As celebrities and athletes alike enter the crypto space to support tokens or businesses, others are looking to NFTs as a method to engage with fans. Stars including Paris Hilton, Snoop Dogg, Steve Aoki, and The Notorious B.I.G. (posthumously) have introduced NFT collections.
Sir Anthony Hopkins, a two-time Oscar for acting, is the newest participant. He collaborated with the NFT digital collectible company Orange Comet to launch his series, The Eternal Collection, which includes digital images of Hopkins playing ten different archetypes throughout his five-decade film career.
Anthony Hopkins sought support on Twitter in June to solve one of the more complex puzzles of the internet era: non-fungible tokens. “I’m astonished by all the great NFT artists. Jumping in to acquire my first piece,” he tweeted, asking for recommendations from fellow Web3 fans Snoop Dogg, Jimmy Fallon, and Reese Witherspoon.
Hopkins claimed that Orange Comet was introduced to him by his wife Stella and the staff of his management firm and publisher, Margam Fine Art. He had a brainstorming session with the group’s creatives in Los Angeles. Hopkins was later taken to a studio with a green screen where they could film his body and face to create a digital likeness of him.
Hopkins’ NFTs enter the market when the NFT values and the crypto market are still far below their all-time highs from last year.
According to NonFungible’s second-quarter report, trading activity in the NFT market for the first time turned unprofitable in the second quarter.
