Hopkins Films Dylan Thomas Adaptation in Wales
Get the Culture newsletter
Daily culture — film, music, books, the trends and ideas worth your attention. Free.
- Anthony Hopkins shared a video on social media reciting verses from Dylan Thomas's 1945 poem Fern Hill while visiting Wales, captioning it 'Sunday greetings from Wales, the green and golden land of Dylan Thomas'
- A Visit To Grandpa's is based on a Thomas short story set in the Welsh countryside and follows a young boy sent to spend a summer with his eccentric grandfather on a Welsh farm
- Hopkins, 88 and a two-time Oscar winner, told Deadline the project 'allows me to return to my Welsh roots while exploring the remarkable vision and prose of Dylan Thomas'
- Director DJ Caruso called bringing Thomas's story to life alongside Hopkins 'one of the great honours of my directorial life'
- The cast also includes Doctor Who's Aneurin Barnard and fellow Welsh actress Aimee-Ffion Edwards, with production having begun in Wales this month
- The film marks Hopkins's latest Welsh-rooted project, following his Port Talbot origins and a career that has taken him from Wales to two Academy Awards
Why it matters: For Hopkins, now 88 and returning to the country of his birth, this role represents a late-career homecoming that pairs a Welsh cultural icon with a beloved Welsh literary voice, while for director DJ Caruso it marks a significant tonal shift from his Hollywood thriller work into literary adaptation.
Ask SkimNews
