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Reflecting on his early career, Hopkins, who is nominated for a Golden Globe for his role in The Father, told the publication: Booze is a wonderful way of checking out. It has an instant effect - that s why we do it. In my case I had these peculiar conflicts - I didn t feel I fitted into my own skin. I felt deeply guilty and ashamed and not worthy of the luck I d had as an actor.
Fame: The Oscar-winning star, 83, who started his career on stage before soaring to fame in the 1968 movie The Lion In Winter (pictured in 1968 film still), has reflected on his 45 years of sobriety and life in a new candid interview
Does Anthony Hopkins agony over 20-year rift with daughter lie behind his most powerful role for years? Actor s raw portrayal of dementia-stricken man in The Father sparks questions
Anthony Hopkins plays opposite Olivia Colman in the £18m drama, which critics have likened to a horror film
The 82-year-old actor has often spoken about drawing on his own family history to infuse his best-known roles
But this performance as an embattled father raging against his offspring is, perhaps, his most poignant
Hopkins has been estranged from his own daughter Abigail, a 52-year-old singer, for more than two decades