Veteran actor Sir Anthony Hopkins has described his work in Marvel's Thor films as "pointless acting".

The veteran Welsh actor joined the cast of Thor as Odin – father of Thor and one of the principal gods in Norse mythology – in Kenneth Branagh's film version of the Marvel comic in 2011.Later, he also appeared in 2013's Thor: The Dark World and 2017's Thor: Ragnarok.

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"If you're sitting in front of a green screen, it's pointless acting," Sir Anthony, 85, told the New Yorker.

"They put me in armour; they shoved a beard on me," he told the magazine.

"Sit on the throne, shout a bit."

Anthony Hopkins made history in 2021 by becoming the oldest person to win an Academy Award for acting, winning a second Oscar for his role as a man with dementia in The Father, BBC reports.

His performance as Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs earned the actor his first Oscar in 1992.

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Meanwhile his Thor co-star Chris Hemsworth told GQ magazine he loved the experience of making Thor movies, but joked he got sick of the character pretty quickly every couple of years, According to BBC.

"I love the fact that I've been able to do something fairly different throughout the process. Thor and 2 were their own thing, Thor 3 and 4 were a very different feel," he said.

He told the magazine that he was interested in returning to Thor and "seeing what they have to offer creatively, if there is something new" for the character. "But I really wanna do some other stuff for a while," the Australian actor said.

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