'Anthony Hopkins committed within five minutes': how I wrote The Father with Florian Zeller by Christopher Hampton

After Christopher Hampton saw Zeller's dementia drama on stage in Paris, neither language, finance nor another film adaptation could thwart their collaboration on the screenplay I first met Florian Zeller about eight years ago. It was in the foyer of the Théâtre Hébertot in Paris, where I had just watched his play The Father, directed by Ladislas Chollet, with the astonishing 88-year-old French actor Robert Hirs…

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