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Hopkins bearly escapes 'The Edge' Severe pain, surgery failed to stop him during filming

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From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Date: 19971001
Author:DUANE DUDEK

If you expect Sir Anthony Hopkins to relax with an expensive cigar, a snifter of Grand Marnier and a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray you'd be wrong. Tony is a beer and a shot kind of guy.

His hobby is taking cross-country road trips in his Mitsubishi Montero. And, even though he is a knight of the British Empire, don't call him Sir. The psychological action film "The Edge," which opened last week, marks a new chapter for Hopkins, who said he is tired of playing emotionally repressed characters, at which he excelled and for which he has been acclaimed in films like "Howards ...

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