On a recent afternoon, Hopkins and Foster reunited over a video chat for Variety’s Actors on Actors series on stands Jan. In a way, it was like we were almost too scared to talk to each other after that.” “And as you launched into Hannibal Lecter, I felt a chill come over the room. As Foster recalls, they managed to spook themselves: “We didn’t speak too much before the actual read-through,” she says. Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins, the actors who played the lead roles, first met at a table read in London just prior to shooting. Hannibal Lecter, to catch another vicious murderer. By now, the story is familiar to most: Based on the best-selling book by Thomas Harris, the movie follows a young FBI agent, Clarice Starling, tasked with getting inside the head of a serial killer, Dr. It was a cerebral horror movie, one that exorcised our deepest fears to paint a portrait of unadulterated malevolence. Thirty years ago, “ The Silence of the Lambs” terrified audiences worldwide - along with its two stars.Īs directed by Jonathan Demme, the R-rated blockbuster didn’t just rely on blood and guts to haunt viewers’ nightmares.
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