Anthony Hopkins attended the Red Sea International Film Festival on Wednesday (10), where he addressed a habit that younger actors tend to adopt and that can harm their careers.
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“Young actors tend to mumble,” he said. “I know they’re trying to do Marlon Brando, but Brando was the greatest technician of all. He understood everything. He was a very intelligent man and knew how to do it,” he continued.
Marlon Brando is best known for his role as Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather. He had a very distinctive voice and sometimes deliberately mumbled to give the character more expressiveness.
Anthony Hopkins recalled a time when he warned a younger actor about speaking in a mumble.
“I said, ‘You don’t have a career if you’re mumbling. Your job in this film is to tell a story,’” he said.
“The art of this film is telling a story. It has nothing to do with makeup or showing up late on set. You’re paid to be there on time or to leave,” the two-time Oscar winner continued in his reprimand.
“So I said to the young actor, ‘You know your job is really to speak the line. The audience paid for you; otherwise, you can go to the park next door.’ I said, ‘You can’t work like that,’” Anthony Hopkins concluded.
He had already told this story on The New York Times’ Interview podcast.
“We were doing a scene together and I said, ‘I can’t hear a word you’re saying. Why are you mumbling?’” the Hollywood star asked.
“I haven’t heard from him since,” Hopkins remarked casually in the interview.
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