Anthony Hopkins happy to blast Marvel’s ‘pointless acting’ while getting paid to voice a robot knight in ‘Rebel Moon’

At this stage of his career, nobody can begrudge Anthony Hopkins from taking the occasional paycheck gig, even if he more than proved he’s still got plenty of gas in the tank by winning his second Academy Award for Best Actor thanks to an incredible performance in The Father.

If anyone ever needed any evidence that the stage and screen legend enjoys dipping his toes into nonsense, then nobody need look any further than his eccentrically offbeat turn in Michael Bay’s Transformers: The Last Knight. However, his recent criticisms of the Marvel Cinematic Universe are a touch hypocritical when you consider his contributions to Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon.

After all, if Hopkins is happy to take the superhero franchise to task for its “pointless acting,” then what does he have to say about Netflix’s incoming space opera? The recently-released official description for the character reveals that the veteran will be lending his dulcet tones to Jimmy (no, really, that’s its name), the last member of a race of mechanized knights that served under a fallen king, who ends up being recruited by Sofia Boutella’s Kora to fight in a rebellion.

If wearing a beard and an eye-patch while shouting at Chris Hemsworth isn’t real acting, then you’ve got to wonder where standing in a recording booth and pretending to be a robot fits in. As mentioned, though, Hopkins has earned the right to do whatever he wants at this point having carved out a reputation as one of the best to ever do it, but that doesn’t mean he has to sh*t where he eats.