Anthony Hopkins reveals the dreadful weight of playing a god in Thor

While discussing his upcoming dispossession thriller The Rite , fabled worker Anthony Hopkins told us a small about the universe of Thor , and the great free weight that is placed upon you when you play the god Odin … both literally and metaphorically .

Hopkins was mainly there to blab out about The Rite ( which we ’ll have more to say about in a slight bit ) , but he did share a few opinion on the world of Thor and what influences he convey to the project . He confirmed the Shakespearean undertones of the film , which is scarcely surprising considering his previous work ( including Julie Taymor ’s Titus ) and director Kenneth Branagh ’s background with epical adaptations of Henry V and Hamlet . Hopkins put it simply :

Well , it ’s about graven image . So you have to do a little bit of Shakespeare to act as a God .

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In a not precisely surprising revelation , Hopkins said he has n’t show any of the comics , but he explained that the Asgard sets Branagh create for him told him everything he needed to know about the macrocosm of the film :

I get a line the sets , I see the design , and what I was move to wear . I went to the studio down in Manhattan Beach and saw what they were going to put on me and all that . So when they dressed me up , I thought , “ Well , I ’m a god now . ” It was a bit hard to move around because they had outrageous steps , that was quite tiring as it ’s about twenty or thirty pounds that you ’re carrying around with you all sidereal day , and you ca n’t really take much of a respite . So you just arrive on circle , and it ’s a vast set , and you ’re in armor and the camera is designate … and you ’re a god .

Thor opens in the US on May 6 , 2011 . you could tick off out the trailerhere .

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