{"id":536678,"date":"2026-04-17T22:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T22:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/536678\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T22:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T22:05:10","slug":"anthony-hopkins-turns-gwynedd-town-into-hollywood-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/536678\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Hopkins turns Gwynedd town into &#8216;Hollywood scene&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hundreds of people descended on a north Wales town this week to watch Oscar-winning actor Sir Anthony Hopkins during filming.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 88-year-old&#8217;s upcoming film, A Visit To Grandpa&#8217;s, follows a young boy sent to spend a summer with his eccentric grandfather on a Welsh farm, surprised by the adventures he finds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sir Anthony and the crew for the film, which is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c4g8xk5nj02o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">based on a short story<\/a> by Dylan Thomas, drew large crowds in Dolgellau, Gwynedd, bringing &#8220;a lot of excitement and a sense of pride&#8221;, said deputy mayor Nia Wyn Evans. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re used to having a lot of people around the town, but obviously we&#8217;re not used to having a production team changing our little town into a Hollywood scene,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds of people descended on a north Wales town this week to watch Oscar-winning actor Sir Anthony Hopkins&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-536678","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}