Hopkins’s hitch with Hedren

 
12. The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock): a flock of crows terrify Tippi Hedren and a small American town.
8 January 2013

Sir Anthony Hopkins, who plays Alfred Hitchcock alongside Dame Helen Mirren as his wife Alma, is among those taking a dim view of The Girl, a BBC co-production starring Sienna Miller as Tippi Hedren, which portrays Hitch as a sex pest.

“I talked to Tippi Hedren one day because I was keen to talk to people who had worked with him, and she never mentioned that,” says Hopkins. “I saw her present the AFI award to Hitchcock, when Cary Grant and all those people were there. She made a speech and said something very nice. She was a real lady about it.

“Whatever his obsession was, she didn’t want to dwell on it. I hear it hurt her because he did insist on her being [sexually] available to him, according to Donald Spoto, and he said she’d never work again, and this could all be apocryphal, but she didn’t work much after that and it did upset her career. So apparently he was obsessed with her, but whatever it was, I don’t think it’s necessary to put all that into a movie.”

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