[escapefromboston]

I liked Brian Cox’s Hannibal but Anthony was perfect.

[desertsolitaire]

‘Manhunter’ is sorely underrated. And Brian Cox is an acting treasure as well as Hopkins.

[CaptainK]

“Anthony Hopkins had actually given up on the idea of a movie career and was back in London doing theatre.”

Fresh out of high school, I saw Hopkins give his penultimate Broadway performance in Equus in 1974. It was a Saturday matinee. I've seen a lot of Broadway shows and many well knows actors since then but he stands above everyone I've seen. In person he was hypnotic.

I was positive he was going to be an acting superstar. However, I watched him laboring for years in some good productions and many stinkers. In 1991 I was pleasantly surprised to see a poster for "Silence of the Lambs" in a movie lobby with Hopkins face prominently displayed. I had no idea what the movie was about or what his role was and never thought this was the role that would finally propel him the to stature I believed was inevitable. I didn't think it would take 15 years.