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Those About To Die director says it was 'FRIGHTENING' working with Anthony Hopkins on the Prime Video series and admits he was 'more nervous meeting him than Mel Gibson'


Director Roland Emmerich revealed that it was 'frightening' working with Anthony Hopkins on the latest Amazon Prime series Those About To Die.

The Peacock show, which aired its first episode on July 18, is an epic sword-and-sandal television series developed by Robert Rodat and directed by Roland Emmerich and Marco Kreuzpaintner. The German film maker shared that he had so much respect for the two time Academy Award winner he was incredibly nervous to meet him over Zoom to discuss the project The series stars Welsh actor Anthony, 86, as the ageing emperor Vespasian as well as Iwan Rheon, Jojo Macari, and Tom Hughes.

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