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"Sir Anthony Hopkins has revealed that he is a fan of American Idol.  The Rite star was appearing on ABC&amp;#039;s Jimmy Kimmel Live when the host played a video of Hopkins in the Fox competition&amp;#039;s audience during an Adam Lambert performance back on season eight. &amp;quot;I think it&amp;#039;s a great show because it&amp;#039;s like the American dream, isn&amp;#039;t it? These kids can get up there and do what they want and I think it&amp;#039;s fantastic,&amp;quot; he said on Tuesday&amp;#039;s show.  The legendary actor went on to say that while he had not voted last season, he had been a fan of eventual runner-up Crystal Bowersox. He also said that he liked the new judging team of Jennifer Lopez, Steven Tyler and Randy Jackson, before joking: &amp;quot;I want to go on the show and become a judge [although] I couldn&amp;#039;t be tough on them.&amp;quot;  &amp;quot;I see that J.Lo can&amp;#039;t be tough on them,&amp;quot; he added. &amp;quot;She&amp;#039;s finding it difficult to say no which is very impressive because it means she has a lot of compassion.&amp;quot; Hopkins was on the show to promote new horror movie The Rite, where he plays a priest who performs exorcisms. It opens in the US this week.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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