‘there’s a bit of faking it until you make it’

Acting is a family business for the towering Swede, but his own path to the top has been anything but conventional

THE INTREPID STAR ON HIS STORIED CAREER

Sitting on a throne making the Churchill ‘V’ in London. Calling Sue Barker ‘Susan’ at the Sports Personality of the Year awards. Sticking his tongue out during the national anthem in Rio. Getting off

As a child, I was very creative and always drawing, painting or making a mess at the dinner table, but my other love was theatre. I was a dancer and performer first, but as a person of colour, I didn’

I WAS lonely. Papa was a preacher and we lived and travelled in a painted wooden wagon, pulled by Jessie, a large and docile shire horse. We had few possessions; there was no room for what Papa called

In a candid chat ahead of the release of his memoir We Did OK, Kid , actor, artist and composer Sir Anthony Hopkins reveals how his tough childhood and long battle with alcoholism formed the contented, joyful man he is today