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Hopkins new film "best ever"

Fri 23 Sep 5:30 PM

Sir Anthony Hopkins is telling the world that his latest film is the best he's ever done.

The Welsh knight, who has played such monsters as Hannibal Lecter, Hitler and Richard Nixon told Evening Standard, "I started laughing when I read the script for The World's Fastest Indian. I thought, this is no way for a 67-year-old man to behave!"

He plays Burt Munro, a 63 year-old New Zealander who broke the world landspeed record in Utah in 1970 with a 40 year-old motorcycle he'd spent decades fine-tuning. The record still stands today.

Hopkins also admits, after making the film, that directing is harder than it looks. Of director Roger Donaldson, he said, "I've worked with a lot of top directors but Roger's the best. He's like John Huston. He's tough; he's different. I like that. It shakes me out of my kind of British thing that I've done so well."