Tirohia te wāhanga i raro nei, kātahi ka whakautu i te pātai i muri mai i te reo kotahi me te wāhanga:  Passage: Hopkins i nervous i mua i te haere i runga i te atamira, engari mai i taua po kua okioki ia, te faahiti i tona kaiako: "Ka mea ia [Olivier]: 'Kia mahara: nerves is [sic] vanity <unk> you<unk>re wondering what people think of you; to hell with them, just jump off the edge<unk>. He tohutohu tino pai. Ahakoa tana angitu i te National, i ngenge a Hopkins ki te whakahoki i nga mahi kotahi i nga po katoa, i hiahia hoki ki te uru ki nga kiriata. I puta tana tuatahi ki te mata iti i roto i te whakaaturanga BBC 1967 o A Flea in Her Ear. Ko tana mahi tuatahi i roto i te kiriata i puta i te 1964 i roto i nga Huringa, he poto i whakahaeretia e Drewe Henley, i tuhia, i whakaputahia e James Scott me te kaiwhakaari a Jacqueline Pearce. I te tau 1968, i whai waahi ia ki te The Lion in Winter hei takaro i a Richard the Lionheart. Ahakoa i haere tonu a Hopkins ki te whare tapere (ko te mea nui i te National Theatre hei Lambert Le Roux i Pravda na David Hare me Howard Brenton me Antony i Antony me Cleopatra i te ritenga o Judi Dench me te mahinga Broadway o Peter Shaffer's Equus) ka neke haere ia mai i a ia kia kaha ake ai tana mahi hei kaiwhakaari pouaka whakaata me te kiriata. I whakaahuatia e ia a Charles Dickens i roto i te kiriata pouaka whakaata a te BBC The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens i te tau 1970, me Pierre Bezukhov i roto i te raupapa iti a te BBC War and Peace (1972). I hanga ingoa mo ia ano hei kaiwhakaari mata, i te tau 1972 i wheturangitia e ia te kaitōrangapū o Ingarangi a David Lloyd George i Young Winston, a i te tau 1977 i takaro ia i te rangatira o te ope taua o Ingarangi a John Frost i te kiriata a te Pakanga Tuarua o te Ao A Bridge Too Far. Ko enei kiriata e rua i whakahaeretia e Richard Attenborough, nana nei i whakaahua a Hopkins ko "te kaiwhakaari nui rawa atu o tana whakatupuranga". I te tau 1978 i wheturangitia e ia te kiriata whakamataku hinengaro Magic mo te maripi a te rewera. I te tau 1980, i wheturangitia e ia i roto i te The Elephant Man hei taakuta Ingarihi a Sir Frederick Treves, e aro ana ki a Joseph Merrick (i whakaahuatia e John Hurt), he tangata tino koretake i te rautau 19 i Raanana. I taua tau ano ka wheturangitia e ia te taha o Shirley MacLaine i roto i te A Change of Seasons, a, i kii rongonui "ko ia te kaiwhakaari tino kino i mahi tahi ahau". I te tau 1983, ko Hopkins hoki...  Pātai: Ko wai i hiahia ki te mahi kiriata?
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