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In memoir Anthony Hopkins covers his personal struggles, mortality and how he did as actor
In We Did OK, Kid, actor, 87, delves into his Welsh childhood, his battle with drinking and how he became sober, and ‘fear of getting hurt’
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Welsh actor Anthony Hopkins will have a memoir out this autumn, its title inspired by a childhood picture.
We Did OK, Kid will be published on November 4 by Summit Books, a division of publishing house Simon & Schuster.
“There is a photograph I keep on my phone of my father and me on the beach when I was a child. I often tell that boy: ‘We did OK, kid,’” the Oscar-winning actor said.
“I wonder how a boy from Wales, the son of a baker, got here. My entire life is a great mystery. This book is my story.”
Hopkins, 87, is known for such films as The Silence of the Lambs, The Father, The Remains of the Day and The Lion in Winter. According to Summit, he will write about his childhood in Wales, his stage career and his personal struggles, including how his drinking destroyed his first marriage, and how he has remained sober for nearly half a century.
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