Anthony Hopkins: 'I Try Not × to Act My Age'

THE 86-YEAR-OLD OSCAR WINNER STAYS YOUNG AT HEART THANKS TO A BUSY SCHEDULE-AND NEWFOUND SOCIAL MEDIA FAME 

- ERIC ANDERSSON

Sir Anthony Hopkins knows the secret to staying young: Just flop the two numbers in your age, and no one will be the wiser. "I'm 86. So I've reversed it. I'm 68, really," he says with a twinkle in his eye and a smile crossing his lips. The two-time Oscar winner pauses before adding, in his elegant Welsh accent, "I feel like I'm 68."

In fact, Hopkins keeps a schedule like a man who's 28. "I try not to act my age," he explains. This year alone the esteemed actor appears in three movies, including the newly released drama Freud's Last Session, in which he plays father of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud. He also recently wrapped the thriller Locked, channeling his wicked side as a man who traps a would-be-thief in his car. "I'm so lucky to be working at my age," continues Hopkins, who seems surprisingly nonplussed that he's offered roles even though he just won his second Best Actor Oscar for The Father three years ago. "They still seem to send me scripts, and I think, 'Well, good."