{"id":418339,"date":"2011-05-06T01:37:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T01:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/06\/anthony-hopkins-sir-anthony-hopkins-encouraged-branagh-to-portray-olivier\/"},"modified":"2011-05-06T01:37:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T01:37:00","slug":"anthony-hopkins-sir-anthony-hopkins-encouraged-branagh-to-portray-olivier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/06\/anthony-hopkins-sir-anthony-hopkins-encouraged-branagh-to-portray-olivier\/","title":{"rendered":"ANTHONY HOPKINS &#8211; SIR ANTHONY HOPKINS ENCOURAGED BRANAGH TO PORTRAY OLIVIER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Caption: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.contactmusic.com\/photos.nsf\/main\/anthony-hopkins-los-angeles-premiere-of-thor-held-at-the-el-capitan_3322119\">Anthony Hopkins (Picture)<\/a> Los Angeles premiere of &#8216;Thor&#8217; held at the El Capitan Theatre &#8211; Arrivals Hollywood, California&#8230;.<\/p>\n<div property=\"dc:description\" readability=\"38\"><span id=\"intelliTxt\"\/><\/p>\n<div readability=\"21\"><span id=\"intelliTxt\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span>Sir Anthony Hopkins gave his Thor director Kenneth Branagh the confidence to portray acting great Lord Olivier on the big screen by telling the star all about his encounters with the legend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Branagh was mulling over the idea of playing Olivier opposite Michelle Williams in My Week With Marilyn as he shot Thor &#8211; and he couldn&#8217;t decide whether it was something he could pull off.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"intelliTxt\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span>He says, &#8220;Tony had worked with Olivier himself. (He) knew him well, and had many war stories, many intimate observations of the way Olivier was, and that, to some extent, gave me the confidence to try and do it.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>More:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.contactmusic.com\/news.nsf\/story\/sir-anthony-hopkins-encouraged-branagh-to-portray-olivier_1217060\" title=\"ANTHONY HOPKINS - SIR ANTHONY HOPKINS ENCOURAGED BRANAGH TO PORTRAY OLIVIER\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ANTHONY HOPKINS &#8211; SIR ANTHONY HOPKINS ENCOURAGED BRANAGH TO PORTRAY OLIVIER<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Caption: Anthony Hopkins (Picture) Los Angeles premiere of &#8216;Thor&#8217; held at the El Capitan Theatre &#8211; Arrivals Hollywood, California&#8230;. Sir Anthony Hopkins gave his Thor director Kenneth Branagh the confidence to portray acting great Lord Olivier on the big screen by telling the star all about his encounters with the legend. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>ANTHONY HOPKINS - SIR ANTHONY HOPKINS ENCOURAGED BRANAGH TO PORTRAY OLIVIER - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/06\/anthony-hopkins-sir-anthony-hopkins-encouraged-branagh-to-portray-olivier\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"ANTHONY HOPKINS - SIR ANTHONY HOPKINS ENCOURAGED BRANAGH TO PORTRAY OLIVIER - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Caption: Anthony Hopkins (Picture) Los Angeles premiere of &#039;Thor&#039; held at the El Capitan Theatre - Arrivals Hollywood, California.... 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