The Academy Award-winning actor Anthony Hopkins talks to “The Interview” host David Marchese about his storied career, including how he created iconic characters like Hannibal Lecter in “The Silence of the Lambs.” Hopkins’s new memoir, “We Did OK, Kid,” dives into the actor’s tough upbringing in Wales, his estrangement from his only child and the epiphany that led him to quit drinking. Now 87, Hopkins shares how he’s wrestling with life’s big questions.

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