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TIL that while filming Steven Spielberg’s Amistad, Anthony Hopkins memorised a seven-page courtroom speech and delivered it all in one go. Spielberg was so overawed he couldn’t bring himself to call him Tony and insisted on addressing him as Sir Anthony throughout the shoot.

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