During at a press junket for
The Wolfman, Steve Weintraub of Collider.com craftily pulled some information out of Sir Anthony regarding Marvel's
Thor. Here are a few excepts from the interview:
"I’m enjoying working with Ken Branagh very much. Terrific young director. Well, he’s not that young. He’s younger than me-anyone’s younger than me. But he’s terrific and I’m really enjoying it." Has he had the chance to read any Thor comic books?
"No. I’m not a great researcher. Although I’ve got the whole Marvel comics book, but I haven’t read it yet. It’s very dense. I’m not into that culture. Like Wolfman, this is a big cultural thing isn’t it, these monster movies. I’ve never been caught up in that. What about Norse mythology?
"Yeah, I know a little bit about it. Not much though, I’m not well read in Norse mythology. More in Greek mythology and Roman mythology, but not in-but I’m learning a bit through comic strips now, about Odin. And I know that Thursday’s named after Thor and Wednesday’s named after Odin. And uh, yeah, interesting stuff. History of the Vikings is very interesting, the Viking invasions of Europe." When asked how Joe Johnston held up to the pressures on set while filming
The Wolfman, Hopkins made it clear that his is not 'wimp':
"He’s great. Joe Johnson just gets on with it. But he’s very calm. I mean, he had a lot of pressure on the film because he didn’t have much preparation. He came in to replace another director, I don’t know what that was about, but anyway, that’s the situation-and he’s very um, very focused, very amenable. He’s got the double-edged thing where he’s concentrated, he’s, uh, knows what he wants. But you can go to him and say can I try this? Yeah, do it. That’s the best director you can work with and he’s sure of himself. And there was a lot of pressure on him. He kept his patience. I saw him blow up once on set, and he just said can we have more quiet. That was all. All that patience, I said god, I don’t know how you have such patience, control is-because he had a lot of pressure on him. So he’s one of the best I’ve worked with." Be sure to visit Collider.com for the full interview
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