Oscar-winning actor Anthony Hopkins just revealed what it was like to star in Marvel’s Thor series.

“They put me in armor; they shoved a beard on me,” he told The New Yorker in a June 5 feature on the MCU’s conquering of Hollywood. “Sit on the throne, shout a bit. If you’re sitting in front of a green screen, it’s pointless acting it.”

Hopkins has appeared in three of the four Thor movies as the titular god’s father, Odin. The New Yorker notes that Marvel has become so ubiquitous it’s possible current generations will know Hopkins as King Odin of Asgard rather than Silence of the Lambs‘ Hannibal Lecter, the iconic role for which he won his first Oscar.

Before Hopkins shared his piece, the Marvel franchises have faced criticism from a number of Hollywood figures, including iconic directors Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese, who compared them to “theme parks.”

Chris Hemsworth himself recently admitted that even his son’s friends had their own criticisms of Thor: Love and Thunder: “It’s a bunch of eight-year-olds critiquing my film. ‘We thought this one had too much humor, the action was cool but the VFX weren’t as good,’” he said. “I cringe and laugh equally at it.”

While the actor admitted Thor: Love and Thunder may have gotten “too silly,” he still defended the movies for helping the film industry.

“I’m thankful that I have been a part of something that kept people in cinemas. Now, whether or not those films were to the detriment of other films, I don’t know,” Hemsworth told GQ. “I don’t love when we start scrutinizing each other when there’s so much fragility in the business and in this space of the arts as it is.”

For now, there is no stopping the Marvel machine.

The Marvels will be the last Marvel film to release this year after Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. Four more movies are slated to release in 2024, including Thunderbolts and Blade.