I got to work with Banderas, and in Mexico. It's a swashbuckling romantic story. On the set of The Edge , in scenes battling the film's giant killer bear, he worked under excruciating pain from a back injury he got portraying the poor posture of Richard Nixon. Hopkins kept working through the pain, but eventually production had to be shut down while he had surgery. He was back at work in a week.
Death Takes a Holiday .
But Hopkins didn't want to talk about that because it was not far enough along. The film, set in Africa but which will be shot mainly in Florida, has Hopkins as an anthropologist who lives among gorillas and attacks poachers. Of course, the one film people have been waiting years for Hopkins to make is a sequel to The Silence of the Lambs , which often has been rumored as ready to go. The holdup seems to be that Thomas Harris, author of the book, has not finished writing a sequel. But after many inquiries about the sequel, he sounds tired of the subject.