>> anthony hopkins. >> yes, indeed. >> anthony hopkins played hitchcock in a 2012 movie.a half to do it because they were so -- the makeup team was so great and got nominated for an oscar. >> look at him. >> like jowls, he has blue eyes, brown contacts, different hair, intense. >> amazing. kathie lee, over to you. >> from saratoga springs which of the following is a real place, bloody springs, mississippi, screamtown, california, witch's brew kentucky, or goblintown, massachusetts? bloody springs, mississippi. >> what a darn good guess that was. >> that was a great guess. >> yeah. >> really a place? >> there is a bloody springs. it's very small in mississippi on the boarder between mississippi and -- close to alab >> you don't even know. >> i don't know. >> you don't know where it is. >> it's real, though. i'm sure people are watching from bloody springs and lovely. it was named bloody springs the rumor has it because of the civil war. >> oh, my gosh. >> yeah. fun. >> back across to kathie lee. >> good morning. lovely lady came the farthest from manhattan. author and poet

as an actor, i wanted to play those characters because as anthony hopkins said, they are no longer bound by likability. you have a character that can be so hyper normal, that you no longer have to be charismatic. we went out of our way to take away all of that right off the bat. mark designed the makeup to be very much totally opposite of who i am. thinning the air. i would not want to keep a single item of clothing. >> do you -- are you the physically aware of the fact you do not want them to see robin williams? you wanted them to see the character. >> that is why it was great to have mark, because he would monitor it very much and say that is not sy. it's all the detailed, the minutia. it sets, it is all part of it. as someone said, one day i was walking in the walmart and i disappeared. that is a great compliment. also, they didn't see sy. he disappeared and became part of it. that type of detail has been really lovely. it is the thing that you said, the more detailed you are in your work the more universal it is in the behavior and all those little things. people have come up to me a

as an actor wanting to play those characters, because as anthony hopkins said, they are no longer bound by the laws of like able, that you have a character that is, can be so, you know, in this case, so kind of normal, hypernormal and bannal in many ways, that you no longer have to be charismatic. and we went out of a way to take away all of that. right off the bat. mark designed the makeup to be very much totally opposite of who i am, thinning its hair, blonding the hair, glass, i would not want to keep a single-- close it, even the fire would go-- . >> rose: do you specifically aware of the fact that you don't want people to see robin williams, you want them to see the character. >> very much that is what we start up front that is why it was great to have mark. because he would monitor very much and says that's not sy. and it was great to have because it's about, once again, it's all the details it, the minute usualia, everything, the sets, it's all part of it. it all fits in, someone said another thing one day i was walking in wal-mart and i disappeared that is a great compliment. >>