Sir Anthony Hopkins may or may not be a grandfather, he’s not interested in finding out, and it seems as if he really doesn’t care, at least according to a recent interview.
The 80-year-old actor made the startling impression during a magazine interview with Radio Times in which he was discussing his role in the upcoming BBC adaption of Shakespeare's "King Lear," The Telegraph reported.
When the conversation turned Abigail Harrison, his estranged daughter, and whether she may have had a child, Hopkins brushed the notion off.
"I don’t have any idea," he said, The Mirror reported.
"People break up. Families split and, you know, ‘get on with your life’. People make choices. I don’t care one way or the other."
Hopkins hasn’t had contact with Harrison for more than two decades.
He left his first wife and daughter, who was born in 1969, and moved in with production assistant Jenni Lynton when Harrison was 14-months-old.
Father and daughter later reconnected when she first began working as an actress, but their relationship soon became strained.
Now Hopkins doesn’t even know where Harrison lives.
"It is cold because life is cold," he noted, according to The Mirror.
"It’s like John Osborne’s response when someone said to him, 'Mr Osborne, your play is offensive,' and he said, 'Life is offensive.'"
Hopkins defined his success as an actor on a handful of pivotal roles that included his portrayal of Dr. Hannibal Lecter in "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991) and as Dr. Frederick Treves, "The Elephant Man" (1980).
He now lives with his third wife Stella Arroyave, a Colombian antiques dealer, in Malibu, California, The Daily Mail reported.
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