Chatting shortly with
Collider's 'Frosty', legendary veteran actor Anthony Hopkins speaks on his godly all-father role as Odin, in Marvel's Kenneth Branagh-directed THOR adaption.
Based on the footage and what I’ve seen, it seems very Shakespearian. Did you notice that?
Well, it’s a big movie. Branagh is extraordinary…how he directed that and put that together I don’t know. Well it’s about Gods so you have to do a little bit of Shakespeare to play a God.
Did you read any of the comics?
No.
How did you get yourself ready to play Odin as he’s such a big character in the Marvel universe?
I saw the sets. I saw the designs and what I was going to wear and I went to the studio down in Manhattan beach and saw what they were going to put on me and all that. So when they dressed me up I thought well I’m a God now. It was a bit difficult to move around because they had steep steps…that was quite tiring as it’s about twenty or thirty pounds that you’re carrying around with you all day. And you can’t really take much of a rest. So you just come on set, and it’s a huge set, and you’re in armor and the camera is pointing and you’re a God.
Marvel's THOR storms into theaters May 6, in 3D, in almost four months!