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!
I hear he still enjoys a nice Chianti.
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.
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.
Irons is married since 1978 to actress Sinead Cusack.
43 years of marriage is a LONG time, in that industry.
Good for them.
Better late than never!
Must be true love.
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
Shadowlands (1993)
:-)
I almost equated it to that.
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).
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.
Truer than most in that industry, for sure 💕
yeah, wow, thats almost two years ago
funny how hollywood doesn’t cover this kind of stuff about celebrities
“The Shadowlands”
“The Shadowlands”
One of the greatest actors I’ve seen in my lifetime.
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 “.
Ditto.
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