Anthony Hopkins saying that Kathy Bates in Misery gave the best performance he’s ever seen.
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Anthony Hopkins saying that Kathy Bates in Misery gave the best performance he’s ever seen.
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The movie came out two years before I was born. I didn’t get to see it until I was like 13, so I knew Kathy Bates from like the water boy and other stuff. When I first saw the movie she was the number 1 thing that sticks out. I’ts such a layered and powerful performance that takes you on a ride. You feel bad for her then you see how much of a sick fuck she really is and then you feel bad for her again. As a Stephen King fan, I’ve been meaning to read the book, but Bates for sure gave one of the best performances of all time.
At that time he hadn’t seen Bryan Cranston’s acting though.
Very cool!
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It is deeply upsetting, a testament to her talents. I think Patricia Arquette is channeling something similar in Severance.
high praise coming from the guy that lost his girlfriend because Hannibal Lecter was too creepy
That’s not what he said. He said she was the best “mad actor” he’d ever seen. She played the best insane person he’d ever seen.
Bates was amazing in the role of Annie Wilks. Misery is one of my favorite King books, and the movie was just as great.
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James Caan was outstanding also. He played off her very well especially for a character who spends most of his time in bed or in a chair reacting to the insanity of the situation he’s found himself in.
For me, it’s gotta be either Matthew Mcconaughey in True Detective, Bill Hader in Barry, or Aaron Paul in Breaking Bad. All three of these guys were not on my radar for excellent performance, and completely won me over with their work.
I still think of Matthew’s monologue sometimes, and that includes today. That line popped into my head this morning for no specific reason. “It was all the same dream. A dream that you had inside a locked room. A dream of being a person.” Magnificent writing and acting.
Now that I think about it, Meryl Streep in Doubt is still my favorite of her roles in an already prolific career. Damnit, picking one actor is impossible for me, lol. There really is excellence all over the place, if one is willing to find it.
The fact that a guy as old and prestigious as Anthony Hopkins gave arguably the best performance of his career last year, and honestly one of the best in movie history, is a testament to that man’s ability
I’ve seen misery so many times, and every time, I’m on the edge of my seat as if I’ve never seen it before.
He’s biased. She literally handed him his first Oscar.
It’s a worthwhile regard but even this clip of the interview is much more than that, as is usually with Anthony Hopkins, thanks for sharing it!
He said the same thing about Bryan Cranston in breaking bad
It’s the scariest movie I have ever seen.
She’s so fucking unsettling in that movie, in a way that feels very real. Haven’t seen the movie in probably at least 20 years but it used to play often on TV when I was a teenager.
Maybe I’ll have to watch it again.
In the book she cuts his foot off but in the movie she “hobbles” him. I always found the act of hobbling so much worse than just cutting off someones foot. That’s easy, but to hobble someone in such a creative and absolutely brutal way was just so good.
Specifically the “best mad performance”
Clearly filmed before attack of the clones and revenge of the sith aye?
How old is Anthony Hopkins????
And then, later in his career, he would be in a Transformers movie that implied that *Harriet Tubman worked with Transformers.*
Which is.. just something I can’t forget. I adore the man and I don’t think it cheapens his other roles, but that is quite the story to have to share on screen.
He’s her biggest fan!
Didn’t he later state that Bryan Cranston’s performance in Breaking Bad, specifically the episode where Walt is trying to get his family out and Skylar tells him she gave their money to Ted so Walt goes from screaming to laughing, was the best performance he’d ever seen?
[He also loved the Exorcist. Marvellous.](https://youtu.be/V_N8HjC-qBU)
Title is wrong. He said she gave the best MAD acting performance he’d ever seen.
And then Bryan Cranston apparently became the best performance that he’s ever seen
This interview was from the early 90’s. Since then Hopkins wrote a letter to Bryan Cranston saying that his work in Breaking Bad was the best acting he has ever seen. Sorry, Kathy!
Obviously he didn’t see David Schwimmer in Flight of the Intruder.
Didn’t he say the same about Cranston in BB
Just found out Anthony Hopkins is not American, woosh.
His mention of Kathy is by far the least interesting part of that clip.
I know I’ll get a smartass reply to this question that will make me reconsider, but remind me again how Dick Cavett had an interview show for decades? Dude is wet toast filling a cheap suit.
So Annie Wilkes and Walter White are his favourite performances. No wonder he did well as Hannibal Lecter.
No he didn’t. Good interview, though. Thanks for posting.
Is there a classier guy out there?
My parents were very loose about what age I should be to watch the different movies and such. So I weren’t very old when I saw Misery. I’ve probably 11-12 years old. I had that time already watched movies like Alien and Predator but I weren’t really scared of those monsters because they were awesome and all that … and then Annie Wilkes. That character was like the nightmare every person can turn into if they succumb to that deep maelstrom of darkness and madness that resides in every person that we try to steer away from with our logical thoughts and conscience. Annie is truly a monster and monster in sheep (human) clothing at that.
But the worst (and by that the best) part is Annie’s drive and that her monster comes from within – from a place of humanity. We kinda understand her psychopathic thought pattern but as rational people we have denied that side of us to be upstanding and be accepted in modern human society. Annie Wilkes is the human who jumped into the for mentioned maelstrom and decided to drown with it. Turning into a mad entity. A very realistic monster.
Simply put … Annie Wilkes is so simple but yet brilliant written. And Kathy Bates was the right actress for that character’s madness.
I was scared for elderly ladies for like 2 months afterwards.
She did the part well for sure!
He more recently stated that breaking bad is the best acting he’s ever seen
Bates in any movie is best! She is formidable.
Hes a man of taste and culture
Then Breaking Bad happened.