27/06/2022
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Anthony Hopkins rewarded with 2021 Oscars, but absent: a surprising explanation<

Anthony Hopkins entered the history of the seventh art a little more, on April 25, 2021, by winning the Oscar for best actor. His role in the film The Father by Florian Zeller earned him all the praise, including the famous golden statuette … but that, the 83-year-old actor learned long after everyone else. While his name echoed between the four walls of the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, he was simply asleep, as his agent Jeremy Barber explained to People magazine.

He is the oldest man to win the Oscar for Best Actor. Sunday evening, during the 93rd Academy Awards, it was however Joaquin Phoenix – winner of the previous year for having played the sad clown named Joker – who accepted this award for him. “Anthony Hopkins was in Wales, where he grew up, said the actor's agent. He was still sleeping when I woke him up at 4 a.m. to tell him the news. 'learn."

Anthony Hopkins wins Oscars 2021, but absent: a surprising explanation

Anthony Hopkins snatched victory from his colleagues Riz Ahmed, Chadwick Boseman, Gary Oldman and Steven Yeun. After spending a year in quarantine, and receiving his two doses of vaccine, he preferred to rediscover his British roots rather than attend, even by videoconference, the Oscars 2021. “It was a great relief for him, after a year so difficult, concluded Jeremy Barber. He loved his role in The Father, it is probably the performance he is most proud of, and to be the oldest man to win in this category means a lot to him. Can't wait for the reopening of French theaters to discover, in the dark, this recent performance...