Anthony Hopkins

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q65932: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to The Edge, which ‘The Edge’ With Bill Simmons and Van Lathan credits them on.

No film of theirs is counted: acting and studio count only when asked for, so what they drew on and who drew on them comes only from the lines with them at one end. Count them as actor (25 films) instead.

Draws on

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career (6)

  1. career (career arc): Anthony Hopkins → The Silence of the Lambs. Silence made Hopkins an A-lister and a strange mainstream path followed.
    “Silence of the Lambs became an absolute cultural phenomenon.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ With Bill Simmons and Van Lathan · 0:13:25 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. career (career arc): Anthony Hopkins → Hannibal. Hannibal and Red Dragon are late-60s money grabs; Hannibal didn't work for Bill because Hopkins is much older.
    “Which didn't work for me because he's so much older than he was in Silence of the Lambs, but it's a prequel.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ With Bill Simmons and Van Lathan · 0:17:12 · Bill Simmons (0.75 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Anthony Hopkins → The Silence of the Lambs. Hopkins's Oscar came via Foster and Silence of the Lambs.
    “She won him an Oscar.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:16:43 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. career (career): Anthony Hopkins → Red Dragon. After Hannibal money, Hopkins appeared in Red Dragon, which is a remake of Manhunter but worse, ruining the franchise per his son.
    “And it's just a remake of Manhunter, but worse?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:12:29 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. career (career): Anthony Hopkins → The Silence of the Lambs. The Hannibal series pivoted to a prequel to Silence of the Lambs with an actor decades older.
    “Remake a prequel.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:12:48 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  6. career (career): Anthony Hopkins → Noah. Hopkins in the gravitas role is an uncreative choice, same reaction as in Noah.
    “I had the same reaction when he was in Noah.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Thor · 1:45:28 · David Sims (0.35 sure it was them)

industry (1)

  1. industry (industry): Anthony Hopkins → Tommy Lee Jones. Casting a gravitas-bearing famous actor as the elder is Marvel's repeat playbook, as with Tommy Lee Jones in Captain America.
    “It's also the same thing they did with Tommy Lee Jones and Captain America”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Thor · 0:09:27 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (all-black remake): Byron Allen → Anthony Hopkins. Byron Allen is the pick to play the Hopkins billionaire in an all-black remake.
    “Byron Allen could actually play the part.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ With Bill Simmons and Van Lathan · 1:22:50 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

people (2)

  1. people (writing around an actor): Hannibal → Anthony Hopkins. The book Hannibal set up plastic surgery so a different actor could play Lecter if Hopkins declined.
    “they set up that Hamble Lecter had a lot of plastic surgery done so that they could have a different actor play the role if necessary.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:27:00 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. people (same actor): Bart the Bear → Anthony Hopkins. Hopkins worked with Bart twice, in Legends of the Fall and The Edge.
    “Anthony Hopkins worked with him twice. He worked with them in Legends of the Fall and in this movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ With Bill Simmons and Van Lathan · 0:32:26 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them)

theme (2)

  1. theme (theme): Kathy Bates → Anthony Hopkins. Unknown-actor effect: Hopkins as Lecter worked by changing his look; Bates was an unknown.
    “We knew Anthony Hopkins.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ With Bill Simmons and Brian Koppelman · 0:28:17 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. theme (comparison): Laurence Olivier → Anthony Hopkins. Olivier playing Crassus feels like Hopkins's career phase; also Hopkins later impersonated him for the restoration.
    “oh, Olivier was in the Hopkins phase of his career.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 2:00:51 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (voice replacement): Anthony Hopkins → Spartacus. Olivier was dead for the restoration, so Hopkins impersonated him for the recovered dialogue.
    “Anthony Hopkins impersonated him.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 2:00:39 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

verdict (3)

  1. verdict (verdict): Kathy Bates → Anthony Hopkins. Simmons feels the same way about Hopkins as Lecter: best role for the performer, seen in a theater.
    “I feel the same way about Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ With Bill Simmons and Brian Koppelman · 1:04:24 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. verdict (verdict): The Father → Anthony Hopkins. Hopkins is a near-certain best-actor nominee, but the speaker did not love the film itself.
    “I feel like I'm on an island here with the father.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:35:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  3. verdict (verdict): Anthony Hopkins → The Two Popes. Best actor playing a pope who says 'that's my pizza'; Best orange soda in a film also goes to The Two Popes.
    “Best actor playing a pope who says, hey, that's my pizza is Anthony Hopkins.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:20:37 · Joe Reid (0.40 sure it was them)

what-if (5)

  1. what-if (casting what-if): Harrison Ford → Anthony Hopkins. If Ford had the Hopkins part the film changes because you blindly root for Ford.
    “if Harrison Ford was in the Hopkins spot. First of all, it is, this is a different movie because now I'm rooting for, it's just in, you're blind rooting for Harrison Ford in every movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ With Bill Simmons and Van Lathan · 0:26:03 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. what-if (casting what-if): Jeff Goldblum → Anthony Hopkins. Van suggests Goldblum, a co-star of Pullman in Independence Day, as an offbeat rich guy.
    “I think Jeff Goldblum could have pulled this off in like in a weird, quirky sort of the rich.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ With Bill Simmons and Van Lathan · 0:28:05 · Van Lathan (0.60 sure it was them)
  3. what-if (casting what-if): Dustin Hoffman → Anthony Hopkins. Hoffman turned down the role Hopkins took.
    “So Dustin Hoffman turns down the roll.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ With Bill Simmons and Van Lathan · 1:11:40 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
  4. what-if (casting what-if): Robert De Niro → Anthony Hopkins. De Niro went far down the road for the Hopkins part, including a table read, but kept worrying about the bear.
    “They go really far down the road with De Niro.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ With Bill Simmons and Van Lathan · 1:11:44 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them)
  5. what-if (what-if): Panic Room → Anthony Hopkins. Bill would cast Hopkins as the ex-husband; Jodie owes him, she won him an Oscar.
    “Have him played by Anthony Hopkins.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:16:14 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Anthony Hopkins: The speakers savage Hopkins's Odin beard as fake, and say his set must be an owned medieval backdrop.
    “The fakest fucking beard.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:10:08 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Anthony Hopkins: Hopkins's Twitter: weekend videos at his window and a jazz-dancing clip; they play it live.
    “is actually like one of the great tweeters.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:10:41 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Anthony Hopkins: Hopkins reportedly took Odin because he circled every scene with NAR, no acting required; the bit gets tied to Blank Check's lexicon of River of Ham.
    “I read the script, and every scene, I just circled it and wrote NAR, and I went, I'm on board”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Thor · 0:09:03 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)