Sir Antony Hopkins made headlines in April after he failed to show up at The Oscars to collect the Best Actor gong he was awarded for his appearance in The Father.
But speaking on Lorraine on Tuesday, the iconic actor, 83, revealed that he didn t expect to win, explaining: The contender was Chadwick Boseman, so I went to bed.
Appearing alongside The Father director Florian Zeller, the screen star continued: Well what happened very briefly: I didn t expect to get it, at all. My phone went, and it was a text from my agent saying you ve won the Oscar at about 5 o clock in the morning.
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Piers Morgan with Donald Trump. Photograph: Mathew Imaging/WireImage
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Another string to Trevor Peacock’s versatile bow (Obituary, 9 March) was his ability as a screenwriter, demonstrated just once, sadly, with the admirably bleak He Who Rides a Tiger, an underrated British film noir from 1965. Peacock’s screenplay was loosely based on the exploits of Britain’s most notorious cat burglar, Peter Gulston. While researching his script, Peacock was apparently invited to go on a “job” by Gulston, but wisely declined.
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A sparrowhawk’s actions in the country diary column leave one reader choking on their breakfast. Photograph: Attila Kovács/EPA
A sparrowhawk’s actions in the country diary column leave one reader choking on their breakfast. Photograph: Attila Kovács/EPA
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Each day, at breakfast, I turn first to your wonderful country diary column to provide cheerful sustenance against the unremitting gloom to follow elsewhere. Sadly, Nic Wilson’s dramatic account (1 February) of the kingfisher being taken by a sparrowhawk, following its own hunt, had just the opposite effect. Friends of the three-spined stickleback may feel that justice was done, but I’m still choking on my cornflakes and coffee.
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