Anthony Hopkins chastised young Hollywood actors for “mumbling” too much during their performances and warned them that the nasty habit could end up harming their careers. “Young actors tend to mumble,” the two-time Oscar winner said during an appearance at Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Festival on Wednesday. “I know they’re trying to do Marlon Brando, but Brando was the greatest technician of all. He understood everything. He was a very smart man, and he knew how to do it.” Recalling a conversation with an actor he thought mumbled too much, Hopkins said he told the young thespian, “You’ll have no career left if you’re mumbling. Your part in this film is to tell a story.” Elsewhere in the interview, Hopkins shared advice he received from Katharine Hepburn as a young actor when starring in his first film, 1968’s The Lion in Winter. “You don’t have to act,” the legendary actress told him. “Just be what you are. You’ve got a good head, good shoulders. Just speak the lines.” Hopkins said the experience taught him that “the stiller you are, the more compelling you are.”
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