The actor celebrated the anniversary with a video on Twitter, in which he talked about his difficult past
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“I’m not a moralist but I had a message, a little voice saying to me, ‘Do you want to live or die?’ – continued the actor – and I told myself that I wanted to live. Suddenly I felt relief and my life was extraordinary “. Hopkins also admits he has bad moments, but he invites everyone to stay positive, to resist and to be brave. “
When Hopkins said enough of alcohol in 1975 he had just come out of a rather stormy personal period. In 1972 he divorced his wife, actress Petronella Barker, with whom he had a daughter, Abigail, born in 1968. At that time Hopkins was a fairly successful actor, with a dozen films behind him, the most important of which was was, in 1968, “The Winter Lion”. Between 1974 and 1977 his career then stopped to resume with a steady rise (“Elephant Man”, “The Bounty”, “84 Charing Cross Road”) which would have reached its peak in 1991, with the interpretation of Hannibal Lecter in “The Silence of the Lambs”, which would have placed him by right in the Olympus of the most esteemed and most successful actors.
