Anthony Hopkins is Sir Nicholas Winton

 Sir Anthony Hopkins on telling story of 'hero' Sir Nicholas Winton in One Life

A British stockbroker who helped save 669 children from the Nazis in World War Two didn't think of himself as a hero. Actor Sir Anthony Hopkins, who plays him in a new film, disagrees - as do those he helped.

Sir Anthony Hopkins joins our Zoom interview drinking a cup of English breakfast tea.

He's at his home in Los Angeles and, for him, it's the morning. The double Oscar winner regularly posts to his 4.8 million Instagram followers from this house. "Americans can't make tea," he confides. I tend to agree.

The 85-year-old screen legend has joined to discuss his new film, One Life, and his role as Sir Nicholas Winton. Sir Anthony (or Tony, as he says I must call him) doesn't want to "take credit" for the movie because Winton is "the hero of the piece".

Sir Nicholas was behind the Kindertransport trains that brought mainly Jewish children out of the former Czechoslovakia before the start of World War Two. "He didn't want to be regarded as a hero. He just hoped that we would learn from it."

Yet about 6,000 people are thought to be alive today because of what he, and other volunteers in Prague, pulled off - against the odds.

Some descendants of the Kindertransport children were in the audience when the One Life film recreated the memorable That's Life scene.

"It was really quite an emotional moment," Sir Anthony tells me. "But I think this whole story has affected me and has actually stayed with me throughout the whole of my life."

The Welsh actor was born in 1937 and was 18 months old when war was declared. He remembers "the bombing of Swansea and the air raids".

He also recalls going to London with his parents in 1945 when "the whole of Europe was in rubble". His father went to an exhibition of the shocking first photographs to emerge from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after it was liberated by British troops in April 1945. ( By Katie Razzal and Fram Martins)