We’ve known that Sir Anthony Hopkins will be involved in Transformers The Last Knight for a while – he is even prominently featured in one of the recent trailers. However, a recent interview on xpose.ie delves a little deeper into his role in the plot – more specifically, dealing with his experience being involved in a stunt sequence that involved a death-defying car chase.
The interview also covers his experience working with director Michael Bay, who he refers to as a “genius”.
You can check out the full interview here.
Honorbound
Yeah, I've heard that he does the serious films to gain money and credibility so that he can do stuff like this. I think that explains his presence in the Thor series.
Gordon_4
Hopkins is mad keen for this shit; I think it's one of the reasons he did 'World's Fastest Indian': he got to drive a motorbike super-fast.
CKPRIME
Well you are wrong. You're not supposed to care about a beloved and accomplished actor, he's taking screen time away from the robots!
Sideways77
Of course, a bunch of grown men that are angry that Bay didn't adapt an 80's cartoon to their liking know WAY more!
Anyway, I'm glad Sir Anthony is having fun working on the movie. He's one of my most anticipated parts of it.
03Mach1
Just another in a long line of actors who have nothing but good things to say about Bay personally and professionally. Yet somehow internet forums members know the 'real' truth. Kudos to Sir Hopkins and Michael Bay.
QLRformer
The cool old British guy gets a car chase scene, that's awesome.
Most likely Cogman.
CKPRIME
I'm guessing the "jet car" is Hot Rod?
pie125
Anthony Hopkins was thrilled by 'scary' stunts in Transformers: The Last Knight
Anthony Hopkins was thrilled by 'scary' stunts in Transformers: The Last Knight
Anthony Hopkins reckons he could have been killed in a high-speed car chase scene.
Anthony Hopkins found filming high-octane car chases in Transformers: The Last Knight scary but he just "got on with it".
The Silence of the Lambs actor has joined the cast of Michael Bay's sci-fi franchise and plays an astronomer and historian Sir Edmund Burton, who knows about the history of the Transformers, alien robots who disguise themselves as everyday machines, on Earth.
The series is known for its extravagant action scenes, car chases and explosions, and the fifth instalment is no different. Anthony was involved in a car chase scene himself and he admits it was very thrilling to film but he was aware it was quite dangerous.
"I had two American stunt drivers who were crazy," he told Men's Health magazine. "I had to sit in this kind of jet car. It was a low seat, hard to get into the damn thing. So they strap you in, you take a deep breath, here we go, and, 'Action!'
"And then there are these helicopters flying low, which is scary, and you're doing 80 miles through the Admiralty Arch (in London). Of course something could go wrong. You could get killed, I guess. But I come from the school of 'just get on with it.'"
He joins a number of returning cast members including Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, Stanley Tucci and Mark Wahlberg, whose character forms an alliance with Transformer Bumblebee, an English lord, and an Oxford professor to find out why the robots keep coming back to Earth.
The film, which is set against the backdrop of a war between the human race and the Transformers, will be Bay's last instalment.
The director has a reputation for being tough to work with but Anthony, 79, didn't find that to be the case.
"I've worked with some people who are impossible or incompetent; Michael is the opposite of that," he insisted. "He's not just competent, he's a kind of genius. Very prepared. He's impatient and irascible, but there's a great sense of humour in him."
Transformers: The Last Knight hits cinemas from 21 June (17).