Source : PERTHNOW NEWS
Sir Anthony Hopkins revisits his old neighbourhood in Wales via Google Maps.
The 88-year-old actor has lived in the US for decades – but Anthony still loves to remind himself of where he grew up in Wales.
He told ITV News: “I go to streets and move up the street, the photographs of my streets in Wales … I’m always going back there.”
Anthony believes he’s a “bit too old” to return to Margam, Port Talbot now. But he still loves to reminisce about his childhood.
The acclaimed actor said: “I love going back to the streets.
“Now time is running out.
“I wish I could just get out and walk around but I’m getting a bit too old for that. But I’m always going back there … most days I’m back there somehow.”
As a young man, Anthony attended the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff because it had a music school. And even now, the Oscar-winning actor is amazed by his own career arc.
He said: “A few years later, I was in a film with Peter O’Toole and Audrey Hepburn. It doesn’t make any sense at all.”
Despite achieving fame and success in Hollywood, Anthony previously confessed to lacking “discipline” during his days as a young theatre actor.
The movie star also explained that he had a “Welsh temperament” during his younger years.
Anthony – who received a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth in 1993 – recalled: “When I was at the National all those years ago, I knew I had something in me, but I didn’t have the discipline.
“I had a Welsh temperament and didn’t have that ‘fitting in’ mechanism. Derek Jacobi, who is wonderful, had it, but I didn’t.
“I would fight, I would rebel. I thought, ‘Well, I don’t belong here.’ And for almost 50 years afterwards, I felt that edge of, ‘I don’t belong anywhere, I’m a loner.’ I don’t have any friends who are actors at all.
“But in ‘The Dresser’, when Ian [McKellen] responded, it was wonderful. We got on so well and I suddenly felt at home, as though that lack of belonging was all in my imagination, all in my vanity.”
