Very Cool: Photo of Sir Anthony Hopkins as Alfred Hitchcock
Hat tip: Vulture.
From the LA Times in April:
The Fox Searchlight production, which could be ready by year’s end, stars Anthony Hopkins as Hitchcock and Helen Mirren as his wife and creative collaborator, Alma Reville. The cast includes Jessica Biel as Vera Miles, Scarlett Johansson as Janet Leigh and James D’Arcy as Anthony Perkins. It is the first narrative feature directed by screenwriter and documentary filmmaker Sacha Gervasi (“Anvil! The Story of Anvil”).
Hopkins’ transformation, accomplished with the help of prosthetic makeup by Howard Berger and Peter Montagna and a fat suit from costume designer Julie Weiss that turns the slim Hopkins into a 300-pound giant, is not intended to hide the Oscar-winning actor completely.
“We don’t want Anthony Hopkins to disappear under the makeup,” Gervasi, who co-wrote Steven Spielberg’s “The Terminal,” said during a break in filming. “And we don’t want him to sound exactly like Hitchcock, either. That wasn’t the point.”
“”When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, ‘It’s in the script.’ If he says, ‘But what’s my motivation?, ‘ I say, ‘Your salary.’” Alfred Hitchcock.
Funny that’s Hopkins’ own take on acting too – “it’s all in the script”.
Love the old man pants. I’ve always wondered how the human body can change so markedly with age that one’s pants are hitched up to the chest. I haven’t reached that stage of decrepitude yet, and hope I never will.
I think of Jeff Daniels as Gen. George Washington in made-for-TV movie “The Crossing” about the crossing of the Delaware and the Battle of Trenton.
He made no attempt to look like GW, he just interpreted the character as best he could and did a pretty good job, methinks.
Good Eeeevening!
Notice how the corner of the trailer is supported by a tire-changing jack on top of a pole? That thing is likely to collapse as soon as someone takes a step inside. What kind of dangerous operation are they running there?