Do You Recognize Anthony Hopkins as Alfred Hitchcock?
By Stephen M. Silverman
04/18/2012 at 04:05 PM EDT
Anthony Hopkins as Alfred Hitchcock
Courtesy of FOX Searchlight Pictures
Sir Anthony Hopkins won an Oscar for playing one of the biggest psychos of all time, Hannibal Lecter, in
1991's The Silence of the Lambs.
Now he's playing the man who directed the movie that had all of America screaming,
Alfred Hitchcock, at the time the Hollywood legend was making his classic 1960 film
Psycho.
Here, in this first look from
the movie Hitchcock, which began shooting last Friday (Hitch would have loved the date, Friday the 13th), Hopkins, 74, is seen as the bald, portly and droll 60-year-old.
Alfred Hitchcock
Michael Ochs Archives / Getty
Also in
Hitchcock, which is being directed by Sacha Gervasi, is Helen Mirren as the director's stalwart wife, Alma;
Scarlett Johansson as
Psycho's short-lived
leading lady Janet Leigh (who takes a famous shower);
Jessica Biel as actress Vera Miles (who played the sister of the Leigh character); and James D'Arcy as
Psycho's leading man
Anthony Perkins (who played mama's boy Norman Bates.)
