The most famous serial killer of all time, Hannibal Lecter.

00:33 Even though he was on screen for only 20 minutes throughout the movie,

00:37 it's enough to propel him to the top of Hollywood at almost 60 years old

00:41 and after more than 30 years of acting.

00:44 The biggest directors fight over him,

00:46 like Francis Ford Coppola, who casts him in Dracula.

00:49 Action!

00:51 Mina!

00:55 Even Steven Spielberg wants him to play the President of the United States in Amistad.

01:00 You're coming down, you're the secretary.

01:02 This is a better location.

01:05 Have you seen the house we've done this?

01:07 No.

01:08 You're going to love this.

01:10 1992 is a turning point for him.

01:12 In addition to becoming the favorite actor of James Ivory,

01:15 it's also the year that he is cemented among the greatest actors of all time

01:19 for his iconic role in The Silence of the Lambs.

01:23 And the Oscar goes to Anthony Hopkins.

01:27 I thought when I got up there to take the Oscar,

01:32 I thought, well, now I can do some bad films, which I proceeded to do.

01:35 It doesn't matter, really.

01:37 I touched the ceiling of my life, I suppose.

01:40 I love the coldness of life.

01:44 I love the inevitability of it all.

01:48 [The Silence of the Lambs]

01:52 [The Center for Autonomous Media and the Digital World]

01:57 [BLANK_AUDIO]