Screen legend Sir Anthony Hopkins lambasted a UK newspaper reporter after he was accused of being unpatriotic.
Washington, Aug. 14 : Screen legend Sir Anthony Hopkins lambasted a UK newspaper reporter after he was accused of being unpatriotic.
The British press has been criticizing the 69-year-old star ever since he took US citizenship in 2000 and moved to Santa Monica, California while retaining his knighthood and title.
Welsh-born Hopkins, who donated two million dollars to his native country's National Trust's Snowdonia Appeal, says that his critics did not even spare him when he won an Oscar for his role in 'The Silence of the Lambs'.
"They can't stop themselves, some newspaper reporters, calling and asking if I feel I have let my country down by leaving it. 'F**k off,' I told the last one. 'Why don't you go and do something for your country?'" Contactmusic quoted him as saying.
"And these pygmies talk to me of patriotism. I remember even being attacked by some newspapers when I got an Oscar! I certainly don't feel sorry for myself but I was not going to hang around (in the U.K.). That's why I keep coming back (to the U.S.)," he added.
Hopkins described the US as a 'can-do country', and said, "It's got its problems, some big, but at least they say, 'We'll give it a go'."
ANI