In a new interview with The New York Times, Anthony Hopkins discussed his lack of a relationship with his only child

"My wife, Stella, sent an invitation [to Abigail] to come and see us," the 87-year-old actor said in the interview, published Saturday. "Not a word of response. So I think, okay, fine. I wish her well, but I'm not going to waste blood over that. If you want to waste your life being in resentment, fine, go ahead."

Hopkins shares his daughter with his first wife, Petronella Barker, from whom he split in 1972 when Abigail was a young child. He and his daughter reconnected in the 1990s, and Abigail appeared in his films Shadowlands and Remains of the Day, but the two have since fallen out of touch.

"I could carry resentment over the past, but that's death. You're not living,"

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