Music often helps me find a way into roles. I listened to Copland all the time when preparing to play Richard Nixon on film.Listening to a pinko composer to portray a red-baiting politico! Interesting.... But on the other hand, maybe Hopkins is getting to the heart of Nixon's self-delusion. Mightn't Tricky Dick have styled himself a Coplandesque American folk hero? In related news, Sly Stallone—not to be outdone—now claims that he listened to nothing but old Nixon speeches during the filming of CopLand.
Saturday, January 3, 2009
Nixon in Nixon
Sir Anthony Hopkins, in the latest Gramophone:
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Sir A.H. can be a bit of a trickster. I'd like to think he was listening to Vitebsk.
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