Anthony Hopkins on the Classic Monster Performance That Inspired His Own Classic Monster Performance

In 1992, Francis Ford Coppola directed Bram Stoker’s Dracula, starring Gary Oldman as the alluring vampire and Anthony Hopkins as Van Helsing, his stake-toting nemesis. At the time, Hopkins was fresh off his Oscar-winning performance as another legendary monster: Dr. Hannibal Lecter in 1991’s The Silence of the Lambs—but he was a Dracula fan going back decades. In his new memoir, We Did OK, Kid, Hopkins looks back at his long career, including the role that would launch a thousand…