Anthony Hopkins is expected to be back at the Oscars this year — earning his sixth acting nomination — for his performance in Florian Zeller’s “The Father.”
In the drama, which will be released by Sony Pictures Classics on Feb. 26, 2021, Hopkins plays Anthony, a man struggling with dementia in the final years of his life. It was a role that deeply affected him, Hopkins told his “Silence of the Lambs” co-star Jodie Foster during a conversation for Variety‘s annual Actors on Actors movies issue.
“Sounds so cheesy, but it’s made me very aware now how precious life is, and how we contain ourselves within something so mysterious,” Hopkins says in the issue, on newsstands on Jan. 20. “To me, life is just sort of a dream. It’s an illusion. It’s got me conscious of something else. That life is much more powerful than we even begin to comprehend.
In the drama, which will be released by Sony Pictures Classics on Feb. 26, 2021, Hopkins plays Anthony, a man struggling with dementia in the final years of his life. It was a role that deeply affected him, Hopkins told his “Silence of the Lambs” co-star Jodie Foster during a conversation for Variety‘s annual Actors on Actors movies issue.
“Sounds so cheesy, but it’s made me very aware now how precious life is, and how we contain ourselves within something so mysterious,” Hopkins says in the issue, on newsstands on Jan. 20. “To me, life is just sort of a dream. It’s an illusion. It’s got me conscious of something else. That life is much more powerful than we even begin to comprehend.
- 1/19/2021
- by Ramin Setoodeh
- Variety Film + TV
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