 In an interview with London 's Evening Standard in January 2013 , Anthony Hopkins ( who played the eponymous role in the 2012 Alfred Hitchcock biopic Hitchcock ) questioned The Girl 's portrayal of the director and the need for a film about that period of Hitchcock 's career : " I talked to Tippi Hedren one day ... and she never mentioned that ... Whatever his obsession was , she didn 't want to dwell on it ... I don 't think it 's necessary to put all that into a movie . " Speaking to The Independent later that month , Hitchcock director Sacha Gervasi said , " [ The Girl ] seems a rare one @-@ note portrayal of a man who was a little more complex than that . A lot of people , who were there , do not recognise this portrayal of him as this monster " . Danny Huston , who played screenwriter Whitfield Cook in Hitchcock , told <unk> that he believed Hitchcock would not have contested Hedren 's account of him : " Hitchcock was such a deliciously dark character that I don 't think he would dismiss what Tippi was saying as not true . " 
