|
Home
Page
> Celebs
> News
05
September 2005
Hopkins Praises
Missing Gwyneth
Sir
Anthony Hopkins has said Gwyneth Paltrow
ranks alongside Jodie Foster as
"spectacular" and "the most brilliant
actress I have ever worked
with".
He was
speaking at Venice Film Festival about his
Proof co-star Paltrow, but she could not
attend after her plane was unable to take
off in New York.
"I've
worked with two great actresses - Jodie
Foster and Gwyneth Paltrow," he told
journalists.
Speaking
via mobile phone, Paltrow said she was
"heartbroken" not to be there.
"I had
an extraordinarily unpleasant evening last
night trying to get there," she
said.
Sir
Anthony, who appeared with the Foster in
1991's Silence of the Lambs, added his
compliments about Paltrow were "not just
giving you the usual actor's charming
answer".
Based on
the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by David
Auburn, Proof sees Paltrow return to a
character she first played on the West End
stage in 2002.
Since
then she has married Coldplay singer Chris
Martin, had a daughter and lost her
father, film director Bruce, to throat
cancer. I feel I came to the film as a
different person," said Paltrow, who fell
pregnant shortly before shooting began.
"When we did the play, my father was alive
and I was single. When it came to the
film, I had lost my father but been
blessed with wonderful things in my
personal life. My father's death gave me
an insight into the reality of death and
grief - and the finality of
it."
Paltrow
said she was initially reluctant to return
to work after giving birth to baby
Apple.
"Once I
had my daughter, I was very reticent to
leave her. I finally went back to work
when she was 10 months old, to do a small
role. It was fantastic and exhilarating,
but I was torn - not being the person to
put my daughter to sleep at
night."
Paltrow
said she chooses her parts more carefully
so she can spend as much time as possible
with her family.
"I can
no longer just pick up and head out to a
remote location. I am looking for roles
that will enrich me as an artist, a person
and a mother."
Sir
Anthony Hopkins told journalists he had
taken more than a year off work before
accepting his role in Proof as a
mathematical genius whose daughter may
have inherited his mental
stability.
"I
accepted because I play an interesting man
- a maths professor who has a complete
mental breakdown," he said.
The
Welsh-born actor, now a US citizen, also
had praise for director John
Madden.
"With
John there's no fuss. He knows exactly
what he wants to do."
The
67-year-old arrived at the press
conference with actor Jake Gyllenhaal, who
plays a former student of Hopkins'
character.
Gyllenhaal
also appears in Ang Lee's western
Brokeback Mountain, which screened at
Venice last Friday.
Return
To News Index
|
