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Actor Sir Anthony Hopkins Turns from Alcoholism & Atheism, Becomes A Christian
God Updates ^ | Jan 14, 2019 | Mel Johnson

Posted on 11/06/2021 6:53:47 PM PDT by Fai Mao

No matter how successful someone may seem from the outside, we all have our own internal struggles. During the earlier years of Anthony Hopkins’ career, he found himself in his own battle with alcoholism.

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Anthony’s addiction started “innocently.” He adopted a worldly mindset and drank because “that's what you do in theater, you drink."

But as is the case too often, the social pastime soon took over his life. By 1975, Anthony’s drinking had spiraled out of control.

"I was hell-bent on destruction," the award-winning actor recalled. "It was like being possessed by a demon, an addiction, and I couldn't stop. And there are millions of people around like that.”

But it’s in our weakest moments that God’s strength works best!


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Not a recent article but a neat testimony
1 posted on 11/06/2021 6:53:47 PM PDT by Fai Mao
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To: Fai Mao

I hear he still enjoys a nice Chianti.


2 posted on 11/06/2021 6:57:42 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Alec Baldwin has killed more people than the Jan 6 protesters. And he will serve less jail time.)
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Legendary Irish actor, Cyril Cusack, became a campaigner for conservative causes in Ireland, notably in his opposition to abortion.

Regarding his Catholic faith, he insightfully commented: “Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.”

SIL, renowned actor, Jeremy Irons, also a Catholic said, “The church is right, abortion is a sin”........(while affirming women’s rights for public consumption).

Irons is married since 1978 to actress Sinead Cusack.


3 posted on 11/06/2021 6:59:00 PM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side does n't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Fai Mao
That's an amazing testimony, the power of God's Grace is more powerful than the worst sinner.

Sir Anthony is one of my all-time favorite actors, a brilliant man's career and in his weakness he turned to the Great Healer.

4 posted on 11/06/2021 7:01:16 PM PDT by PROCON (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Liz

Irons is married since 1978 to actress Sinead Cusack.


43 years of marriage is a LONG time, in that industry.

Good for them.


5 posted on 11/06/2021 7:01:21 PM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12 )
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To: Fai Mao

Better late than never!


6 posted on 11/06/2021 7:02:16 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Balloting)
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To: Jane Long

Must be true love.


7 posted on 11/06/2021 7:05:54 PM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side does n't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Fai Mao

What was the movie where he played C.S. Lewis? The Remains of the Day.

“I believe in Christianity as I believe the sun has risen. Not because I can see it, but because by way of it, I can see everything else.” - C. S. Lewis


8 posted on 11/06/2021 7:06:15 PM PDT by cotton1706
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To: Jane Long
43 Hollywood years is over 300 human years. Not bad.

9 posted on 11/06/2021 7:08:13 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: cotton1706

Shadowlands (1993)


10 posted on 11/06/2021 7:10:17 PM PDT by xp38
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To: BitWielder1

:-)

I almost equated it to that.


11 posted on 11/06/2021 7:11:00 PM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12 )
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To: Fai Mao

He talks about this a bit in a CBS piece about his movie The Two Popes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGHjcHilc1A . I noticed the reporter kind of sneers towards the end when she asks if he thinks it was “divine intervention” that led him away from drinking.

I know he has in the past talked about uncertainties he still feels about religion and pretty much everything, but he seems to be finding his way forward in the right direction. And he’s done a fair number of religious films too: Peter and Paul (he played the Apostle Paul), Shadowlands (a very moving film), The Rite, Noah (unfortunately w/ a lot of made up stuff), and The Two Popes (heavily biased in favor of Pope Francis, but more sympathetic than I expected about Pope Benedict).


12 posted on 11/06/2021 7:21:07 PM PDT by FenwickBabbitt
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To: Liz

Cyril Cusack was great. Loved his work as “Control” in The Spy Who Came in From the Cold. He was also wonderful as a traditionalist monk in the movie “Catholics” with Martin Sheen.


13 posted on 11/06/2021 7:23:29 PM PDT by irishjuggler
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To: Liz

Truer than most in that industry, for sure 💕


14 posted on 11/06/2021 7:50:37 PM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12 )
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To: Fai Mao

yeah, wow, thats almost two years ago

funny how hollywood doesn’t cover this kind of stuff about celebrities


15 posted on 11/06/2021 8:23:09 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: cotton1706

“The Shadowlands”


16 posted on 11/06/2021 8:46:10 PM PDT by Fai Mao (I don't think we have enough telephone poles., )
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To: cotton1706

“The Shadowlands”


17 posted on 11/06/2021 8:46:15 PM PDT by Fai Mao (I don't think we have enough telephone poles., )
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To: PROCON

One of the greatest actors I’ve seen in my lifetime.


18 posted on 11/06/2021 8:47:04 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: FenwickBabbitt

I like the list, though I have yet to nor will I watch “Noah”. IMHO from what I have read, it is blasphemous in its “artistic license “.


19 posted on 11/06/2021 8:47:50 PM PDT by Spacetrucker (George Washington didn't use his freedom of speech to defeat the British - HE SHOT THEM .. WITH GUNS)
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To: Jamestown1630

Ditto.


20 posted on 11/06/2021 8:48:11 PM PDT by Spacetrucker (George Washington didn't use his freedom of speech to defeat the British - HE SHOT THEM .. WITH GUNS)
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