Overview
- Hopkins says he will mark 50 years of sobriety in December and continues to attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.
- He recounts a blackout drive from Arizona to Beverly Hills and identifies 11 a.m. on Dec. 29, 1975 as the moment he stopped drinking.
- We Did OK, Kid is due Nov. 4 from Summit Books, offering first-person reflections on his life and career.
- He outlines creative influences behind signature roles, including shaping Hannibal Lecter’s calm from accounts of Joseph Stalin.
- At 87, he says he has more films ahead with no plans to retire, crediting wife Stella Arroyave for helping him maintain his health.