Anthony Hopkins | Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
From Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sir Anthony Hopkins (We Did Ok, Kid, The Silence of the Lambs, The Father) is an Academy, Emmy, and BAFTA Award-winning actor. Anthony joins the Armchair Expert to discuss feeling othered and playing the role of the dummy in school, how growing up during a war shaped him, and a chance invitation at the YMCA that changed the trajectory of his life. Anthony and Dax talk about booking his first role the same day James Dean was killed, the advice Laurence Olivier offered after seeing him perform ...
Who is mentioned in this episode?
15 people come up, including Elizabeth Taylor, Dak Shepard, Lily Padman.
- Elizabeth Taylor (Person)
- Dak Shepard (Person)
- Lily Padman (Person)
- Sandra Sheffield (Person)
- Lawrence Olivier (Person)
- Richard Burton (Person)
- Mike Nichols (Person)
- Raymond Edwards (Person)
- Anthony Perkins (Person)
- Richard Attenborough (Person)
- Ian McKellen (Person)
- Steven Barton (Person)
- Stella Hopkins (Person)
- William Landay (Person)
- JK Simmons (Person)
Mentioned in this episode
- Universal Horror Nights (Product)
- Asperger syndrome (Concept)
- We Did Okay, Kid (Book)
- Hannibal (Book)
- The Father (Product)
- Meet Joe Black (Product)
- Fracture (Product)
- YMCA (Company)
- The Christmas Angels (Product)
- Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama (Company)
- Cardiff (Location)
- Old Vic Theatre (Company)
- Three Sisters (Book)
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Product)
- Royal Artillery (Company)
- Nil carborundum (Concept)
- Odd Man Out (Product)
- Equus (Book)
- Western Mail (Company)
- Young Winston (Product)