Anthony Hopkins may be a knighted, Oscar-winning movie star with over 50 years of acting experience, but in conversation, he’s disarmingly down-to-earth. When he called up Movieline last week to chat about his new film, James Ivory’s The City of Your Final Destination , there were no publicist go-betweens or assistants rolling the call — just a ring from an unknown number, and that familiar voice warmly saying, “This is Tony Hopkins.” You get the feeling that in his later life, Hopkins has no patience for Hollywood artifice, and it’s a mien that makes him well suited to play Destination’s Adam Gund, who’s convinced that his ex-pat life in Uruguay is so casual and relaxed that his younger lover (Hiroyuki Sanada) will surely leave him at some point for something more exciting. As Hopkins prepared to wrap his role on Marvel’s megabudgeted Thor , he took the time to discuss his work on Ivory’s film while extinguishing one rumor (that there’s been friction between him and his Thor costar Chris Hemsworth) and fanning the flames of another (that his next film with Woody Allen is headed for a Cannes berth).
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Anthony Hopkins: The Movieline Interview
