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 Sir Anthony Hopkins
Interview By: Michael Dance
Most everyone knows Sir Anthony Hopkins the movie star, the Oscar-winning actor who embodied both Hannibal Lecter and Richard Nixon. Few people know him as a man who spends his spare time trying to figure out the universe. In a short half hour, he philosophized about everything from the nature of time to the pointlessness of acting. Of course, much of this probably has to do with his mind-bending new film, Slipstream, a fractured, nonsensical tale that might be about an aging screenwriter losing his mind. Or it might be about a film shoot that's falling apart. Or it might be about two criminals and the staff of a diner in the desert trying to escape from Death. Or it might be about all of those things. Hopkins wrote, directed, and stars in the film. "I didn't write it for any major purpose, to make a statement or even write a good script, because you know, I'm not a writer," he says. "It came at a time four years ago, my mother had just died, she was 89, she died when I was in California. It made me think about life a little...and my wife said, 'why don't you just write a screenplay?' And I wasn't in any mood to work much as an actor, but I've had a great life doing it, so I said, 'Why would I want to write a script?' And she said, 'Well go on, you can write one. Just for the fun of it.' So I did it. I wrote it as an experiment, and not having anything to win or lose - what, can they arrest me if I don't write a good script? - I started on Scene 1. And then Scene 2. And then Scene 3 and I though, well, interesting, where's this going?" Turns out he didn't really even have to answer that. "There was no design to it. There was a little bit. I wanted to go off on tangents, I wanted to make it without construction, and I wanted to I had an itch to do something some years ago with ideas about films just to put odd little flash cuts in scenes with no explanation." He curls his mouth with faint disgust at that last word. "Everybody wants an explanation for everything, you hear 'How did you arrive at that choice?' Especially with students. 'Can you explain that choice?' Why do you have to explain everything? So I thought, well I'll do things without explanation. Because it's all illogical." The nonlinear, dream-like state the movie took began to mirror Hopkins's own take on life itself. "It suits my philosophy because I believe that life is an illusion anyway," he says matter-of-factly. "I've had that feeling for years and years and I can't explain why I'm here or any of us are here, and my life |
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