David Marchese

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Next week, Lulu talks with journalist Tina Brown about the Royals, Jeffrey Epstein, and how the magazine world has changed since her days editing Vanity Fair and The New Yorker in the 80s and 90s.

I'm David Marchese, and this is The Interview from The New York Times.

From the New York Times, this is The Interview.

I'm David Marchese.

In so many of Sir Anthony Hopkins' greatest performances, he's able to suggest captivating hidden depths to his characters.

That's true whether he's playing a murderer like Hannibal Lecter or a kindly doctor like he did in The Elephant Man.

There's always a sense that these men are thinking and feeling things that, for whatever reason, they're keeping to themselves.

The same can no longer be said for Hopkins.

In his new autobiography, We Did Okay, Kid, the 87-year-old shares the details of his rough youth in Wales, his painful estrangement from his only child, a daughter from his first marriage, and his rise to Hollywood success.

The book also reveals a man who isn't content to merely recount what happened and when.

He's also given a lot of thought to the big questions, the why of it all and what it all means.

And yet, even at this late stage, he remains mystified by the sheer luck and improbability of his unlikely life.

Here's my conversation with Sir Anthony Hopkins.

Hello, David.

Tony Hopkins.

I was wondering, do I go Sir Anthony?