David Marchese

Have you ever been diagnosed?

No.

But the other label, it's right in the same paragraph.

You say another label that might apply is the label cold fish.

And you say that you prefer the cold fish label to the Asperger's label.

Why is that?

Why does that feel more fitting or more comfortable to you?

The personal remoteness you described, I was wondering how that might actually benefit your performances sometimes.

Because when I think of some of my favorite performances that you've given, I'm thinking of things like Remains of the Day or 84 Charing Cross Road, The Father, even on some level Silence of the Lambs or Shadowlands has this too.

I feel like there is sort of an emotional remoteness to some of those characters.

And I wonder if that's something...

that is just sort of like a fingerprint, maybe, or a signature of a good Anthony Hopkins performance?

Or is that an intentional performing strategy?

It compels you to watch.

There's another epiphany that I'd like to go back to, if you don't mind.

This is another one you describe in the book.

You were driving...

in Los Angeles in, I think, the late 70s.

Yeah.

And you felt a pull to go over to a Catholic church.