Anthony Hopkins has some advice for young Hollywood stars.

While appearing at an event during the 2025 Red Sea Film Festival in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, the critically acclaimed actor spoke about what he believes will be the downfall of rising actors.

“Young actors tend to murmur,” the 87-year-old star said, according to Variety. “I know they’re trying to play Marlon Brando, but Brando was the best technician ever. He understood everything. He was a very smart man and he knew how to do it.”

Brando, known for experimenting with different voices and accents, created Don Corleone’s iconic dull tone and drooping facial appearance in the “Godfather” franchise through physical transformation techniques, such as stuffing his cheeks with cotton. Brando died in 2004.

Hopkins went on to share the advice he gave an actor on set after seeing him mutter.

“I told him, ‘You have no career left if you’re mumbling. Your role in this movie is to tell a story,'” the two-time Oscar winner recalled.

Actors Anthony Hopkins (right) and Giancarlo Giannini perform in a scene from the 2001 film.
Actors Anthony Hopkins (right) and Giancarlo Giannini perform in a scene from the 2001 film “Hannibal.”

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Hopkins, who began his illustrious acting career in 1960, gushed later at the event that he had led an “exceptionally fortunate and fortunate life,” adding, “I’m getting old now, but I’m still here.”

“But I want to say, in all humility, I am still here and I don’t know why: that is the extraordinary puzzle of life,” he added. “Why are we here? That’s the question that baffles us all.”

Hopkins, who has starred in blockbusters like “The Silence of the Lambs” and Marvel’s “Thor” franchise, also shared how aging has improved his on-screen abilities.

“As you get older, you have a little more knowledge of life. When you’re young, you think you know a thing or two, but you don’t,” he told the News last year. “When you get to my age, you know a few tricks to make a living.”