Anthony Hopkins has said he does not know if he is a grandfather because he is estranged from his daughter, fellow actor Abigail Hopkins.
Abigail - Hopkins' daughter with first wife Petronella Barker - appeared in three of her father's films, Selected Exits, The Remains of the Day and Shadowlands, but they are no longer in contact.
When asked by Radio Times if he is now a grandfather, 80-year-old Hopkins replied: "I don't have any idea."
"People break up," the stage and screen legend continued.
"Families split and, you know, 'Get on with your life'. People make choices. I don't care one way or the other."
When it was put to him that his response sounded cold, The Silence of the Lambs and Westworld star said: "Well, it is cold. Because life is cold.
"It's like John Osborne's response when someone said to him, 'Mr Osborne, your play is so offensive', and he said, 'Life is offensive'."
Hopkins told the magazine that while he enjoys working with people, he is very comfortable by himself.
"I like people but I'm very much on my own," he said. "I paint, I write music and I play the piano.
"And that's as good as it gets for me. I have no ambitions. I have no desire to prove anything.
"I'm happily married but my wife [Stella Arroyave] worries because I work too hard.
"I will go on working because what else would I do? I'll retire when my teeth and my hair fall out. What's the point in sitting and staring at the TV?
"I mean, I can't play golf, and I don't wish to."
Hopkins, who will next be seen in the lead role in BBC Two's production of Shakespeare's King Lear, was asked if he was frightened of losing his mind like the play's titular monarch.
"I don't think I will go mad now," he replied.
"The best I can say of myself is that I've tunnelled through the mountain of my life and come out the other side."
"I think once you get past the mid-70s and you're in your 80s, then you feel OK because you know your time is limited and you'd better get on with it and enjoy it," Hopkins explained.
"In my 50s and 60s, I was discombobulated. I was not sure which way to go in life - although I was a very successful actor.
"Like when I was doing King Lear with [director] David Hare [in the 1980s for the UK's National Theatre], for some reason I was angry and very confused. Well, life is strange and it is baffling. And you come to a point when you think, 'Oh shut up! Get over the past. Get on with your life. Wake up!'"
King Lear airs on BBC Two on Monday, May 28 at 9:30pm.
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