WE DID OK, KID by Anthony Hopkins (Audiobook)(Nonfiction)

WE DID OK, KID by Anthony Hopkins (Audiobook)(Nonfiction)
Author: Sir Anthony Hopkins
Full title: We Did Ok, Kid: A Memoir
author‑narrated with featured readings by Kenneth Branagh alongside Hopkins
Length: approximately 9 hours
Release date: November 4, 2025
Genre/Categories: Nonfiction; Memoir; Arts & Entertainment; Biography

We Did Ok, Kid is Anthony Hopkins’s candid, reflective memoir tracing his journey from a working‑class childhood in Port Talbot, Wales, through formative years on the British stage, to a six‑decade screen career marked by iconic roles such as Hannibal Lecter and his Oscar‑winning turn in The Father. Told in a spare, unsentimental voice, the audiobook revisits early insecurities, mentorship under Laurence Olivier, chance encounters with heroes like Richard Burton, and the craft insights behind performances shaped by discipline, curiosity, and instinct. Threaded through are intimate accounts of alcoholism, recovery, fractured relationships, and the late‑life peace he finds in work, music, and companionship—ultimately a conversation with his younger self about endurance, grace, and what it means to have “done okay” in the face of doubt and mortality.