Anthony Hopkins has phrases of recommendation for younger Hollywood stars.
Whereas showing at an occasion throughout the 2025 Crimson Sea Movie Pageant in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, the critically acclaimed actor opened up about what he thinks would be the downfall of rising actors.
“Young actors tend to mumble,” the 87-year-old star mentioned, per Selection. “I know they’re trying to do Marlon Brando, but Brando was the greatest technician of all. He understood everything. He was a very smart man, and he knew how to do it.”
Brando, identified for experimenting with completely different voices and accents, famously created Don Corleone’s iconic muffled tone and sagging facial look within the “Godfather” franchise via bodily transformation strategies, equivalent to stuffing his cheeks with cotton. Brando died in 2004.
Hopkins went on to share the recommendation he instructed one actor on set after witnessing them mumbling.
“I said, ‘You have no career left if you’re mumbling. Your part in this film is to tell a story,’” the two-time Oscar winner recalled.
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Hopkins, who first kicked off his illustrious appearing profession in 1960, gushed later on the occasion that he’s led an “exceptionally lucky, fortunate life,” including, “I’m getting old now, but I’m still here.”
“But I mean, in all humility, I’m still here, and I don’t know why — that’s the extraordinary puzzle of life,” he added. “Why are we here? That’s the question that puzzles every one of us.”
Hopkins, who has starred in blockbuster hits like “The Silence of the Lambs” and Marvel’s “Thor” franchise, additionally shared how ageing has improved his on-screen abilities.
“As you get older, you have a little more knowledge of life. When you’re young, you think you know a thing or two, but you don’t,” he instructed the Related Press final 12 months. “When you get to my age, you know a couple of tricks for a living.”
