Anthony Hopkins
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How, I don't know.
And I remember, this is another thing, I remember going to see a play with the great Peter O'Toole at the Bristol Old Vic.
He was playing Jimmy Porter in Look Back in Anger.
And onto the stage came this lightning bolt, Peter O'Toole, very dangerous actor.
And I thought, God, if he stepped off the stage, he'd come and kill us all.
And ten years later...
I was in the theatre, the National Theatre, playing Andre in Laurence Olivier's production of Three Sisters by Chekhov.
Knock on the door at the end of the evening, we should be there, Peter O'Toole.
Now that's weird.
And he said, I want you to do a film test for me.
It's a film with Catherine Hepburn called The Lion and Winter.
Yeah.
So I showed up and did the test.
He said, right, you've got it.
You've got the part.
And he'd had a few to drink and we had a few to drink of that day.
Now that's beyond explanation to me.
And when I look at that film, which I do occasionally, I think...
How on earth did that happen?
Why me?