Hopkins plays Vespasian, the last in the Year of the Four Emperors (69AD), in Emmerich’s new Peacock series, Those About to Die.
Independence Day director Roland Emmerich was shocked by Anthony Hopkins’s interest in his new gladiator TV series.
Emmerich doesn’t do subtle, and so Those About to Die is suitably, viscerally, bold.”
Ultimately, Those About to Die is not really for those people whose Roman Empire is the Roman Empire.
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