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On the iconic Bollywood actor’s first death anniversary, as social media is flooded with emotional notes, remembering the artist and the way he chose
Substance abuse habit for 23 years, but then recently relapsed. >> addiction is a life-long condition, particularly when you're an opiate addict, particularly when it starts early in life and it's something that has to be treated every single day of a person's life, much the way a diabetic must take insulin. if they're not attending on a daily basis, they will slide back into using. and when somebody has had sustained sobriety and uses later in life, that is a very difficult population to treat. >> very sad story. hoffman leaves behind three young children and a long-time partner. who hahoffma...
>> i think he's a terrific actor, terrific actor. one of my favorite films was "the talented mr. ripley." great performance. very sinister. very scary. he's a wonderful actor. >> are you drawn to the darker art? >> no, it's not that. when a story is really told beautifully as was in "the talented mr. ripley," i thought matt damon's performance was spectacular, as indeed was jude law. dicaprio is a wonderful actor, great actor. >> you come from the same tiny welsh -- is it a town? >> it's quite a large town. >> a large town. >> the population would be what? >> when i was born it was about 75,00...
Think, when you compare yourself to someone like him was significant for you 35 years ago when you said, that's enough? how much more time did it bring you as a good actor, do you think? >> i thought it was the thing you did, drink and get smashed. i thought everyone did that. side of mistaken. a lot of people don't do that. burton was a big presence in my life, although i didn't know the man. he was a dark presence, celtic, came from a very large mining family up the road, up the valley. i was raised near where burton was trained as a young actor. and i never really got to know him. just met ...
And i didn't make any judgment call on any of it, because i'm there as an actor. >> would you have made this movie if you didn't pretty well believe in this? >> no, i can't have a cynicism. i used to be an atheist. i was an agnostic. >> what changed? >> some little crisis in my life some 35 years ago when i was hellbent on destruction, and i just asked for a little bit of help, and pow, bingo. >> it was the fact in that moment as an atheist, you decided to pray to god, didn't you? >> i did. i was here in new york when i was in desperate straits. i was drinking. couldn't stop, couldn't stop. it...