Anthony Hopkins Calls Starring In Marvel Movies ‘Pointless Acting’, Admitting He Loathed Being In ‘Thor’ Films

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Whether you emotion them oregon hatred them, Marvel movies are undeniably immoderate of the biggest films crossed the world. While their popularity is astir unmatched, they person garnered their stock of critics since they’ve go container bureau hits, like Martin Scorsese. Even immoderate of the stars of the movies person started to stock immoderate of their problems with the movies, including Anthony Hopkins, who didn’t person the astir glowing reappraisal of his show successful a New Yorker story, published connected Monday, June 5.

Anthony is seen arsenic Odin successful the MCU. (©Paramount Pictures/Everett Collection)

The wide-ranging portion focused connected however immense Marvel Studios’ interaction has been connected the movie industry, and the writer discussed the process of moving connected the movies with immoderate stars, including Anthony, who played Odin successful the Thor series. The Oscar-winner said that acting successful the films was elemental and silly. “They enactment maine successful armor; they shoved a beard connected me,” helium said. “Sit connected the throne, outcry a bit. If you’re sitting successful beforehand of a greenish screen, it’s pointless acting it.”

Anthony made his debut successful the first Thor film successful 2011. He reprised the relation again successful 2013’s Thor: The Dark World and 2017’s Thor: Ragnarok. He did not instrumentality for the 2022 sequel Thor: Love And Thunder. He besides didn’t look successful immoderate different MCU films.

Anthony is seen moving connected ‘Armageddon Time’ successful 2021. (Steve Sands/NewYorkNewswire/Bauer-Griffin/Shutterstock)

While helium whitethorn person recovered immoderate of his acting arsenic Odin to beryllium “pointless,” Anthony did admit that moving with Kenneth Branagh on the first Thor helped animate him to proceed acting successful the book The Story of Marvel Studios. “Branagh gave maine backmost the chops to work. I was gonna springiness it up, really. But you see, helium won’t fto you bash that,” helium said, per DailyMail. “Working with Ken was rather an injection of caller vigor into my life. He seems to person that aforesaid infectious prime connected everybody successful the crew.” Unfortunately, Kenneth didn’t nonstop the 2 sequels to Thor that Anthony appeared in.

The Silence of the Lambs star’s comments are akin to ones that Oscar-winning manager Martin Scorsese made successful 2019, wherever helium said that they were “not cinema” successful an interrogation with Empire magazine. He aboriginal clarified his comments successful a New York Times op-ed. “In galore places astir this state and astir the world, franchise films are present your superior prime if you privation to spot thing connected the large screen. It’s a perilous clip successful movie exhibition, and determination are less autarkic theaters than ever,” helium said. “For anyone who dreams of making movies oregon who is conscionable starting out, the concern astatine this infinitesimal is brutal and inhospitable to art.”

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