Rangarira ndima iri pasi apa uye ipapo pindura mubvunzo gare gare mumutauro mumwe chetewo sechikamu:  Ndima: Hopkins akanga achitya asati aenda pachikuva, asi kubvira usiku ihwohwo akazorora, achitaura mashoko omudzidzisi wake: "Iye [Olivier] akati: 'Yeuka: kushushikana [sic] kuzvikudza <unk> uri kushamisika kuti vanhu vanofungei nezvako; kugehena navo, ingosvetuka kubva kumucheto<unk>. Zano rakanaka chaizvo. Pasinei nokubudirira kwake paNational, Hopkins akaneta nokudzokorora mabasa mamwe chetewo usiku hwoga hwoga uye akashuva kuva mumafirimu. Akaita kutanga kwake kwechidzitiro chidiki mu1967 BBC nhepfenyuro yeA Flea in Her Ear. Basa rake rokutanga mufirimu rakauya muna 1964 muChanges, pfupi pfupi yakatungamirirwa naDrewe Henley, yakanyorwa uye yakabudiswa naJames Scott uye yakatarisana naJacqueline Pearce. Muna 1968, akawana mukana wake muThe Lion in Winter achitamba Richard the Lionheart. Kunyange zvazvo Hopkins akapfuurira mumitambo (kunyanya muNational Theatre saLambert Le Roux muPravda naDavid Hare naHoward Brenton uye saAntony muAntony naCleopatra pakatarisana naJudi Dench pamwe nekugadzirwa kweBroadway kwaPeter Shaffer's Equus) zvishoma nezvishoma akafamba kubva pairi kuti ave akasimbiswa zvikuru semuterevhizheni uye mutambi wemufirimu. Akaratidza Charles Dickens mufirimu reBBC terevhizheni The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens muna 1970, uye Pierre Bezukhov muBBC mini series War and Peace (1972). Achizviitira zita semutambi wemufirimu, muna 1972 akatamba semutungamiriri wezvematongerwo enyika weBritish David Lloyd George muYoung Winston, uye muna 1977 akatamba mukuru wemauto eBritish John Frost muFirimu reWorld War II-A Bridge Too Far. Mafirimu ose ari maviri aya akatungamirirwa naRichard Attenborough, uyo akarondedzera Hopkins se "asina mubvunzo mutambi mukuru wechizvarwa chake". Muna 1978 akatamba mufirimu rinotyisa repfungwa rinonzi Magic pamusoro padhimoni remutambi wemukati. Muna 1980, akaita nyeredzi muThe Elephant Man sachiremba wechiChirungu Sir Frederick Treves, uyo anobata Joseph Merrick (akaratidzwa naJohn Hurt), murume akaremara zvakanyanya muzana ramakore rechi19 London. Gore iroro iyewo akabata nyeredzi pakatarisana naShirley MacLaine muA Change of Seasons uye akakurumbira akati "iye ndiye mutambi anonyanya kuvenga wandati ndamboshanda naye". Muna 1983, Hopkinswo...  Mubvunzo: Ndiani aida kuva mumafirimu?
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