Why Anthony Hopkins Is Done with Hannibal Lecter | Late Night with Conan O’Brien

thanks so much for being here good good to be here you know there's so much to talk about but just coming off of that clip I'm watching you obviously you're a fantastic actor but I'm I'm focused on the eyes you have the ability to to to portray Madness with your just the eyes alone I look in those eyes and I think this man's insane this man you are okay I am you are a dangerously insane look at that that's man those are some peepers you have there I the only way I can convey that is to cross my eyes sort of like this that's good my my Hannibal would have crossed eyes and be stumbling into things a lot and that was good it was good oh wow good praise from on high really good you have now more leverage than any actor I can think of in Hollywood because if they want to make a Hannibal Lecter movie they have to come to you and it's such a profitable franchise at this point has it become a franchise I don't know well it's uh I mean you've now this is the third one you've made and you if you give them a hard time and ask for a lot of money they can't go to William Shatner and say I mean maybe they could and I'd kind of like to see that myself but it wouldn't be the same beat me up exactly right he could escape from the cell more easily I could um well you know I I don't know if they want to do another one but uh I doubt it there is talk of doing another one but I think my personal feeling about it is the third is the last and it's a good you know it's a such a good movie this one and uh the trilogy is a kind of magic number and to do another one is just Overkill and it's greedy I think now but what if five years go by and they come to you and they say okay here's the deal 600 million dollars and your own your own island off Greece oh then of course and it's a musical yeah musical a musical only if I play a vegetarian this time it becomes a vegetarian he lives on Broccoli so he terrifies plants and that's it yeah plants now you feel for father beans this way because that one Chomps on them much that's you just described the least scary Hannibal Lecter movie I can think of we've got to protect our Bean fields Lecter may come down and eat them you um you're crazy you know that yeah yeah that's been often I've done the Emmy Awards oh thank you well a little thing I do every now and then thank you oh snow that's crazy uh thank you for reading that off a cue card uh do I get paid for that yeah sure you sure do you know you I don't you can tell when you see the movies but uh you you keep yourself in fantastic shape yeah well a tattoo yeah I do most of the time what do you uh what do you do well I run for about a treadmill about for about an hour five times a week and I train with weights not too much but and the food is the hardest I love bread and all that so I give all that stuff up and I try anyway David gets good good cookies in The Green Room there so I I fell apart chocolate chip cookies wow you really when people in Hollywood talk about an actor falling apart it doesn't usually mean they had two chocolate chip cookies that's gonna be that's gonna be an Inquirer now Anthony Hopkins loses his mind has two cookies um becomes a cookie freak that's the next lecture he becomes he just wants cookies these are terrible terrible ideas but you know I am impressed because I thought you you're being modest about it you say you lift some weights I got this calendar of Hollywood hunks and you're in the February and I don't know if you've seen this but it's fairly impressive that's me that's that's you right there it's incredible I had no idea took me five weeks to get like five weeks five weeks there's something called Static training this piece of advice you go into a gym and you get a very heavy weight and you just hold it for 15 seconds or 20 seconds the maximum weight you can manage put it down and then whatever you do about six different versions of arms and then you don't need to go to the gym anymore it's called Static contacts wait you do that once and you never have to go again oh what's 77 days every seven days yeah because I seized on the you never have to go again but and it works it is fantastic have you tried it so it's holding the weight in one place and just making the muscle sure because that's one of those pull down lights on the machine uh sit-ups you know with weights and you hold it for 15 seconds 20 seconds maximum and you don't do anymore for eight days because if you do it you undo the process and you actually gain muscle mass and by that process you burn up more energy it's a fantastic way and I discovered it uh a few months ago and is this going to be on your exercise video that's coming out again my Jane Fonder is it you any unitard with egg warmers Richard Simmons yeah oh good lord [Applause] you are I've heard that you're playing you're going to play Superman's father in the next Superman movie yeah Brett Ratner who directed uh red dragon yeah these are obviously I I'm you're up to it if anyone is but this is stepping into Marlon Brando was the last one to play Superman's uh father that's very nice oh I'll be playing Super Daddy Super Daddy I don't know I don't know who's playing my song I think it's going to be a girl all this time it's gonna be Supergirl Supergirl that's very good I've heard I don't know if it's true but I'm gonna take a shot I've been told that you do a a passable Woody Allen impression see my God I mean it's such a genius what am I gonna do laughs it's so strange coming from you it works but it's just it's I would never imagine in a million years that you could do a Woody Allen Embrace he played he was up for Helena the first time really Woody Allen was can I erase my God she's so vulnerable [Laughter] I don't want to eat anyone quite a different movie yeah uh red dragon opens Friday it is always a thrill when you stop by thank you so much he's the best Anthony Hopkins David Allen career coming up we'll take a break we'll be right back

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Length: 6min 42sec (402 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 23 2023