Rịba ama amaokwu a dị n'okpuru ma zaa ajụjụ ahụ mgbe e mesịrị n'otu asụsụ ahụ dị ka amaokwu ahụ:  Passage: Hopkins na-echegbu onwe ya tupu ọ banye n'elu ikpo okwu, mana kemgbe abalị ahụ ọ gbasiri ike, na-ehota onye nkụzi ya: "Ọ [Olivier] kwuru: 'Cheta: akwara bụ [sic] efu <unk> ị na-eche ihe ndị mmadụ na-eche banyere gị; na hel na ha, dị nnọọ na-awụlikwa elu na nsọtụ<unk>. Ọ bụ ezigbo ndụmọdụ. <unk> N'agbanyeghi ihe ịga nke ọma ya na National, ike gwụrụ Hopkins ikwughachi otu ọrụ ahụ kwa abalị ma na-achọsi ike ịnọ na fim. O mere ihe nkiri mbụ ya na obere ihe nkiri na 1967 BBC na-agbasa ozi nke A Flea in Her Ear. Ọrụ mbụ ya na ihe nkiri bịara na 1964 na Mgbanwe, obere ihe nkiri nke Drewe Henley duziri, nke James Scott dere ma mepụta ya na Jacqueline Pearce. N'afọ 1968, o nwetara ohere ya na The Lion in Winter na-egwu Richard the Lionheart. Ọ bụ ezie na Hopkins gara n'ihu n'ụlọ ihe nkiri (nke kachasị ama na National Theatre dị ka Lambert Le Roux na Pravda nke David Hare na Howard Brenton na dị ka Antony na Antony na Cleopatra na-emegide Judi Dench nakwa na mmepụta Broadway nke Peter Shaffer's Equus) ọ jiri nwayọọ nwayọọ si na ya pụọ ka ọ bụrụ onye a kwadoro dị ka onye na-eme ihe nkiri na ihe nkiri. O gosipụtara Charles Dickens na ihe nkiri telivishọn BBC The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens na 1970, na Pierre Bezukhov na obere usoro BBC Agha na Udo (1972). Na-eme aha maka onwe ya dị ka onye na-eme ihe nkiri, na 1972 ọ gbara dị ka onye ndọrọ ndọrọ ọchịchị Britain bụ David Lloyd George na Young Winston, na 1977 ọ gbara onye isi ndị agha Britain bụ John Frost na World War II-set film A Bridge Too Far. Ihe nkiri abụọ a bụ Richard Attenborough duziri, onye kọwara Hopkins dị ka <unk>n'enweghị obi abụọ ọ bụla na ọ bụ onye omee kachasị ukwuu n'ọgbọ ya<unk>. N'afọ 1978, ọ gbara na ihe nkiri egwu egwu nke mmụọ Magic banyere nwa bebi nke mmụọ ọjọọ. N'afọ 1980, ọ gbara na The Elephant Man dị ka dibịa bekee Sir Frederick Treves, onye na-elekọta Joseph Merrick (nke John Hurt gosipụtara), nwoke nwere nkwarụ siri ike na narị afọ nke 19 London. N'afọ ahụ ọ gwakwara Shirley MacLaine na A Change of Seasons ma kwuo nke ọma "ọ bụ onye na-eme ihe nkiri na-adịghị mma nke mụ na ya rụkọrọ ọrụ". N'afọ 1983, Hopkins nwekwara...  Ajụjụ: Ònye chọrọ ịbụ onye na-eme fim?
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