Actor Anthony Hopkins reprises his best-known roles for new NFT project, says ‘Anything is possible at any age’
British actor Anthony Hopkins has gone all in on the NFT train.
Better late than never, Hopkins said in a statement yesterday announcing his new partnership with Orange cometInc, an NFT and Web3-focused agency founded by veteran Hollywood producer Dave Broome, NFL Hall of Famer Kurt Warner and Grammy Award-winning music icons Gloria and Emilio Estefan.
The project, with the title The eternal collection, will be released on OpenSea later this year, making it the latest in a series of seemingly endless celebrity drops. Holders of the NFTs will have the opportunity to meet Hopkins at an in-person event, which could be part of a broader turnaround in the NFT space after being rattled by one celebrity pump-and-dump after another in recent months. YouTuber Coffeezilla’s video on the dramatic drop in celebrity NFT prices, just released yesterday, is worth watching (spoiler alert: most are down 90 percent).
Anthony Hopkins, Eternal collection2022. Courtesy Orange Comet.
Hopkins’ work features digital animations of the actor set in futuristic scenarios, which appear to be based on some of his most famous film portrayals. In the one The night warmer the star shows his penchant for the dark and sinister, wearing a machine-clad iron face mask, a throwback to his role as Hannibal Lecter.
The two-time Oscar-winning actor said in a statement that he hopes NFTs will transfer the energy he has portrayed on film to the digital sphere. “As an artist, I am inspired by the power of art, music, cinema and the illusory dreamlike quality of life,” he said. “The Metaverse provides an incredible opportunity to connect with an audience in a completely different way.”
Hopkins is not new to the art world, it should be noted. In 2005, he started his career as a painter with a solo show at Harte International Galleries, and a self-portrait the artist created in 2009 was purchased by the Burt Britton Collection at a Bloomsbury auction in New York in 2009.
In 2020, a painting he was working on was seen behind him in a hilarious TikTok video of Hopkins dancing in his studio to a song by Canadian rapper Drake.
He added in the statement that he hopes this will be an opportunity for people to take their own art production more seriously: “Taking my art to the next level, with NFT as my canvas, is a really exciting proposition. I’m probably the oldest guy in the NFT community and on social media, proving that anything is possible at any age.”
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