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'Westworld' Season 1 Finale: Anthony Hopkins Talks Dr. Ford's Fate

International Business Times

Dr. Robert Ford (Anthony Hopkins) of "Westworld" met a surprising end during the season finale of the sci-fi show. After launching the new narrative he painstakingly created -- even at the cost of several lives -- Ford seemingly allowed Dolores Abernathy (Evan Rachel Wood) to kill him the same way his former partner, Arnold Weber (Jeffrey Wright), asked her to end him many years ago. When Entertainment Weekly asked Hopkins what drove Ford to do so, he said he has no clue. He's obviously a very proud man fascinated by human intelligence, the nature of intelligence, the history of the human being, the nature of consciousness, and the theory that human consciousness – as we know it today – started very recently," he said. Hopkins loves that his character has a cryptic morality, and he believes it's part of his overall allure. "He wants to create a pure dystopia or utopia, but he begins to realize somewhere in there that he's lost track of it.